SRA tells solicitors: explain your separate business set-up
Firms will also be allowed to refer cases to the separate business with which they are attached, but only if it is in the client’s best interests.
The client’s consent to waving their confidentiality ‘must be clear and they cannot be forced to do so’, the guidance states. This request to waive confidentiality must be clear and separate to any other terms.
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