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The core principles of criminal liability relating to the specified criminal offences listed below:
Specified criminal offences:
Definition of the offence:
General defences:
Partial defences:
Parties:
Inchoate offences:
Rights of a suspect being detained by the police for questioning:
Identification procedures:
Advising a client, including vulnerable clients, whether to answer police questions:
Procedure for interviewing a suspect under PACE 1984:
Bail applications:
First hearings before the magistrates’ court:
Plea before Venue:
Allocation of business between magistrates' court and Crown Court:
Case management and pre-trial hearings:
Principles and procedures to admit and exclude evidence:
Trial procedure in magistrates’ court and Crown Court:
Sentencing:
Appeals procedure:
Youth court procedure:
Different options for dispute resolution:
Resolving a dispute through a civil claim:
Where to start proceedings:
Issuing and serving proceedings:
Responding to a claim:
Statements of case:
Interim applications:
Case management:
Evidence:
Disclosure and inspection:
Trial:
Costs:
Appeals:
Enforcement of money judgments:
Formation:
Contract terms:
Vitiating factors:
Termination:
Remedies:
Causation and remoteness
Negligence:
Defences:
Principles of vicarious liability
Occupiers’ Liability:
Product liability:
Nuisance:
Investigation of a registered and unregistered freehold title:
Pre-contract searches and enquiries:
Law Society Conveyancing Protocol
Finance:
Acting for a lender:
Preparation for and exchange of contracts:
Pre-completion:
Completion and post-completion:
Remedies for delayed completion:
Structure and content of a lease:
Procedural steps for the grant of a lease or underlease:
Procedural steps for the assignment of a lease:
Licence to assign and licence to underlet:
Leasehold covenants:
Remedies for breach of a leasehold covenant:
Termination of a lease:
Security of tenure under a business lease:
Statutory definition of “Development”
Matters that do and do not constitute “Development”
Matters that do not require express planning permission
Building regulations control
Enforcement: time limits and the range of local planning authority’s enforcement powers.
Stamp Duty Land Tax in England and Land Transaction Tax in Wales:
Value Added Tax:
Capital Gains Tax:
Nature of Land:
Title to Land:
Co-ownership and Trusts:
Proprietary Rights:
Leases:
Validity of wills and codicils:
Personal Representatives:
Alterations and amendments to wills:
Revocation of wills:
The interpretation of wills:
The intestacy rules:
Property passing outside the estate:
Grants of representation:
Administration of estates:
Claims against estates under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975:
Inheritance Tax:
Income and Capital Gains Tax in respect of the period of the administration of an estate:
Creation and requirements of express trusts:
Beneficial entitlement:
The distinction between charitable trusts and non-charitable purpose trusts
Resulting trusts:
Trusts of the family home:
Liability of strangers to the trust:
The fiduciary relationship and its obligations:
Trustees:
Trustees’ liability:
The nature of equitable remedies and the availability of tracing in equity.
(Excluding the Listing, Prospectus, Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules and any other FCA, London Stock Exchange, market rules or codes)
Business and organisational characteristics (sole trader/partnership/LLP/private and unlisted public companies).
Legal personality and limited liability.
Procedures and documentation required to incorporate a company/form a partnership/LLP and other steps required under companies and partnerships legislation to enable the entity to commence operating:
Corporate governance and compliance:
Partnership decision-making and authority of partners:
Insolvency (corporate and personal):
Income Tax:
Corporation Tax:
Money laundering
Financial services
Candidates are required to demonstrate their ability to act honestly and with integrity, and in accordance with the SRA Standards and Regulations as follows:
Together referred to as the Code of Conduct.
See SoSC (A1) at Annex 3.
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