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WHAT ARE THE RULES ABOUT APPLYING TO BE A SOLICITOR?  \nIf you want to be registered as a qualified solicitor, you need to apply to the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority (SRA) (the organisation that regulates solicitors in England & Wales) to be admitted to the roll of solicitors. This means that your name appears on the‘roll’, which is an online list of qualified solicitors held by the SRA. You also get a ‘practicing certificate’ to show you are qualified. This needs to be renewed every year to allow you to carry on practising as a solicitor. The annual individual practising certificate currently (2021-22) costs £306 and is usually funded by the employer.  \nIn September 2021, a new set of rules were introduced setting out what you need to show the SRA when you apply to be admitted to the roll. This new set of rules is called the Solicitors’Qualifying Examination (SQE) route to qualifying as a solicitor.  \nUnder the old rules, which applied to everyone before September 2021, students used to:  \n1. Get a law degree (or a different undergraduate degree plus the GDL);  \n2. Do the Legal Practice Course (LPC) and the Professional Skills Course (PSC);  \n3. Do a two-year Period of Recognised Training (Training Contract) with a firm of solicitors; and  \n4. Show that they met the character and suitability requirements of the SRA (i.e. that they were sufficiently honest and trustworthy to be a solicitor) .  \nAt the end of the two-year training contract, you (or more likely your firm, on your behalf) would then apply, and pay a fee, for you to be registered with the SRA as a qualified solicitor.  \nUnder the new rules, when you apply for admission as a solicitor you need to show that you:  \n1. Have an undergraduate degree (it does not have to be in law);  \n2. Have passed the SQE 1 and SQE 2 central assessments;  \n3. Have completed two years’ full-time equivalent of Qualifying Work Experience (‘QWE’); and  \n4. Meet the SRA’s character and suitability requirements.  \nEveryone who starts a degree (in law or in anything else) from September 2022 must take the SQE route if they want to qualify as a solicitor.  \nAnyone who had finished, started, or accepted a place on a qualifying law degree by 21 September 2021 or on the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) by 1 September 2021 has a choice: they can take the SQE route, or they (currently) have until 31 December 2032 to take the LPC (subject to institutions continuing to offer the LPC) .1  \nHere is a bit more information about the SQE route:  \nSQE 1 tests your legal knowledge by way of two multiple-choice assessments, each containing 180 questions. SQE 2 tests your practical client-facing skills, such as interviewing, advocacy and drafting. The standard for these assessments is that of a newly qualified solicitor on their first day at work. Students will usually (but don’t have to) sit SQE 1 before they sit SQE 2.  \nQWE can be collected from working in up to four organisations. The university's legal advice clinic may be one such organisation. You can collect QWE at any time, even before you sit any of the SQE  \n1 There is also the option for students who have completed the LPC to do the SQE 2 assessment and two years of QWE instead of doing a training contract.  \nassessments. You can do QWE in an organisation outside of England and Wales so long as a solicitor qualified in England and Wales is able to confirm that you have done this.  \nThere is no longer any official requirement to do a two-year training contract. Being able to collect QWE from up to four ","cbCaivKjwXA9NwVT","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivKjwXA9NwVT","pdf",385915,14,"English","# 1. WHAT ARE THE RULES ABOUT APPLYING TO BE A SOLICITOR?\n## SQE route and admission requirements\n## QWE collection and confirmation\n# 2. WHAT IS QWE?\n## Legal services and competencies\n## Qualified solicitor sign-off\n## What is not QWE","[{\"question\":\"What changes did the SRA introduce in September 2021 for qualifying as a solicitor?\",\"answer\":\"In September 2021, the SRA introduced the SQE route. Students must meet the SQE requirements and complete qualifying work experience (QWE) rather than following the earlier training-contract model.\"},{\"question\":\"What must work include for it to count as QWE?\",\"answer\":\"QWE must involve providing legal services to an identifiable person, enable development of at least two competencies from the SRA Solicitor Statement of Competence, and be signed off by a qualified solicitor.\"},{\"question\":\"Do Streetlaw-type law teaching projects count as QWE?\",\"answer\":\"Many Streetlaw-type projects do not generally count as QWE. 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