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What does Third parties mean? In legal practice, third parties are persons or organisations that are not the principal parties to a contract, dispute, or data-processing activity but may interact with or be affected by it. The term is descriptive across contexts. In data protection law it is defined: a third party is anyone other than the data subject, controller, processor, and those acting under a controller’s or processor’s direct authority (UK GDPR/EU GDPR). cookies and similar technologies: if a service permits third parties (for example, advertising, analytics or social media vendors) to set, read or access cookies or other identifiers, those third...

Introducing clients to third parties under the SRA Codes: transparency, financial benefits, fee sharing, separate businesses, conflicts and Lexcel (England and Wales)

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Practice notes

This Practice Note sets out what the SRA Code of Conduct for Solicitors, RELs, RFLs and RSLs (SRA Code for Individuals) and the SRA Code of Conduct for Firms (SRA Code for Firms) require when making introductions to Third parties.

A distinct Practice Note applies where third parties send clients to you—see: Referral and fee sharing arrangements for further detail on referrals.

It does not address scenarios where you merely instruct a third party for your client as part of their matter.

See section, Difference between introducing and instructing a third party, and the separate Practice Note: Instructing third parties.

Where appropriate, firms should also consider duties under the SRA Financial Services (Scope) Rules and SRA Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules concerning consumer credit or insurance distribution work and related activity.

See the Practice Notes below:

Insurance distribution activities—law firms
Consumer credit and law firms

Further, before introducing clients to third parties, consider whether doing so could mean you become part of a wider supply chain in practice.

Risks within supply chains, including those linked to financial crime compliance, fall outside the scope of this Practice Note entirely.

For more detail, see Practice Note: How to manage supply chain...

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