Does my price page say everything it has to?
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Worth settling before you check anything. Use the SRA's Solicitors Register to confirm whether the body is SRA-authorised, or check whether the freelance-solicitor conditions in regulation 10.2(b)(i)-(vii) apply. Then come back and answer the first question.
These rules apply here to an SRA-authorised body, or to an SRA-regulated freelance solicitor practising in the circumstances set out in regulation 10.2(b)(i)-(vii). If neither describes you, check the rules of the body that regulates your work.
A solicitor's practising certificate is not the test here. It says the individual is regulated. It does not make the organisation an SRA-authorised body, and on its own it does not answer the freelance conditions in regulation 10.2(b)(i)-(vii).
SRA-authorised bodies and SRA-regulated solicitors: Solicitors Regulation Authority. Barristers in England and Wales: The Bar Standards Board. Licensed conveyancers: Council for Licensed Conveyancers. Chartered Legal Executives and CILEX practitioners: CILEx Regulation. Solicitors in Scotland: Law Society of Scotland. Solicitors in Northern Ireland: The Law Society of Northern Ireland.
Each body has its own current rules. We do not check those rules here, so use the regulator's own guidance before publishing.
Rule 1 does not reach this page
The price requirements only apply to the services the rules name, and only where you publish that you offer them. Nothing here requires you to publish a price for anything else.
These are the nine services rule 1.3 and rule 1.4 do name.
- Residential conveyancing (sale, purchase, mortgage or re-mortgage)
- Probate, uncontested, with all assets in the UK
- Immigration applications, not including asylum
- Immigration appeals at the First-tier Tribunal, not including asylum
- Motoring offences, summary only, one hearing at the Magistrates Court
- Employment tribunal, bringing an unfair or wrongful dismissal claim
- Employment tribunal, defending an unfair or wrongful dismissal claim
- Debt recovery up to GBP 100,000
- Licensing applications for business premises
Rule 1 only bites where you publish, as part of your usual business, that you offer one of them. The SRA's own case studies put it this way: "Only if the firm starts publishing, as part of its usual business, that it offers this service, will it have to start providing costs information."
Debt recovery is measured by the whole instruction rather than the individual debt: "It is the grand total sum of the instruction that determines this". A firm whose website says it only accepts instructions above GBP 100,000 is outside the rule.
Rules 2 and 4 do still apply to your website: your complaints wording, your SRA number and the SRA digital badge. We can check those now.
Read these first: we cannot check them from your page text
- The SRA's digital badge is displayed on your website, and both it and your SRA number sit in a prominent place.Rule 4.1
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- 4 requirements will be checked against your text
We check words, not facts. A page can state a total cost, a timescale and a fee earner's qualifications and be wrong about all three, and nothing here would see it.
SRA Transparency Rules, version in effect from 11 April 2025. Checked against the rules as published on 24 August 2026. England and Wales.
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The requirements are the SRA's, not ours
The list is the SRA Transparency Rules, the version in effect from 11 April 2025, plus the SRA's own guidance on price and service, updated 30 September 2024. Every row prints the rule it came from, so you can go and read it yourself.
The language step picks, it never writes
It does one job: decide which of your passages answers which requirement, choosing from a numbered list this page made a moment earlier. The sentence you see quoted is always a sentence you wrote. It can't hand back a sentence you didn't write, because it never hands back a sentence at all.
Two things we ask you instead
Two requirements are about where the information sits on your site rather than what it says. Nothing that reads text can answer those. So we ask you instead, and the result labels your answer as yours rather than presenting it as ours.
What the SRA Transparency Rules require of a price page
Rule 1.1 binds an authorised body, or a solicitor practising in the circumstances set out in regulation 10.2(b)(i) to (vii) of the SRA Authorisation of Individuals Regulations, that publishes as part of its usual business that it offers one of the services below. Rule 1.2 takes publicly funded work back out. The wording quoted here is the rules' own, from the SRA Transparency Rules (opens in a new tab), version in effect from 11 April 2025.
The nine services the price rules cover
Rule 1.3, for work done for individuals:
- Residential conveyancing. "The conveyance of residential real property or real estate which comprise: freehold or leasehold sales or purchases; or mortgages or re-mortgages"
- Uncontested probate, UK assets. "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"
- Immigration applications. "the preparation and submission of immigration applications, excluding asylum applications"
- Immigration appeals. "the provision of advice and representation at the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) in relation to appeals against Home Office visa or immigration decisions, excluding asylum appeals"
- Motoring offences. "the provision of advice and representation at the Magistrates Court in relation to summary only road traffic offences dealt with at a single hearing"
- Employment tribunal claims. "the provision of advice and representation to employees in relation to the bringing of claims before the Employment Tribunal against an employer for unfair dismissal or wrongful dismissal"
Rule 1.4, for work done for businesses:
- Employment tribunal defence. "the provision of advice and representation to employers in relation to defending claims before the Employment Tribunal brought by an employee for unfair dismissal or wrongful dismissal"
- Debt recovery. "debt recovery up to the value of GBP 100,000"
- Licensing applications. "the provision of advice and assistance and representation in relation to licensing applications for business premises"
On debt recovery, 'up to the value of GBP 100,000' takes in GBP 100,000 itself. The SRA's case studies add that it is the grand total sum of the instruction that determines this, so a firm whose website says it only accepts instructions above GBP 100,000 sits outside the rule.
The other scope fact firms miss: never having published that you offer a covered service keeps you out of rule 1 for that service, even where you do the work for an existing client. It is the publishing that starts the duty.
Rule 1.5: the seven things costs information must include
1.5(a) "the total cost of the service or, where not practicable, the average cost or range of costs"
1.5(b) "the basis for your charges, including any hourly rates or fixed fees"
1.5(c) "the experience and qualifications of anyone carrying out the work, and of their supervisors"
1.5(d) "a description of, and the cost of, any likely disbursements, and where the actual cost of a disbursement is not known, the average cost or range of costs"
1.5(e) "whether any fees or disbursements attract VAT and if so the amount of VAT they attract"
1.5(f) "details of what services are included in the price displayed, including the key stages of the matter and likely timescales for each stage, and details of any services that might reasonably be expected to be included in the price displayed but are not"
1.5(g) "if you use conditional fee or damages based agreements, the circumstances in which clients may have to make any payments themselves for your services (including from any damages)"
Limb (f) is three separate checks here, because the SRA's guidance lists it as three mandatory bullets: what is included, what a client might reasonably expect that is not, and the key stages with their timescales. A page routinely carries one and not the others.
One requirement comes from the guidance rather than the rule. The SRA guidance on transparency in price and service (opens in a new tab), updated 30 September 2024, says you must state on your website if you are not VAT-registered. That is why the VAT answer changes which row you get.
Rule 2.1: complaints information
"must publish on its website details of its complaints handling procedure including, details about how and when a complaint can be made to the Legal Ombudsman and to the SRA"
Three things, then, and firms usually have the first and not the other two: the procedure itself, the route to the Legal Ombudsman (opens in a new tab) with its time limits, and the route to the SRA. The SRA guidance on publishing your complaints procedure (opens in a new tab) sets out what it expects to see.
Rule 4.1: your SRA number and the digital badge
"An authorised body must display in a prominent place on its website (or, in the case of a licensed body, the website relating to its legal services, if separate) its SRA number and the SRA's digital badge."
The badge is issued to your firm and served through the SRA's partner, so nothing here draws one or checks one. The SRA's clickable logo page (opens in a new tab) says use of the logo became a mandatory requirement on 25 November 2019, and a working one shows the current date.
Rule 1.6: clear, accessible and prominent
"Cost information published under this rule must be clear and accessible and in a prominent place on your website."
Placement is a fact about your site, not about your sentences, so this is one of the two rows nothing that reads text can settle. Rule 3.1 sits beside it: a firm without a website has to make the rule 1 and rule 2 information available on request instead.
SRA transparency rules: questions firms actually ask
Two of these are questions firms really type into Google. The other six come straight from the headings and the mandatory-requirement bullets on the SRA's own guidance pages.
Do solicitors have to provide a breakdown of costs?
On the website, yes, for the services the transparency rules name. Rule 1.5 wants the total cost or an average or a range, the basis of the charges, the likely disbursements and what they cost, whether VAT applies and how much it adds, what the price includes, what it does not, the key stages with their timescales, and the qualifications of the people doing the work. That is a breakdown by any reading.
Do solicitors have to be registered with the SRA?
Solicitors in England and Wales are regulated by the SRA, but the organisation they work in isn't necessarily an SRA-authorised body. These transparency rules apply here to SRA-authorised bodies and to freelance solicitors practising in the circumstances set out in regulation 10.2(b)(i)-(vii). Barristers answer to The Bar Standards Board, licensed conveyancers to the Council for Licensed Conveyancers, CILEX practitioners to CILEx Regulation. Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own arrangements, under the Law Society of Scotland and The Law Society of Northern Ireland. Check the regulator and the practice structure first.
Which services do the SRA Transparency Rules cover?
For individuals: residential conveyancing, uncontested probate with UK assets, immigration applications and First-tier Tribunal immigration appeals other than asylum, summary-only motoring offences at the Magistrates Court dealt with at a single hearing, and employment tribunal claims for unfair or wrongful dismissal brought by an employee. For businesses: defending those same tribunal claims, debt recovery up to GBP 100,000, and licensing applications for business premises. Rule 1.1 bites only where the firm publishes, as part of its usual business, that it offers the service. Publicly funded work is out.
Which version of the rules is current?
The version in effect from 11 April 2025, made by the SRA Board on 16 December 2024. The rules commenced in December 2018, and a great deal of the compliance writing online still describes that first version. The check on this page runs against the current one and prints the version on every result.
Does the information about my team have to be on the same page as the prices?
No. The SRA's guidance says so in as many words: information on individuals or teams does not need to be on the same page as the price information, and it can sit in your biographies or your 'about us' section. That's why there is a second paste box, and why we look for your team wording there before calling that requirement missing.
What if my firm does not have a website?
Rule 3.1 says the rule 1 and rule 2 information must then be available on request in another format. The SRA's guidance adds that people should not have to hand over detailed information before they can get it. A checker that reads pages has nothing to read for a firm with no website. The obligation doesn't go away.
Do I have to say anything about VAT if I am not registered for it?
Yes. The guidance is explicit: you must state on your website if you are not VAT-registered. Answering 'Not registered for VAT' adds that as its own row, with a one-line skeleton to start from, instead of telling you to publish a rate you don't charge.
Is the SRA digital badge compulsory?
For an authorised body with a website, yes. Rule 4.1 requires the SRA number and the SRA's digital badge in a prominent place, and the SRA's own page says use of the logo 'became a mandatory requirement on 25 November 2019'. It calls it the clickable logo now. It is served through the SRA's partner and only works for a site address registered in mySRA. Pasted text cannot show it, which is why it sits in the panel at the top of the result.
SRA price transparency on a law firm website, in plain terms
The SRA Transparency Rules tell a law firm what its own website has to say about price and service. They bind an authorised body, and a solicitor practising in the circumstances set out in regulation 10.2(b)(i)-(vii) of the SRA Authorisation of Individuals Regulations, that publishes as part of its usual business that it offers one of the services the rules name. Publicly funded work is outside them.
Nine services are named. For individuals: residential conveyancing, uncontested probate where the assets are in the UK, immigration applications and First-tier Tribunal immigration appeals apart from asylum, summary-only motoring offences at the Magistrates Court dealt with at a single hearing, and employment tribunal claims for unfair or wrongful dismissal. For businesses: defending those claims, debt recovery up to GBP 100,000, and licensing applications for business premises.
Where a service is caught, rule 1.5 asks for seven things: the total cost or, where a total is not practicable, an average or a range; the basis of the charges; the experience and qualifications of the people doing the work and of their supervisors; the likely disbursements and what they cost; whether VAT applies and how much it adds; what the price does and does not include, with the key stages and their timescales; and, where you act under a conditional fee or damages-based agreement, when a client pays you themselves.
Two more rules apply to the website, whatever work the firm does. Rule 2.1 asks for the complaints handling procedure, plus how and when a client can take a complaint to the Legal Ombudsman and to the SRA. Rule 4.1 asks an authorised body to display its SRA number and the SRA's digital badge in a prominent place. Rule 1.6 adds that the cost information itself has to be clear, accessible and prominent.
The version in force now took effect on 11 April 2025. That matters more than it sounds: the rules commenced in December 2018, and most of the checklists, blog posts and vendor pages written about them still describe that first version. A page built to a superseded rulebook can be short of a requirement and look finished.
On 30 September 2024 the SRA described its own ongoing proactive checking of firm websites. Since May 2023 that work has produced 439 official warnings and 36 fixed penalty fines, and changes to over 500 previously non-compliant sites.
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