Personal injury referrals—SRA examples, flowchart and guidance


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Personal injury referrals—SRA examples, flowchart and guidance


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This Practice Note summarises guidance and examples given by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) about what may constitute a permitted or prohibited referral arrangement for personal injury matters:

The SRA guidance was published under the SRA regime 2011, but appears to apply equally to the SRA 2019 regime.

What is prohibited?

To fall foul of the personal injury (PI) referral fee ban, you must:

  1. •

    receive a referral

  2. •

    of a PI or ancillary claim

  3. •

    pay a prohibited referral fee, ie a fee for the referral itself, rather than in consideration for the provision of services or for another reason

For more guidance see Practice Notes: Personal injury referral fee—the statutory regime and Personal injury referral arrangements—SRA requirements—What does the SRA prohibit?

SRA guidance

It is clear from Solicitors Regulation Authority's (SRA) guidance that there are two circumstances in which it considers the referral fee ban will not apply:

  1. •

    there is no referral as defined by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO 2012) and the SRA Glossary

  2. •

    there

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