WHEN DO YOU APPLY ?
For undergraduate law students, the earliest point you can apply is in your penultimate year at university. For non-law students, the earliest point you can apply is in your final year. Non-law students spend a further year studying for a Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) before starting the Legal Practice Course (LPC). Graduates may apply at any time. In April 2017 the SRA announced that it would be introducing the Solicitors’ Qualifying Examination as a mandatory route to qualification for all future solicitors from a date not before 2021. There will, however, be some transitionary arrangements which mean that, provided you have at least started your law degree or your GDL by August in the year the SQE is first introduced, you will still be able to proceed with the current route to qualification.
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