SQE1 Essentials

The whole of Ethics and Professional Conduct as the SRA examines it - every line of the assessment specification on its own revision sheet.

This is not a textbook. It is a deck of revision sheets for candidates who already have common law training and who need to cover the examinable ground completely, quickly and without padding - in the weeks before the assessment. Because the SRA assesses conduct pervasively across every subject area of both FLK1 and FLK2, this single volume serves both halves: it covers the SRA Principles and the Codes of Conduct, client care, competence, costs and complaints, conflicts of interest, confidentiality and disclosure, undertakings, the duty to the court, money laundering, client money, fees and publicity, regulation and reporting obligations, and how each conduct rule surfaces in the specific subject areas.

Every line of the specification. Nothing invented or left out.
The volume follows the SRA's ethics and professional conduct assessment specification exactly. Every chapter and heading reproduces the specification's own wording, down to its individual bullet points, so you can work through the book side by side with the official document. Where a heading is set smaller and in italic, it is ours rather than the SRA's - a further subdivision made only to keep a long topic in digestible sheets.

Current for the January 2027 sitting.
Follows the assessment specification in force from 1 September 2026, and states the law as at 11 September 2026 - the SRA's own examinable law and practice cut-off date for the January 2027 assessment. Every figure, time limit and citation has been checked against the primary source.

Written for single-best-answer questions.
Each sheet leads with the figures - the Principles and their order, the core duties of the Codes of Conduct, the thresholds for conflict notifications, the time limit for responding to a complaint, the arrangements for client money and the segregation rules - because that is what the answer options turn on. Confusable rules are set out side by side, because a distractor is almost always built from the neighbouring duty: a confidentiality duty against a disclosure duty, an undertaking against an estoppel, a regulatory report against a money laundering report, a waivable conflict against one that cannot be waived. And where a rule exists for a reason the examiner tests, the sheet gives that reasoning too.

The complete series.
FLK1: Business Law and Practice · Dispute Resolution · Contract Law · Tort · Legal System · Legal Services
FLK2: Property Law and Practice · Wills and the Administration of Estates · Solicitors Accounts · Land Law · Trusts Law · Criminal Liability · Criminal Law and Practice
Both halves: Ethics and Professional Conduct

Then test it under examination conditions.
Knowing the law and applying it against the clock are two different skills, and SQE1 tests the second. The companion QuickPass SQE1 Mock Exams series supplies 40 complete mock papers across FLK1 and FLK2, in eight volumes, each with a full answer key and explained answers, written to the length, language and difficulty of the real assessment.

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