SRA Standards and Regulations
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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Information return and notification events
An authorised body must complete and deliver to the SRA an annual return by the date and in the form prescribed.
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SRA Accounts Rules
Payment of interest
You account to clients or third parties for a fair sum of interest on any client money held by you on their behalf. You may by a written agreement come to a different arrangement with the client or the third party for whom the money is held as to the payment of interest, but you must provide sufficient information to enable them to give informed consent.
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SRA Accounts Rules
Client accounting systems and controls
You keep and maintain accurate, contemporaneous, and chronological records to: record in client ledgers identified by the client's name and an appropriate description of the matter to which they relate: all receipts and payments which are client money on the client side of the client ledger account; all receipts and payments which are not client money and bills of costs including transactions...
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SRA Accounts Rules
Application section
These rules apply to authorised bodies, their managers and employees and references to "you" in these rules should be read accordingly. The authorised body's managers are jointly and severally responsible for compliance by the authorised body, its managers and employees with these rules. In relation to a licensed body, the rules apply only in respect of activities regulated by the SRA in...
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SRA Regulatory and Disciplinary Procedure Rules
Applications for termination of certain orders
Where a person has been: disqualified from acting as a HOLP or HOFA, or a manager or employee of a body licensed under the LSA; made subject by the SRA to an order under section 43(2) of the SA; or made subject by the SRA to an order suspending their practising certificate or registration in the register of European lawyers or the register of foreign lawyers, where there has been a material...
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SRA Regulatory and Disciplinary Procedure Rules
Disclosure and publication
The SRA may disclose or publish any information arising from or relating to an investigation, either in an individual case or a class of case, where it considers it to be in the public interest to do so. The SRA shall publish any decision under rule 3.1 or 3.2, when the decision takes effect or at such later date as it may consider appropriate, unless it considers the particular circumstances...
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SRA Statutory Trust Rules
Minimum level of funds
The SRA may set a minimum level of funds to which a beneficiary may be entitled within a statutory trust account below which it will not attempt to identify or locate potential beneficiaries on the basis that, in the opinion of the SRA, it would be unreasonable or disproportionate to do so. The level in rule 3.1 applies to the sum identified as relating to a particular beneficiary, after the...
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SRA Statutory Trust Rules
Claimants to money
Unless the SRA agrees otherwise, every claimant must submit to the SRA a claim in the prescribed form accompanied by any documentation and other evidence as may be required by the SRA, and which must include, if requested by the SRA, a statement of truth.
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SRA Statutory Trust Rules
Interim payments
The SRA may make an interim payment to a beneficiary before the full distribution of funds in a statutory trust account takes place provided that the SRA is satisfied that the payment can be made without prejudicing other claims to those funds.
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