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SRA Registered Foreign Lawyer (RFL) Checklist: Eligibility, Application, Reserved Activities, Supervision and Firm Obligations (England and Wales)

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This checklist is intended to support you when applying for entry as a registered foreign lawyer (RFL), or when your firm is engaging with an RFL in practice. Please consider it carefully in conjunction with the Practice Note: Working with foreign lawyers—the registered foreign lawyer (RFL) regime.

A: Determining whether a lawyer can become a registered foreign lawyer

If all of the questions below are answered ‘yes’, it should be feasible for a lawyer to submit an application for registration as an RFL without difficulty.

  • Screening question
  • Answer/Comment
  • Is the individual a foreign lawyer? A foreign lawyer is an individual who is not a solicitor or barrister of England and Wales, yet is a member of a legal profession that is regulated in a jurisdiction beyond England and Wales, and is entitled to practise as such within that profession. Please also see Practice Note: Working with foreign lawyers—the registered foreign lawyer (RFL) regime—Becoming a registered foreign lawyer.
  • Yes/No
  • Is the lawyer a member of an approved profession for the purposes of the SRA?...
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