SRA Transparency Rules

All firms fall under certain aspects of the SRA’s Transparency Rules. Even if your firm doesn’t provide any of the legal services listed under Rule 1, you are still required to publish your regulatory information, and full complaints procedure.  If your firm doesn’t have a website, then all the information required by the Rules must be easily accessible in another format.

Our Expertise

Here at DG Legal, we have reviewed hundreds of websites from law firms across the country. We have worked with firms who have had their websites audited, and critiqued, by the SRA (see an example of a letter from an SRA Investigations Officer here) and in 2021, we consulted with the SRA to ensure that their own templates were complying with their own Rules.

From our experience, we have built up a solid understanding of how the Transparency Rules should translate onto a website in practice, and what the key markers are that the SRA look for.

We have written a short guide to the Transparency Rules, covering:

• pricing and services information
• complaints handling and what details are expected
• information about the SRA digital badge
• common areas of non-compliance
• your UK GDPR obligations relating to your website.

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