The SRA digital badge: what it is and where it must appear
The yellow "SRA regulated" logo on a law firm's website is not decoration. It is a compulsory, clickable proof of regulation, and checking it takes one click.
What the badge is
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) regulates solicitors and law firms in England and Wales. Every firm it regulates that has a website must display the SRA digital badge: a small clickable logo served by the SRA's own system. When a visitor clicks it, a page opens on an SRA domain confirming that the firm is regulated and showing its name and SRA number.
The requirement comes from the SRA Transparency Rules and has applied since 25 November 2019. The badge exists for one reason: it is hard to fake. Anyone can copy a logo image onto a website, but the real badge is loaded from the SRA and links back to the SRA's confirmation page for that specific firm.
How to check a badge in ten seconds
- Find the badge, usually in the website footer.
- Click it. A genuine badge opens a confirmation page on an SRA website naming the firm.
- If nothing happens, or the image links somewhere else, treat it as unverified and look the firm up on the SRA's Solicitors Register instead.
The SRA publishes regular scam alerts about websites that copy the names and SRA numbers of genuine firms. The clickable badge and the register are the two checks that copied logos cannot pass.
How many firm websites actually show it
We scan the public websites of SRA regulated firms for the badge and the other information the Transparency Rules require. Our transparency statistics show what share of scanned firm websites displayed the badge, nationally and by town, and the checks by town pages show the result for individual firms.
Automated findings from public pages only. This is not a legal opinion.