SQE SKILLS
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WHAT IS SQE1?

The SQE1 is an eight-month course that serves as the initial step toward a career as a solicitor following completion of a qualified law degree. In SQE1, you will be assessed on 'functional legal knowledge,' which assesses your application of law through multiple choice questions based on actual client-based scenarios. The exams will include the subjects covered in your legal degree or conversion course, as well as the vocational practise areas covered in stage 1 of the prior LPC path. There will be two lengthy multiple choice papers, each with 180 questions, covering all topics covered in SQE1. You must pass SQE1 in order to sit for the SQE2 examinations.

Graduates who successfully complete the course are eligible to enter the legal profession. Although the University of Law, BPP, and Kaplan Law School are the primary providers of the SQEs, the course is offered by an increasing number of schools each year. Many students enrolled in the SQEs already have training contracts lined up, subject to the completion of the SQEs. Many others enrol in the course in the hope of eventually obtaining a training contract, and so must excel on the course. Nonetheless, each year, a large number of students this year have failed or suffered miserably on this course. Study notes from highly qualified and experienced expert legal writer is certain to improve your chances of passing the SQE.

What differentiates us at Law Tutor is that we have a elite-level professional academics who can assist you with substantive skills training for your SQE's standard components, such as:

  • Business Law and Practice

  • Dispute Resolution

  • Contract

  • Tort

  • Legal System of England and Wales

  • Constitutional and Administrative Law and EU Law and Legal Services

  • Property Practice

  • Wills and Administration of Estates

  • Solicitors Accounts

  • Land Law

  • Trusts

  • Criminal Law and Practice

This also means they can help you with the more practical aspects of the SQE 2.

WHAT IS SQE2?

The SQE is not only a means of educating you about the law or procedure. To succeed as a lawyer, you must master the necessary skills. This is especially true in a profession where the distinction between solicitors and barristers is fading, allowing solicitors to become into highly polished advocates or negotiators. Firms increasingly value these abilities in order to perform more work in-house, and hence need future trainees to work diligently on them in addition to the more established solicitor competencies. The SQE2 therefore requires you to complete a number of skills assessments for which our law tutor is waiting to help you with any:

  • Advocacy: Skeleton Arguments, Applications for summary judgment, No Case to Answer, Strike Out and Relief from Sanctions

  • Interviewing and Advising: Preparing Questions, Attendance Note and Case Analysis

  • Legal Drafting: Particulars of Claim, Defence, Counterclaims and Schedule of loss.

  • Legal Writing: Legal Advice Writing, Advice, Letters to Client and Memos to Supervisor with Advice

  • Practical Legal Research: Legal Research, and Research Trail.

Because our law tutor is a lawyer he has the practical experience necessary to help you get the most out of your legal training, and our tutor has completed either the BPTC or the LPC. Not only are they experienced, but they also understand precisely what you are going through and hence how to assist you. Our tutor can provide notes, and comments as you go, or grading your legal study to demonstrate exactly where you are going wrong.

LEVEL OF GRADES

Marking is based on performance on each of the assessment criteria judged on a scale from A – F as follows:

A. Superior performance: well above the competency requirements of the assessment

B. Clearly satisfactory: clearly meets the competency requirements of the assessment

C. Marginal pass: on balance, just meets the competency requirements of the assessment

Support

You could wish to understand how to raise your grade by an entire classification or you might be aiming to raise your grade. We use prior sample questions while working with pupils to improve their writing abilities. Students gain from this method in that they have a clear grasp of what has to be done and now have examples of their own work that they can utilise in their studies.