We may grant to trainees, or others required to complete the PSC, exemptions from one or more of the core elements. The exemptions can be based on experience and/or training which covers the same ground as the PSC's Written Standards. These applications need to be made to us. Following admission, you will need to have a PC before you can practise as a solicitor. You can apply for this at the same time as you apply for admission, or at a time that suits you after admission. c) proceedings under Schedule 1 to the Solicitors Act 1974 2 arising out of the Law Society's intervention in a solicitor's practice (rule 67.4).

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For NI solicitors, provided you have a Qualifying Law Degree (QLD) (which must by definition have included as one of its foundations the study of English and Welsh land law) and have been admitted as a solicitor by the Law Society of Northern Ireland, we do not require you to pass any QLTS assessments. You can apply directly for admission without needing to apply for any exemption.Decision making: Understand how we approach the requirement to act with honesty found in Principle 4 and the test we apply when deciding if a person has acted dishonestly. Conflicts of interest - Guidance Guidance: To help you understand your obligation to keep clients' information confidential. The SRA's approach to equality, diversity and inclusion - Guidance If you are a Chartered Legal Executive or Graduate of CILEx, you can claim full or partial exemption from the CPE if you have passed corresponding papers in the level six membership examinations. Further details of the available outcomes and the tests we apply can be found in our Enforcement Strategy. Guidance about sexual misconduct allegations for those we regulate and complainants considering reporting allegations of sexual misconduct to us.

The Solicitors Act 1974: knowing your rights. Does it matter The Solicitors Act 1974: knowing your rights. Does it matter

We consider some issues to be more serious than others. For example, some, such as criminal convictions for dishonesty or fraud offences, are likely to result in refusal. You can fulfil a wide range of roles. You can be an employee or manager, compliance officer, owner or shareholder of a firm regulated by us. Compliance officers, managers and certain owners must be approved by us as suitable to take up their role. Guidance on how we decide to grant or withdraw approval for non-authorised persons can be found here. Similarly, non-authorised persons may also be employed and/or supervised by individual solicitors and this can include solicitors who provide of non-reserved legal services through a practice not regulated by us (regulation 10.2(a) of the Authorisation of Individuals Regulations). b) a Master, a costs judge or a District Judge of the Principal Registry of the Family Division; or in a way that upholds public trust and confidence in the solicitors' profession and in legal services provided by authorised persons. We can decide to issue a practising certificate free from conditions, with conditions, or refuse one altogether. Pathways to admission as a solicitorYou may be a non-lawyer such as an accountant, a finance administrator or an office junior. You might also be a lawyer regulated by another legal regulator, such as a barrister or legal executive. wilfully pretend to be entitled to carry on reserved legal activities within the meaning of section 12(1) of the Legal Services Act 2007 when not so entitled or to take on or use any name, title or description with the intention of falsely implying such entitlement (section 17(1) Legal Services Act 2007). We have determined that, of the outcomes tested prior to admission, there are currently no areas of substantial difference between the law and practice of both Northern Ireland/Republic of Ireland and that of England and Wales, except those relating to the law and practice of land/property law. We have therefore agreed that: It is an offence, under sections 20 and 21 of the Solicitors Act 1974, for an unqualified person (someone who is not both on the roll and in possession of a current practising certificate) to act as, or pretend to be, a solicitor.