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carry out any private work in a personal capacity, you must have appropriate professional
indemnity insurance cover and be prepared to maintain it. This may, rightly, make you
think twice about taking on private commissions and may seem unfair and harsh as it
appears to effectively block one of the traditional routes to setting up your own practice,
but it is a statutory rule and breaking it can lead to prosecution by the Professional
Conduct Committee of the ARB under the Architects Act 1997. Registered architects are
prosecuted and fined on a regular basis. You also do not want to leave yourself personally
liable to the risk of facing a claim without insurance. Declaring yourself bankrupt does
not help as this step is also ...