Legal materials
For all stations except legal research, candidates will be provided, as part of their assessment materials, with materials that a Day One Solicitor would look up.
Candidates will need sufficient knowledge to make them competent to practice on the basis that they can look up detail later. Candidates will not be expected to know or address detail that a Day One Solicitor would look up unless they have been provided with that detail as part of their assessment materials. However, legal materials will only be provided where it is considered that a Day One Solicitor would need to refer to those materials. Sample questions and indicative answers will be published on the SQE website. For details on the legal research assessment, see Legal research.
Any other materials, such as books and notes, cannot be brought into or used during the assessments.
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This section is part of SRA: SQE2 assessment specification, which sets out the whole topic in order on a single page.