SQE1 – Functional Legal Knowledge

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Welcome

Introduction to Functioning Legal Knowledge 1 Topic

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Introduction to functioning legal knowledge

Statement of Solicitor Competence 2 Topics

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About the competence statement

Statement of solicitor competence

Ethics and Professional Conduct 17 Topics | 1 Assessment

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SLK: Ethics and Professional Conduct

SRA standards and regulations

SRA Code of Conduct for Solicitors, Registers European Lawyer’s (REL’s) and Registered Foreign Lawyer’s (RFL’s)

Conflicts of interest

Managers and compliance officers in authorised firms

SRA badge – the “clickable logo”

SRA enforcement strategy

Undertakings

Client care and costs

SRA price transparency rules

Money laundering

The general prohibition – section 19 FSMA

Financial promotions – section 21 FSMA

Duties

Reporting

Obtaining Instructions

The Retainer

Ethics and Professional Conduct Assessment

Criminal Law and Practice 15 Topics | 2 Assessments

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SLK: Criminal Law and Practice

Core principles of criminal liability

Participation

Law, procedure and processes involved in advising a client at the police station

Evidence

Law, procedure and processes involved in pre-trial considerations

Law, procedure and processes involved to meet the client’s objectives

Court Bail

Law, procedure and processes involved in magistrates’ court and Crown Court trials

Road Traffic Offences

Fraud Act offences

Criminal Law Assessment

Criminal Practice Assessment

Legal System of England and Wales 3 Topics | 1 Assessment

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SLK: The Legal System of England and Wales

The Legal System of England and Wales

Sources of Law

Legal Systems Assessment

Constitutional and Administrative Law 15 Topics | 1 Assessment

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SLK: Constitutional and Administrative Law

Core Institutions of the State

Parliament and parliamentary sovereignty

Central government and accountability

The devolved institutions and their relationship with Westminster

Monarch and the Crown

Constitutional conventions

Prerogative powers

Parliamentary privilege

Legitimacy, separation of powers and the rule of law

Powers and procedures for the enactment of primary and secondary legislation

Powers and procedures for the implementation of primary and secondary legislation

Powers and procedures for the repeal of primary and secondary legislation

Public order: Processions, Assemblies, and Breach of the Peace

Human Rights and EU Law

Constitutional & Administrative Law Assessement

Judicial Review 11 Topics

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Judicial review

Nature, process and limits of judicial review

supervisory nature

Remedies

Decisions which may be challenged

Standing

Time limits

Grounds: illegality, irrationality, procedural impropriety, and legitimate expectation

Human Rights Act 1998 and the European Convention on Human Rights

ss.2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10 Human Rights Act 1998

Schedule 1 Human Rights Act 1998 the “Convention Rights”

EU Law 5 Topics

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SLK: EU Law

Sources of retained EU law

Categories/status/interpretation of retained EU law

Modification/withdrawal of retained EU law

Parliamentary sovereignty and retained EU law

Legal Services 27 Topics

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SLK: Legal services

The regulatory role of the SRA

Principles and risk-based regulation

Reserved legal activities

Professional indemnity insurance

Other regulated providers of legal services

Overriding legal obligations

The Equality Act 2010

Money laundering

Purpose and scope of anti-money laundering legislation including the international context

Circumstances encountered in the course of practice where suspicion of money laundering should be reported in accordance with the legislation

The appropriate person or body to whom suspicions should be reported, the appropriate time for such reports to be made and the appropriate procedure to be followed

Direct involvement and non-direct involvement offences, and defences to those offences under Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

Due diligence requirements

Financial services

The financial services regulatory framework including authorisation, and how it applies to solicitors’ firms

Recognition of relevant financial services issues, including the identification of specified investments, specified activities and relevant exemptions

Application of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and related secondary legislation to the work of a solicitor

Appropriate sources of information on financial services

Funding options for legal services

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Solicitors Accounts 10 Topics

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SLK: Solicitors Accounts

Transactions involving client money and money belonging to the authorised body

Operation of ledgers and bank accounts

Basic transactions, including Bills

Payment of interest

Accounting for VAT

Breaches of the SRA Accounts Rules

Accounting entries required

Obtaining and delivery of accountants’ reports

Obligations regarding record-keeping

Contract 7 Topics | 1 Assessment

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SLK: Contract

Existence/formation of a contract

Contents of a contract

Causation and remoteness

Vitiating elements

Discharge of contract and remedies

Unjust enrichment

Contract Assessment

Tort 5 Topics | 1 Assessment

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Tort and Negligence Assessment

Negligence 8 Topics

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Pure Psychiatric Harm

Dispute Resolution 33 Topics | 2 Assessments

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SLK: Dispute Resolution

Analysis of Merits of Claim

Analysis of merits of defence

Introduction to ADR

Mediation

Arbitration

Arbitration, mediation and litigation as an appropriate mechanism to resolve a dispute

Other types of ADR

ADR and professional conduct

Limitation

Jurisdiction

Pre-action considerations and steps

Choice of court

Funding and fee arrangements

Commencing, responding to or progressing a claim

Judgment in default

Discontinuance and settlement

Statements of case

Allocation

Interim applications

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Business Law and Practice 21 Topics | 1 Assessment

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SLK: Business Law and Practice

Business structures

Choosing a structure

Setting up a limited company

Joint ventures

Partnerships

Company decision making to ensure compliance with legal and statutory requirements

Business management to ensure compliance with legal and statutory requirements

Interests in proposed or existing transactions

Substantial property transactions

Loans to directors

Quasi-loans and credit transactions

Share capital

Allotment of shares and pre-emption rights

Own share purchase and redemption

Share transfers

Equity finance and debt finance

Taxation of a business and its stakeholders

Termination of a solvent business

Corporate insolvency

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Property Law and Practice 16 Topics

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SLK: Property Law and Practice

Key elements of a freehold and/or leasehold residential or commercial property transaction

Investigation of registered and unregistered freehold and/or leasehold title

Pre-contract searches and enquiries undertaken when acquiring a freehold and/or leasehold property

Steps to progress a freehold and/or leasehold transaction to exchange of contracts

Pre-completion steps in relation to freehold and/or leasehold property transactions

Completion and post-completion steps in relation to freehold and/or leasehold property transactions

Remedies for delayed completion

Grant and the assignment of a commercial lease and the law relating to their breach

Key lease covenants in a commercial lease and the law relating to their breach

Security of tenure under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 Part II

Taxation of property transactions

Land Law 7 Topics | 1 Assessment

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SLK: Land Law

Registered and unregistered land

Freehold and leasehold estates

Legal interests in land

Equitable interests in land

Landlord and tenant

Co-ownership

Land Law Assessment

Wills and the Administration of Estates 10 Topics

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SLK: Wills and the Administration of Estates

Will basics and property establishment

Distribution and validation of testate, intestate and partially intestate estates

Distribution under intestacy rules

Law and practice in connection with an application for a grant of representation

Law and practice of Inheritance Tax in relation to lifetime gifts and transfers on death

Planning, management and progression of the administration of an estate

Claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975

Law and Practice relating to personal representatives and trustees in the administration of estates and consequent trusts

Rights, powers, and remedies of beneficiaries of wills and consequent trusts

Trusts 8 Topics

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SLK: Trusts

Express trusts

Implied trusts

Fiduciary relationships/duties

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