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In relation to client confidentiality, the SRA guidance states:
"The duty of confidentiality applies to information about your client's affairs irrespective of the source of the information. It continues despite the end of the retainer or the death of the client when the right to confidentiality passes to the client's personal representatives. Confidentiality will attach to all information given to you, by your client or a third party, in connection with the retainer in which you or your firm are instructed."

Based on this, and I suspect the same approach is taken by the CLC, a firm cannot confirm to others that they act for a specific client unless the client has given their consent, or the law requires it, unless the fraud exemption applies; it will be interesting to see how the CLC sees this when it looks at matters more closely!