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SRA Indemnity Fund Rules
Indemnity limit
Save in relation to an expired run-off claim, in respect of which the provisions of Rule 8.5 shall apply, the indemnity limit shall be £1,000,000 each and every claim (including claimants' costs).
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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Effect of authorisation
If you are a recognised body or a recognised sole practice authorised by the SRA you are entitled to carry on: all reserved legal activities except notarial activities; and immigration work. If you are a licensed body you are entitled to carry on the activities set out in rule 5.1, in accordance with the terms of your licence. An authorised body may only carry on a reserved legal activity...
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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Restrictions on services provided by a recognised body or recognised sole practice
If you are a recognised body or recognised sole practice, your business may consist only of the provision of: professional services of the sort provided by individuals practising as solicitors and/or lawyers of other jurisdictions; and the services set out in annex 2 (whether or not they are also included in paragraph (a)), and if you have a notary public as a manager or employee, then...
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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 Authorisation of Firms Rules
Modification of terms and conditions
The SRA may at any time, extend, revoke or vary any terms or conditions on a body's authorisation, imposed in accordance with rule 3 or otherwise, either on the application of the authorised body or on the SRA's own initiative.
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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Restrictions on employment and remuneration of certain individuals
An authorised body must not employ or remunerate, or permit to be a manager, owner or interest holder of the body, a person: who is subject to an order under section 43 of the SA, without the SRA's written permission; whose name has been struck off the roll, or who is suspended from practising as a solicitor, without the SRA's written permission; in respect of whom there is a direction in...
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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Apportionment of periodical fees on succession
An authorised body which: has taken over the whole or a part of one or more authorised bodies; or has split or ceded part of its practice to another authorised body and wishes the SRA to take this into account in determining its periodical fee, must within 28 days of the change taking place deliver to the SRA a notice in the prescribed form.
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SRA Authorisation of Firms Rules
Restrictions on services provided by a recognised body or recognised sole practice
If you are a recognised body or recognised sole practice, your business may consist only of the provision of: professional services of the sort provided by individuals practising as solicitors and/or lawyers of other jurisdictions; and the services set out in annex 2 (whether or not they are also included in paragraph (a)), and if you have a notary public as a manager or employee, then...
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SRA Application, Notice, Review and Appeal Rules
Regulatory and Disciplinary
As set out in the SRA Regulatory and Disciplinary Procedure Rules: A decision made under rule 3.1, save for a decision to make an application to the Tribunal under rule 3.1(g). A decision made under rule 3.2(a) to impose interim conditions. 2A. A decision made under rule 7.2 that a disqualification should remain in force. A decision made under rule 9.2 to publish a decision.
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