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Guidance - what the SRA's Standards and Regulations require when acting for clients who may be affected by industrial action taken by the Criminal Bar Association (CBA). SRA Principle 2: public trust and confidence - Case studies We have statutory powers under sections 44B and 44BB of the Solicitors Act 1974 and section 93 of the Legal Services Act 2007 to require you to provide us with documents and information which we say you must give us. This includes the power to interview you about the documents and information we have asked for (Section 44BA of the Solicitors Act 1974). You will need to provide us with evidence of your qualifications and experience, translated into English, where necessary.

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This guidance is about how we regulate you if you are not authorised by us directly as an individual, but where you are involved in a firm we regulate or work for or are supervised by a solicitor.Guidance: to help explain Principle 5 and the requirement to act with integrity. Acting with honesty - Guidance c) proceedings under Schedule 1 to the Solicitors Act 1974 2 arising out of the Law Society's intervention in a solicitor's practice (rule 67.4).

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If you wish to be admitted as a solicitor, in accordance with section 3(1) of the Solicitors Act 1974 we need to be satisfied: Preparing and lodging certain documents concerning the conveyance or charging of land; Since repealed. Guidance: To help you understand your obligation to keep clients' information confidential. The SRA's approach to equality, diversity and inclusion - Guidancewilfully pretend to be entitled to carry on reserved legal activities within the meaning of section 12(1) of the Legal Services Act 2007 when not so entitled or to take on or use any name, title or description with the intention of falsely implying such entitlement (section 17(1) Legal Services Act 2007). In these circumstances, section 1A of the Solicitors Act 1974 says that the person will be deemed to be "acting as a solicitor" even if they otherwise would not be.

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b) a Master, a costs judge or a District Judge of the Principal Registry of the Family Division; or We focus on issues which present an underlying risk to the public interest and make sure that any disciplinary decision we make is a proportionate response to that risk. Our enforcement action is aimed at protecting clients and the public, maintaining public confidence in the provision of legal services, and preventing or deterring individuals and others from repeating offending behaviour. The words “the occasion is piled high with difficulty” are attributed to Abraham Lincoln when referring to the difficulties faced by both sides during the American Civil War. In disputes between solicitors and their clients (who by then are usually former clients), an assessment under that Act is also something akin to a civil war, since at an earlier point in time, both solicitor and client have been on the same side. There will then have been a falling out over fees with the unfortunate consequence that having often been working together for years, they now find themselves in a bitter dispute about the costs, with the clients believing that they have been overcharged and the solicitors feeling that their fees have been hard earned on their part. in a way that upholds public trust and confidence in the solicitors' profession and in legal services provided by authorised persons.It is an offence, under sections 20 and 21 of the Solicitors Act 1974, for an unqualified person (someone who is not both on the roll and in possession of a current practising certificate) to act as, or pretend to be, a solicitor. You can fulfil a wide range of roles. You can be an employee or manager, compliance officer, owner or shareholder of a firm regulated by us. Compliance officers, managers and certain owners must be approved by us as suitable to take up their role. Guidance on how we decide to grant or withdraw approval for non-authorised persons can be found here. Similarly, non-authorised persons may also be employed and/or supervised by individual solicitors and this can include solicitors who provide of non-reserved legal services through a practice not regulated by us (regulation 10.2(a) of the Authorisation of Individuals Regulations).

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Candidate B is an admitted Barrister of Gibraltar seeking admission through the QLTS. She applies for exemption from all of the MCT and all of the OSCE. Our external assessor recommends that exemptions be granted in part for both the MCT and the OSCE. The assessor is of the view that the candidate has demonstrated sufficient knowledge of eight of the MCT outcomes, including jurisdiction and property law, and one of the OSCE outcomes (litigation). This guidance applies to all persons who are not regulated directly by us as individuals but who are either: achieved a sufficient standard of general education (normally A-level passes sufficient to be granted admission to a full-time degree programme) then we may accept you are eligible to commence a CPE. It should be noted that a good command of both spoken and written English is required by providers for admission onto the CPE. These applications need to be made to us. If you have a character and suitability issue that we consider poses a risk, but it is a risk that can be mitigated by certain controls, we can decide to admit you and impose conditions on your first practising certificate (regulations 7.1(b) - 7.6 of the Authorisation of Individuals Regulations). fails to take into account the modern practice of solicitors of sending bills on a regular basis which are complete bills, not interim bills. That causes difficulty when you have litigation which is ongoing. The client is called upon by these provisions to challenge an interim bill within one month, if he wants to do it as of right; and if he does not challenge it within 12 months then he has to show “special circumstances” to challenge his solicitors’ bill. That puts him in an impossible position. Either he challenges his solicitors’ bill — the very solicitor who is now acting for him — and continues using that solicitor at the same time; or he has to change solicitor, all in the middle of litigation when he is facing another enemy. It may well be that the court would regard ongoing litigation as, itself, “special circumstances”.”Guidance: To explain when you are likely to be found to have breached your obligation under Principle 2 to act in a way that upholds public trust and confidence. Acting with integrity - Guidance you are a member of one of the legal professions listed in the European Establishment Directive, and