SQE1 sample questions

Question 92

A solicitor in a firm believes that he has identified an opportunity to generate new work based on his personal experience of problems with his internet provider. The solicitor had signed a contract with an internet provider (‘the Provider’) for an ultrafast fibre-optic internet connection to be provided to his home. The Provider breached the contract by not performing the contract by the agreed date. The solicitor successfully negotiated significant compensation from the Provider.

The solicitor knows that some of his neighbours who live on the same street have also signed a contract with the Provider and may have experienced similar problems. He suspects that there may be other such neighbours who have also signed contracts with the Provider whom he does not know about. The neighbours include both a former client and current client of the solicitor.

The solicitor plans to write to all of his neighbours informing them of their potential legal claim against the Provider and offering them his services. A separate department within the solicitor’s firm will consider the provisions of data protection legislation, but the solicitor is considering whom he can contact without breaching his duty under the SRA Code of Conduct for Solicitors, RELs, RFLs and RSLs (‘the Code’).

According to the Code, whom (if anyone) can the solicitor contact by letter?

A. All of his neighbours.

B. None of his neighbours.

C. His neighbours who he knows have a contract with the Provider only.

D. His current and former clients and his neighbours who he knows have a contract with the Provider only.

E. His neighbours who are his current and former clients only.


E - His neighbours who are his current and former clients only.

Candidates who answered correctly: 66%


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