Solicitor's Handbook 2022
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Solicitor's Handbook 2022

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eBook - ePub

Solicitor's Handbook 2022

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About this book

The Solicitor's Handbook is a comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the regulations governing the conduct of solicitors. The 2022 edition has been updated to take account of all the key regulatory developments which have taken place since the publication of the 2019 edition, in particular the bedding in of the SRA Standards and Regulations. Key changes covered in this new edition include: Beckwith, sexual misconduct, and the private lives of solicitors solicitors' undertakings after Harcus Sinclair more than 100 new guidance notes issued by the SRA revisions to guidance on conflicts of interest improper use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) cross-border practice following Brexit updated LSAG guidance on money laundering new guidance relating to SRA Accounts Rules. The book also contains guidance on the regulatory system in practice, SRA enforcement, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, the regulation of alternative business structures (ABSs), money laundering and data protection.

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Information

Publisher
Law Society
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781784462031
Edition
0
Topic
Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword to the 2008 edition
  8. Preface to the 2008 edition
  9. Preface to the 2022 edition
  10. Table of cases
  11. Tables of statutes
  12. Table of statutory instruments
  13. Table of European legislation and other international materials
  14. Table of other enactments
  15. Part 1 Overview
  16. 1. The regulatory and disciplinary landscape
  17. 2. The regulation and authorisation of business entities
  18. Part 2 The SRA Principles and Codes
  19. 3. Overview of the Principles and the Codes
  20. 4. The SRA Code of Conduct for Solicitors, RELs and RFLs
  21. 5. The SRA Code of Conduct for Firms
  22. Part 3 Other rules
  23. 6. The SRA Accounts Rules
  24. 7. Compliance officers (COLPs and COFAs)
  25. 8. Financial services regulation
  26. 9. Property selling
  27. 10. Overseas and European cross-border practice
  28. 11. Professional indemnity insurance
  29. 12. Registered European lawyers and registered foreign lawyers
  30. 13. Regulation by other approved regulators
  31. PART 4 The regulatory system in practice
  32. 14. The Legal Ombudsman
  33. 15. SRA investigations
  34. 16. Practising certificate controls and removal of a solicitor’s name from the roll
  35. 17. Intervention and orderly closure
  36. 18. Control of solicitors’ employees and consultants
  37. Part 5 The disciplinary system in practice
  38. 19. Professional misconduct, its forms and formulation
  39. 20. SRA-imposed sanctions
  40. 21. Proceedings before the SDT: (1) pre-trial
  41. 22. Proceedings before the SDT: (2) trial, sanctions, costs and appeals
  42. 23. Proceedings before the SDT: (3) appeals to the Tribunal
  43. 24. Disciplinary jurisdiction of the High Court
  44. Part 6 The regulation of ABSs
  45. 25. Alternative business structures: getting started
  46. 26. Alternative business structures: discipline and enforcement
  47. Part 7 Fraud and money laundering
  48. 27. The risks of fraud
  49. 28. Money laundering
  50. 29. Data protection
  51. Part 8 Appendices
  52. Appendix 1 – SRA Principles
  53. Appendix 2 – SRA Code of Conduct for Solicitors, RELs and RFLs
  54. Appendix 3 – SRA Code of Conduct for Firms
  55. Appendix 4 – SRA Accounts Rules
  56. Appendix 5 – SRA Transparency Rules
  57. Appendix 6 – The prescribed organisations and terms under which solicitors, RELs and RFLs are allowed to hold client money in their own name
  58. Appendix 7 – The prescribed circumstances in which you can withdraw client money from client account to pay to a charity of your choice
  59. Appendix 8 – SRA warning notices
  60. Appendix 9 – SRA guidance on new regulatory arrangements
  61. Appendix 10 – SRA guidance on publishing regulatory and disciplinary decisions
  62. Appendix 11 – CCBE Code of Conduct
  63. Appendix 12 – Council for Licensed Conveyancers Code of Conduct
  64. Appendix 13 – Regulators’ Code
  65. Appendix 14 – Legal Ombudsman Scheme Rules
  66. Appendix 15 – The Solicitors (Disciplinary Proceedings) Rules 2019
  67. Appendix 16 – The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (Appeals and Amendment) Rules 2011
  68. Appendix 17 – Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal Guidance note on sanctions
  69. Appendix 18 – Extracts from the Solicitors Act 1974
  70. Appendix 19 – Extracts from the Administration of Justice Act 1985
  71. Appendix 20 – Extracts from the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990
  72. Appendix 21 – Extracts from the Legal Services Act 2007
  73. Appendix 22 – Sources of help
  74. Index