FLK2 Assessment Topics

The FLK2 (Functioning Legal Knowledge 2) assessment tests you on core legal principles and their practical application in various areas of law. This is designed to evaluate your ability to handle realistic client-based scenarios and ethical challenges as a competent newly qualified solicitor. The topics covered in FLK2 are as follows:

Criminal Law
  • Core Concepts
  • Criminal Liability
  • Strict Liability Crimes
  • Actus Reus
  • Causation
  • Mens Rea
  • Concurrence
  • Murder
  • Voluntary Manslaughter
  • Involuntary Manslaughter
  • Non-fatal Offences
  • Failure of Proof
  • Affirmative Defences
  • Theft
  • Fraud
  • Criminal Damage
  • Criminal Attempts
  • Inchoate Crime
  • Complicity
  • Joint Enterprise
Criminal Practice
  • Introduction
  • Arrival at Police Station
  • Police Interviews
  • Identification Procedures
  • Police Charge
  • Vulnerable Clients
  • Funding Criminal Litigation
  • Initial Hearing
  • Bail
  • Preparation for Trial
  • Criminal Evidence
  • Advocacy Technique
  • Summary Trial
  • Trial on Indictment
  • Sentencing
  • Criminal Appeals
  • Youth Court Procedure
Land Law
  • Nature of Land
  • Titles and Interests
  • Possession
  • Tenure
  • Estates
  • Unregistered Land
  • Registered Land
  • Settlements
  • Co-ownership
  • Severance
  • Leases
  • Assignment
  • Licences
  • Proprietary Estoppel
  • Easements
  • Profits à Prendre
  • Covenants
  • Mortgages
Property Practice
  • Basic Concepts
  • Land Registry
  • Code of Conduct
  • Property Taxation
  • Planning Permission
  • Building Control
  • Property Marketing
  • Financing
  • Joint Buyers
  • Fixtures and Fittings
  • Surveys
  • Action Following Instructions
  • Deduction of Title
  • Investigation of Title
  • Issues in Title Investigation
  • Searches and Enquires
  • Draft Contract
  • Conditional Contracts and Options
  • Mortgage
  • Deposit
  • Insurance
  • Exchange of Contracts
  • Consequences of Exchange
  • Transfer Deed
  • Pre-Completion Searches
  • Preparing for Completion
  • Completion
  • Methods of Completion
  • After Completion
  • Late Completion
  • Remedies
  • Leasehold Property
  • Granting of Leases
  • Assignment of Leases
  • Drafting Leases
  • Leasehold Management
  • Commercial Lease Rent Review
  • Landlord and Tenant Act 1954
  • Sales of Part
  • New Properties
Solicitors Accounts
  • SRA Accounts Rules
  • Client Money and Accounts
  • Guidance for Firms
  • Double Entry Bookkeeping
  • Accounting Entries
  • Valued Added Tax
  • Disbursements
  • Unusual Transactions
  • Interest
  • Property Transactions
  • Joint Accounts
  • Accountants’ Report
Trusts Law
  • Basic Concepts
  • Equity
  • Fundamental Concepts
  • Trusts
  • Declaration of Trust
  • Trustees
  • Trustee Acts
  • Bona Fide Purchasers
  • Beneficiaries
  • Trust Formalities
  • Trust Constitution
  • Promises to Create Trusts
  • Charitable Trusts
  • Private Purpose Trusts
  • Unincorporated Associations
  • Resulting Trusts
  • Constructive Trusts
  • Secret Trusts
  • Variation of Trusts
  • Supervision of Trustees
  • Breach of Trust
  • Breach of Fiduciary Duty
  • Tracing
Wills and the Administration of Estates
  • Basic Concepts and Terminology
  • Intestacy
  • Will and Testament
  • Formalities of Will
  • Revocation and Amendment
  • Construction of Wills
  • Will Drafting
  • Family Provision
  • Entitlement
  • Failure of Gifts
  • Alternative Succession
  • IHT Basics
  • IHT Exemptions and Reliefs
  • IHT Liability and Burden
  • Grant of Representation
  • Post-Death Mechanisms
  • Dealing with Estates
  • Dealing with Residuary Estates
  • Rights of Third Parties
Ethics and Professional Conduct
  • SRA Standards and Regulations
  • Complaints and Remedies
  • SRA Principles
  • Client Acquisition
  • Accepting Instructions
  • Client Care
  • Client Costs
  • Duty of Confidentiality
  • Duty of Disclosure
  • Conflict of Interest
  • Undertakings
  • Duties to Courts
  • Duties to Third Parties
  • Duties to SRA

 

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