The professional standards every solicitor must meet — the SRA Principles, the conduct rules built on them, and the boundaries of who may do what in legal work.
A solicitor's professional obligations do not stop at the office door, and a breach by a colleague can become a problem for everyone who knew about it. This chapter starts with the architecture of the SRA's regulatory framework, the seven Principles at its core, how conflicts between them are resolved, and how far they reach into conduct outside legal practice. It then examines the duty to act only where competent and what supervision and delegation demand of the solicitor responsible. Finally, it works through the business rules — referral fees, unsolicited approaches and clients pursuing criminal purposes — before setting out the six reserved legal activities, who is authorised to perform them, and the duty to report serious breaches.
