SQE1 Assessment Topics

The SQE1 assesses your functioning legal knowledge across a wide range of legal and procedural topics, covering both FLK1 and FLK2. The exam focuses on applying core legal principles and rules to realistic client-based and ethical scenarios at the level of a newly qualified solicitor. The topics assessed in SQE1 are as follows:

 

Business Law and Practice
  • Basic Concepts
  • Forms of Business Organisation
  • Legal Personality
  • Corporate Veil
  • General Partnerships
  • Limited Liability Partnerships
  • Company Formation
  • Equity Financing
  • Share Capital
  • Debt Financing
  • Borrowing Procedure
  • Dealing with Insiders
  • Class Rights
  • Majority Rule
  • Minority Protection
  • Dealing with Outsiders
  • Corporate Management
  • Duties of Directors
  • Corporate Governance
  • Statutory Requirements
  • Liquidation
  • Alternatives to Liquidation
  • Personal Insolvency
  • Business Taxation
  • Income Tax
  • Capital Gains Tax
  • Corporate Tax
  • Value Added Tax
  • Accounts and Regulation
Constitutional and Administrative Law
  • Basic Concepts
  • Sources of Constitution
  • Core Institutions
  • Parliamentary Sovereignty
  • Rule of Law
  • Separation of Powers
  • Ministerial Accountability
  • Prerogative Powers
  • Primary Legislation
  • Secondary Legislation
  • Devolution
  • Judicial Independence
  • Judicial Review
  • Procedures and Remedies
  • Limits of Judicial Review
  • Illegality
  • Procedural Impropriety
  • Legitimate Expectation
  • Irrationality and Proportionality
  • Exclusion of Judicial Review
  • Human Rights
  • Equality
  • Retained EU Law
  • Public Order Law
Contract Law
  • Basic Concepts
  • Offer and Acceptance
  • Consideration
  • Intention To Be Legally Bound
  • Certainty and Completeness
  • Terms of Contracts
  • Exclusion Clauses
  • Unfair Terms
  • Privity
  • Agency
  • Capacity
  • Mistake
  • Misrepresentation
  • Duress and Undue Influence
  • Illegality
  • Restraint of Trade
  • Performance and Breach
  • Frustration
  • Damages
  • Remedies
Dispute Resolution
  • Basic Concepts
  • Civil Claims
  • Preliminary Matters
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Limitation Periods
  • International Disputes
  • Commencing Proceedings
  • Service of Documents
  • Responding to Claims
  • Statement of Case
  • Interim Applications
  • Case Management
  • Direction Questionnaire
  • Summary Judgment
  • Disclosure and Inspection
  • Civil Evidence
  • Pre-Trial Preparation
  • At Trial
  • Offer to Settle
  • Costs
  • Enforcement and Appeal
Legal Services
  • Legal Service Providers
  • Reserved Legal Activities
  • Solicitors Regulation Authority
  • Professional Indemnity Insurance
  • Rights of Audience
  • Equality Act 2010
  • Financial Services
  • Anti-Money Laundering
  • Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
  • Funding Options
  • Legal Aid
Legal System of England and Wales
  • Common Law Tradition
  • Constitutional Principles
  • Principles of Justice
  • Sources of Law
  • Judicial Reasoning
  • Courts of England and Wales
  • Doctrine of Precedent
  • Statutory Interpretation
  • Senedd Cymru and Westminster
  • Judiciary
  • Judges
  • Legal Proceedings
  • Legal Professionals
  • Civil Justice Process
  • Criminal Justice Process
Tort Law
  • Basic Concepts
  • Types of Torts
  • Negligence
  • Duty of Care
  • Breach of Duty
  • Causation
  • Remoteness
  • Proximate Cause
  • Intervening Cause
  • Strict Liability
  • Product Liability
  • Public Liability
  • Vicarious Liability
  • Pure Economic Loss
  • Pure Psychiatric Harm
  • Employers’ Liability
  • Occupiers’ Liability
  • Intentional Torts
  • Economic Torts
  • Nuisance
  • Tort Defences
  • Remedies for Tort
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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