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<p>Sharia law has no jurisdiction in England and Wales and the Government has no intention
to change this position.</p><p> </p><p>The legal profession is independent of Government
and is regulated by approved regulators for which the Legal Services Board has oversight
responsibility. The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is the independent regulatory
arm of the Law Society, the approved regulator for solicitors under the Legal Services
Act 2007. The SRA has advised that its recent guidance issued on the drafting and
preparation of wills relates to conduct issues concerning the drafting and preparation
of wills, rather than their content. At the end of that guidance, reference was made
and links attached to other sources of information, amongst which was a link to the
practice note issued by the Law Society. The SRA advise that such references are regularly
attached to their guidance and are not an endorsement of their content. The SRA advise
that the reference to the Law Society practice note has now been removed from the
appendix to its guidance note.</p><p> </p>
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