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Money missing from client account - Warning notice

Relevant to all firms and individuals we regulate but is particularly relevant to you if you are a manager of a firm or a firm's COFA or COLP.

Transparency in price and service - Guidance

To help you understand your obligations under our Transparency Rules.

Mergers, acquisitions and sales of law firms - Warning notice

Relevant to all firms and individuals we regulate who are thinking of or in the process of acquiring other law firms and seeking to sell or merge their law firm with another regulated entity

Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation (SLAPPs) - Warning notice

There is a concern that solicitors and firms are engaged in a type of abusive litigation, known as strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs), on behalf of their clients.

High-volume financial service claims - Warning notice

Solicitors must act with integrity and uphold the high professional standards that we and the public expect.

Claims management activity - Guidance

This guidance explores professional duties and key risks for solicitors, law firms and their employees when representing clients during claims.

Understanding in-house solicitors professional obligations employer - Guidance (Draft)

Guidance: This draft guidance is to help your employer understand the regulatory duties and standards you must comply with as an in-house solicitor.

Not in effect

Internal investigations - Guidance (Draft)

To help all firms we regulate and all solicitors (wherever they work) understand and manage regulatory risks and issues associated with conducting an internal investigation.

Not in effect

Reporting concerns about wrongdoing when working in-house - Guidance (Draft)

To help you understand what we expect you to do when you are concerned about actions taken or decisions made by your organisation.

Not in effect

Identifying your client when working in-house - Guidance (Draft)

This draft guidance is for in-house solicitors employed by organisations not regulated by the SRA.

Not in effect

Identifying your client when working in-house - Case study (Draft)

This case study (Draft) should be read in conjunction with the Identifying your client when working in-house guidance.

Not in effect

Reporting concerns about wrongdoing when working in-house - Case study (Draft)

Case studies (Draft) to illustrate how our expectations operate in practice

Not in effect

Sanctions regime - firm-wide risk assessments - Guidance

This guidance is aimed to help firms assess your exposure to risks associated with the UK’s sanctions regime.

Client and matter risk assessments - Warning notice

To help you understand your obligations and how to comply with them. We may have regard to it when exercising our regulatory functions

Immigration work - Warning notice

Over a period of time we have also identified risks around solicitors producing poorly drafted applications, or advising their clients to pursue totally without merit appeals of Home Office decisions through the courts. 

Supporting your client with interviews during external investigations - Guidance

This explains your obligations when supporting your client in interviews with external agencies.

Proceeds of crime - Guidance

How to prevent financial crime, understand the UK's proceeds of crime regime and what you need to do to comply with it.

Firm-wide risk assessments - Guidance

Understand how firms subject to the money laundering regulations must comply with the requirement to have a firm wide risk assessment under regulation 18.

The SRA's approach to financial penalties - Guidance

A guide for our decision makers to assist them in arriving at an appropriate financial penalty for the individuals and firms we regulate.

Decision-making in disciplinary cases - Guidance

This guidance is to help you understand how we make a first-instance decision in a disciplinary case and how we deal with an application for an internal review of that decision.