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Regulator remains hopeful assessment will go ahead in November as planned

Law schools have begun welcoming their first groups of students who will go on to qualify via the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) pathway, as the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) revealed it’s “looking closely” at the options for delivering the new centralised assessments online in light of the coronavirus pandemic.

With the first super-exams scheduled to take place in early November, a number of legal education providers have officially begun their respective prep courses online.

The University of Law (ULaw) welcomed its first cohort of students on to its SQE Law Essentials Course, a part-time programme for non-law graduates to help them prepare for its SQE1 prep course. Similar to the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL), the 16-week online offering covers key topics including contract, tort, crime, land, trusts, and constitutional and administrative law. Its SQE1 prep course is anticipated to start in July/August 2021.

Elsewhere, BARBRI launched its SQE1 prep course this week, with aspiring lawyers attending their first virtual lectures. It confirmed it has 280 students enrolled so far, around half of which hold an undergraduate law degree.

The other major market player, BPP University Law School, secured the contract to provide SQE prep courses to future trainees at a group of influential City law firms known as the ‘consortium’. It also launched an SQE-slanted Law Conversion Course (PGDL) in September of last year.

Other legal education players gearing up to welcome SQEers include Nottingham Law School, the College of Legal Practice, City University Law School, QLTS School and the Law Training Centre.

News of the first SQE students comes as the SRA’s director of education and training, Julie Brannan, revealed during an online webinar that the regulator is “looking closely” at online assessment options in response to lockdown restraints, but that it remained “hopeful” they would go ahead in November as planned.

Brannan — who will speaking at The SQE Sessions, a virtual event to mark the start of the super-exam’s launch year — said:

“Even if some restrictions remain in force in late 2021 and 2022, we have demonstrated through the Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme that we can successfully deliver examinations very similar to SQE, effectively and safely. Social distancing and other protective measures were put in place to make sure that the QLTS examinations which ran in the second half of 2020 were safe for candidates.”

The SQE, which will replace the Legal Practice Course (LPC), received the green light from the Legal Services Board in the autumn.

Legal Cheek is hosting an afternoon of virtual seminars to mark the start of the SQE launch year. The SQE Sessions takes place next Thursday (28 January), and tickets are available to purchase now.

INDIVIDUAL TRAINING AND PRACTICAL GUIDANCE FOR SOLICITORS QUALIFYING EXAM ‘QLTS OSCE’

OSCEsmart

OSCEsmart is a QLTS training provider specializing in preparation only for Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). The course is developed by successful QLTS qualified solicitors and offers a unique methodology of preparation, covering:

Concise and focused materials, to save your time on making notes and focus you on the key subjects;
Lists of LPC books and manuals viewed as the main theoretical source for OSCE prep that candidates are encouraged to read; and
Practical online mock stations as per exam conditions, conducted on-line at any time from the comfort of your home or office.

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We aim to provide high quality individually tailored services and have a limited number of places available. Therefore, we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. Before being enrolled on our course, the candidates will be tested on their legal knowledge and the required standard of character and suitability, taking into account the time frame of the exam and other relevant aspects.

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Our course integrates first-hand experience of passing the OSCE
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QLTS OSCE

QLTS – The Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme is an exam for foreign lawyers to qualify as English solicitors. It is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and provided by Kaplan QLTS. The QLTS consists of two exams. First foreign lawyers have to pass the Multiple Choice Test (MCT) and further the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) [Read more on our blog].

OSCE – is a super practical exam, aims to assess lawyers as per real legal practice conditions. Approximately since 2021 the exam will be greatly improved and extended to domestic (UK) prospective solicitors, now known as the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) or super-exam.

SQE – those who have successfully completed the multiple choice of QLTS, will be able to qualify via QLTS by clearing QLTS OSCE for the next 12 months since SQE is coming into force.

Stage/Part 2 or Written Part

OSCE Prep

The QLTS OSCE is a very practical exam, where the candidates are assessed based on a real solicitor’s practice conditions. In particular, they should demonstrate their ability to:

Handle a client interview and prepare an attendance note or case analysis;
Deliver an oral client presentation or advocacy, within the courts;
Conduct legal research and complete a record sheet;
Write letters, memoranda, emails, and other documents to the clients or colleagues; and
Draft legal documents and complete different forms.

The above skills will be assessed in five practice areas: business, property, probate, civil litigation, and criminal litigation. The law also covers your substantive law knowledge from MCT or LLB/GDL e.g. contract, tort, trust, criminal law, administrative and constitutional law, professional conduct etc.

Preparation to OSCE should consist of 2 stages: study the actual law and develop your legal skills.

Theory/ law

Concise video lectures covering key issues you should know, learn, and memorize in order to succeed. Accessible from PC, tablet or smartphone
Short printable notes in a table format
Further reading guidance: LPC books, manuals, online resources, and case law
Five Online Seminar Group Sessions (OSGSs): one per each practice area, purported to develop practical skills for application of the law to the facts
Support from your tutor who can answer any questions you might have

Practice/Skills

Concise video lectures on Interview, Advocacy and Presentation, Legal Research and Writing and Drafting
Attachments providing further guidance, instructions, and samples of different documents e.g. attendance note and case analysis, research record sheet, sample drafting materials, research record sheet, research, drafting and writing mock questions
Interview, Advocacy and Presenta

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