SRA Transparency Rules: which advertised service requires published cost information?
Ashworth & Bello is an SRA-authorised firm in Manchester. Its website advertises the following services to individual clients, none of them publicly funded: (1) administering the estates of people who have died, where the assets are all in the UK and nothing is contested; (2) personal injury claims; (3) asylum appeals in the First-tier Tribunal; (4) defending serious charges in the Crown Court; and (5) bringing claims for contested wills and disputed inheritances.
For which advertised service must the firm publish cost information on its website under the SRA Transparency Rules?
Choose one answer to see the reasoning.
Worked answer
Correct answer C: Administering uncontested estates with all assets in the UK.
THE RULE TO REMEMBER
A firm advertising a listed service, such as uncontested estate administration of UK assets, must publish prescribed cost information on its website (SRA Transparency Rules rules 1.1, 1.3 and 1.5).
SRA Transparency Rules: which advertised service requires published cost information?
Rule 1.1 of the SRA Transparency Rules requires an authorised body that publishes the availability of any of the services listed in rule 1.3 (for individuals) or rule 1.4 (for businesses) to publish cost information on its website for those services. Rule 1.3(b) lists the collection and distribution of assets belonging to a person following their death, where these are within the UK and the matters are not contested. Ashworth & Bello's uncontested estate administration service falls squarely within that description, so the firm must publish cost information for it, including the total cost or a range, the basis of charging, likely disbursements and VAT, as required by rule 1.5. The rule does not apply to publicly funded work, but none of these services is publicly funded.
Why A is wrong: Personal injury work is not among the services listed in rules 1.3 or 1.4.
Why B is wrong: Rule 1.3(d) covers immigration appeals in the First-tier Tribunal but expressly excludes asylum appeals.
Why D is wrong: Only summary-only road traffic offences dealt with at a single hearing in the magistrates' court are listed; Crown Court defence is not.
Why E is wrong: Rule 1.3(b) covers only estates where the matters are not contested.
A little more practice done.
Related questions
Updating a litigation client when the costs estimate will be substantially exceeded (Code 8.7)
Which of the following best describes the fee earner's obligation?
Equality Act 2010: no charging a disabled client for a reasonable adjustment (s.20(7))
What is the correct position on the interpreter's fees?
CFA success fees are not recoverable from the losing opponent (CLSA 1990 s.58A(6))
Which of the following is the correct answer to Callum's question?
A GOOD HABIT, DELIVERED
Tomorrow's question.
In your inbox.
One free question a day, with the answer and reasoning.
No course pitches. Just your daily practice.