LLM Advanced Professional Legal Practice: SQE Preparation

Anglia Ruskin University

This module is aimed at developing the technical legal skills you?ll need within the legal field. Developing practical legal skills is crucial to the development of professionals in legally related fields irrespective of the context of practice. This module is designed to help you become critically aware of the strategies available to you and of the need to practice your skills effectively. This module gives you the opportunity to develop, practice and reflect on your own skills and practice. You?ll develop a range of skills and knowledge which will enhance your professional practice and encourage you to develop transferable skills as an integral part to growing as a professional.

This project enables you to demonstrate the ability to raise significant and meaningful questions in relation to your specialism. You'll demonstrate your ability to develop solutions to potential ethical dilemmas likely to arise in your research, draw meaningful and justifiable conclusions from information which may be complex or contradictory, and develop new approaches to changing situations.

This module aims to prepare you for the two SQE1 Functioning Legal Knowledge (FLK) assessments set by the Solicitors Regulation Authority - FLK 1: Business Law and Practice; Dispute Resolution; Contract; Tort; Legal System of England and Wales; Constitutional and Administrative Law and EU Law and Legal Services - and FLK 2: Property Practice; Wills and the Administration of Estates; Solicitors Accounts; Land Law; Trusts; Criminal Law and Practice. This module simulates the SRA SQE1 exam which is a computer-based exam testing your functioning legal knowledge by way of multiple-choice questions a single best answer and may draw on any combination of the subject areas. You?ll practice the techniques for multiple-choice exams and learn how to apply the fundamental legal principles and rules appropriately and effectively at the level required of a competent newly qualified solicitor in practice, to realistic client-based and ethical problems and situations.