SRA Standards and Regulations
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SRA Indemnity Fund Rules
Maximum liability of the Indemnity Fund
The liability of the Indemnity Fund as stated in Rule 8.1(c) shall in no event exceed in respect of each such claim the indemnity limit for the relevant indemnity period. All claims arising from the same act or omission (whether or not made or intimated or arising out of circumstances notified during the same indemnity period and whether or not involving the same or any number of different...
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SRA Regulatory and Disciplinary Procedure Rules
The investigation process
The SRA may carry out such investigations, and in doing so may exercise any of its investigative powers, as it considers appropriate: to identify whether a matter comprises an allegation under rule 1.2, or to the consideration of an allegation under rule 3. As soon as reasonably practicable after commencing an investigation under rule 2.1(b), the SRA will inform the relevant person accordingly...
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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Temporary emergency authorisation or approval
An application for temporary emergency authorisation may be made: within seven days of any change in the management or control of an authorised body which brings into being a new unauthorised body or practice; within 28 days of the death or incapacity of a sole practitioner by a solicitor or an REL who is: the sole practitioner's executor, personal representative, attorney under a lasting...
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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Authorisation decision
The SRA may grant an application for authorisation in relation to one or more reserved legal activity. The SRA will refuse an application for authorisation if it is not satisfied that, if authorisation is granted: the applicant's managers, interest holders or management and governance arrangements are suitable to operate or control a business providing regulated legal services; the applicant...
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