What is the SQE?
Who is the SQE for?
Costs and fees
Case studies
Dates and locations
Assessment information
The assessment day
Results and resits
Due to inactivity, and for security reasons, you will be automatically logged out of your SQE account in 1 minute.
Press ’continue’ to stay logged in.
The monitoring and maximising diversity survey has been updated. Please return to the survey to reconfirm your answers and complete the new section at the end.
You must do this to remain eligible for the SQE. You will not be able to book your next assessment until you have updated your answers.
We have completed the annual review of the Functioning Legal Knowledge (the FLK) for SQE1 and SQE2. Following this, we have now published updated versions in the SQE1 and SQE2 Assessment Specifications.
Most of these changes are minor.
The updated FLK will apply to SQE assessments that take place after 1 September 2024. Therefore, the first time it will apply will be the SQE2 assessment in October 2024.
The updated specifications are:
The current FLK will continue to apply for all assessments taking place before September 2024, namely April 2024 SQE2, July 2024 SQE1 and July 2024 SQE2. This can be found in the Assessment Specifications as follows:
The aims were to:
Information on the process was published in January 2024.
Almost all the changes to the FLK are made by way of clarification or to reflect changes to law and practice. After careful consideration, two changes have been made to the area of Dispute Resolution by removing two elements of the FLK that could be considered beyond the level expected of a newly qualified solicitor of England and Wales without reference to books and notes. The changes are set out below.
The following words have been removed from: tax treatment of company distributions or deemed distributions to shareholders:
or deemed distributions
The following has been removed:
mechanisms to determine jurisdiction over an international contractual or tortious claim
The word shown in bold has been added:
case management directions for cases proceedings on the fast, intermediate or multi-track
procedure and mechanisms for effecting valid enforcement in another jurisdiction
necessity
Rename: consent
with:volenti non fit injuria
Rename: conditional fee arrangements
with:conditional fee agreements
The words shown in bold have been added:
options for the term of a lease, including break clauses
Matters that do and do not constitute “Development”
Rename: Building regulation control
with:Building regulations control
Replace: principal private dwelling-house exemption
with:Private Residence Relief
The same changes made to the SQE1 FLK, referred to above, have also been made to the SQE2 FLK (where applicable).
We have sample questions available for SQE1 and SQE2.
Learn more: FLK Annual Review