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