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The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has published guidance on terminating client retainers, clarifying the circumstances in which solicitors and...
This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes changes to the UK financial sanctions framework, the SRA’s upcoming July 2026...
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has announced that its annual anti-money laundering (AML) and sanctions data collection exercise is...
Corporate Crime analysis: In this update, corporate crime experts Elliott Kenton, partner, and James Camidge, solicitor, at Weightmans, distil the...
What is a solicitor's undertaking?An undertaking is a commitment by a solicitor to do something. It can be enforced against the solicitor by the...
In what circumstances might a solicitor be able to contact another lawyer's client directly?The current SRA Standards and Regulations (STaR) are...
SRA Code of Conduct for individuals and firmsThis Practice Note provides guidance on the SRA Codes of Conduct, contained in the SRA Standards and...
Acting for yourself, friends and familyThis Practice Note covers considerations where a law firm wishes to act for one of its own partners or...
Can I charge a client for retrieving and or returning their file?This Q&A deals with the common question: can I charge a client for retrieving and/or returning their file? The answer may well depend on why the client is making the request.There do not appear to be any SRA requirements, but the
In what circumstances might a solicitor be able to contact another lawyer's client directly?The current SRA Standards and Regulations (STaR) are silent as to whether a solicitor is entitled to contact the client of opposing solicitors in any circumstances, though to do so runs the risk of a breach
Priority between loss reliefs in loss making companiesWhy does it matter?A company that is a member of a group and has incurred any of the types of losses available for surrender by way of group relief may, without any further rules, have more than one way in which to use the loss. There are a
If a rentcharge is shown as being informally exonerated on title information, does this apply to the current registered owner? Or does the informal exoneration only apply to the parties to the document which informally exonerated the rentcharge?This Q&A considers the situation where, at some
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