Solicitors and the Accounts Rules

Professor Peter Camp is a solicitor and visiting professor (Chair of Ethics) at The College of Law. He is principal of Educational & Professional Services which provides training and consultancy services to the solicitors' and accountants' professions. He is a former member of the Law Society's Editorial Board (which was responsible for the preparation of the Solicitors' Code of Conduct). He is also author of Companion to the Solicitors' Code of Conduct, 2nd Edition (Law Society, 2009), Solicitors and Financial Services, 3rd Edition (Law Society, 2002), Solicitors and Money Laundering, 3rd Edition (Law Society, 2008), and General Editor of the Legal Compliance Bulletin (Law Society, 2009).

1. Solicitors' Accounts Rules 1998: an overview; 2. Solicitors' Accounts Rules 1998; 3. Client account and client money; 4. Client money: use of client account; 5. Client money withheld from client account; 6. Operation of client's own account: rule 11; 7. Trust money; 8. Office money; 9. Costs and VAT; 10. Interest; 11. Accounting systems and records; 12. Accountants' reports; 13. Practical application; 14. Money laundering; Appendices.