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Files - Charging for Lending or Delivering Files, Titles and other Papers

Category: Guidance
Where a solicitor is asked to lend titles or other documents to another solicitor a fee may properly be charged for such lending to cover both the delivery and return of the documents

Fixed Price Offers

Category: Guidance
The use of fixed price offers should be considered carefully.

Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)

Category: Advice and Information
FATCA applies to any financial institution that pays money to a US taxpayer anywhere in the world.

Form of Business Accounts and Taxation

Category: Guidance
The form in which a solicitor presents a business account is a matter for the solicitor's personal preference but if the person liable to pay requires details, the solicitor must give a narrative or summary sufficient to indicate the nature and the extent of the work done.

Gazumping, Gazundering and Closing Dates

Category: Guidance
This guidance applies equally to solicitors acting as estate agents as well as solicitors acting in the conveyancing.

Guidance on conflict of interest issues regarding guarantees

Category: Guidance
Guidance on conflict of interest issues in relation to guarantees.

Guidance on Outsourcing

Category: Guidance
Outsourcing of (1) business operational functions such as HR, payroll and Cashroom and (2) aspects of legal service provision such as legal research and document production

Guidance on Referral of Clients for Financial Advice

Category: Guidance
Referral of clients for financial advice from 1 January 2013

Guidance re Non face-to-face Notarisation

Category: Guidance
The provisions that were in place in the Coronavirus (Scotland) (No2) Act 2020 Schedule 4, part 7 have now been incorporated into the Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995.

Home Reports

Category: Guidance
Liability for Information Contained in Property Questionnaire Solicitors should make clear to selling clients completing such questionnaires that responsibility for the accuracy and truthfulness of those questionnaires rests with the client.

Identifying Mortgage Fraud

Category: Advice and Information
The recent slow down in the UK property market has exposed a rise in mortgage fraud by organised criminals and the potential vulnerability of professionals to be exploited by organised crime syndicates.

Immigration Practitioners

Category: Guidance
The following guidance constitutes an amplification of the standard of practice that the Society considers essential for the compliance with the rules of professional conduct when undertaking immigration, nationality and asylum work

Incidental Financial Business

Category: Rule
This rule 2 makes provision for the carrying on by practice units of incidental financial business.

Incidental Financial Business Forms

Category: Forms and Fees
There are two Incidental Financial Business Forms

Incidental Financial Business Generally

Category: Guidance
An individual solicitor or firm of solicitors can undertake certain regulated activities and thereby be exempt from the requirement to be authorised by the FSA if that solicitor/firm is licensed by the Society under Part XX of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.

Incorporated Practice Form

Category: Forms and Fees
Application for Recognition as an Incorporated Practice

Incorporated Practices

Category: Rule
Subject to the provisions of rule 5, you may trade as a body corporate in terms of section 34(1A) of the 1980 Act provided

Incorporated Practices – Applying for recognition

Category: Advice and Information
Advice and Information on Applying for Recognition as an Incorporated Practice

Incorporated Practices Guidance

Category: Guidance
Guidance on incorporated practice rules at D5

Independence - outsourcing

Category: Guidance
Outsourcers should give independent advice

Independence, Rule B1.3

Category: Rule
You must give independent advice free from external influences or personal interests which are inconsistent with these standards.

Industrial Action

Category: Rule
Subject to rules 8.3.3 and 8.3.4, you may take industrial action.

Instruction of Advocates and Solicitor Advocates in the Superior Courts

Category: Guidance
This guidance is designed as a reminder of the interlocking framework of rules that apply when advising a client on the choice of representation where appearance is required in the superior courts.

Interest on Invested Funds

Category: Guidance
Unless agreed otherwise and set out in Terms of Business or a separate letter which provides either that no interest will be earned because of current bank interest rates, or that some of the interest will be retained by the practice unit, then the matter is covered by Rule B6.10 (the Accounts etc rules).
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