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Disciplinary procedures


How we make decisions and the criteria we apply - Guidance

To help you understand the overarching principles that guide us when we make regulatory decisions and the criteria we apply.

How we recover our costs - Guidance

To help you understand our approach to recovering money due to us as a result of regulatory action and litigation.

Recovering costs and payments from third parties - Guidance

To help you understand when and how we recover costs and payments from third parties following an intervention.

How we gather evidence in our regulatory and disciplinary investigations - Guidance

Understand how we gather evidence, the investigatory powers we have to gather evidence and how we can use those powers.

How we approach decisions to intervene - Guidance

We explain how we approach the decision to intervene into a solicitor’s firm or practice.

Agreeing regulatory and disciplinary outcomes - Guidance

To help you understand when we might agree to a regulatory and disciplinary outcome by way of a Regulatory Settlement Agreement.

Decision-making, reviews and attendance procedures - Guidance

To help you understand how we make a first instance decision and how we deal with an application for an internal review of that decision.

The Prohibition of referral fees in LASPO 56 60 - Guidance

An overview of the approach we will adopt in determining whether a regulated person has paid or received a referral fee contrary to section 56 of LASPO.

If we are investigating you - Guidance

An oversight of how we investigate allegations of a breach of our Standards and Regulations.

Publishing regulatory and disciplinary decisions - Guidance

Understand the approach we take when deciding whether to publish regulatory and disciplinary decisions on our website.