Following stakeholder feedback on drafts published earlier this year, we have issued a range of new guidance materials designed to directly support the 34,500 plus solicitors working in-house across ...
We set the rules that this firm and the solicitors who work for it must follow and will take action if these rules are broken. If you have concerns about the service you receive you can also make a ...
As part of our ongoing review of consumer protection arrangements in the legal sector, we are consulting on potential changes to how and when law firms handle client money, and how this money is ...
We have launched a review of our overall approach to protecting consumers who place their trust in regulated law firms – our consumer protection review. Our public consultation on the subject of ...
This guidance does not set out any new regulatory standards or requirements beyond those in our current Standards and Regulations. We will have regard to it when exercising our regulatory functions.
An independent report into the overrepresentation of Black, Asian and minority ethnic solicitors in the early stages of our enforcement process has found a complex issue with no single or simple ...
The general conditions which apply to licensed bodies contained in Rule 8 of the SRA Authorisation Rules for Legal Services Bodies and Licensable Bodies as applicable. Any obligation which may from ...
Our rules aim to uphold high professional standards. We insist that solicitors and firms in England and Wales report serious breaches of our rules to us. But we also need the public, clients and ...