SQE1 Legal Services – Rules, Exceptions & Key Distinctions Cheat Sheet

A comprehensive 23-page SQE1 Legal Services revision guide designed to help you understand, organise and quickly recall the regulatory rules most likely to be tested in multiple-choice questions.

The resource is structured to follow the relevant SRA SQE1 Assessment Specification and Functioning Legal Knowledge (FLK) applicable .

The cheat sheet presents the subject in structured, colour-coded tables separating the general rule, exceptions, important limits, key authorities, MCQ trigger words, legal effects and key distinctions.

Topics covered include:

• Legal services providers
• Reserved legal activities
• Rights of audience
• Conduct of litigation
• Reserved instrument activities
• Probate and notarial activities
• Administration of oaths
• Authorised and exempt persons
• Approved regulators
• The Legal Services Board
• Regulation of solicitors and law firms
• Alternative business structures
• Legal services funding
• Civil legal aid
• Regulatory and disciplinary consequences

The guide places particular emphasis on which activities are reserved, who may carry them out, which regulator is responsible and what happens when legal services are provided without the required authorisation.

The resource is designed for use when consolidating Legal Services, preparing for mocks or completing final-stage revision before the SQE1 examination.

Please note: This is an independently prepared revision resource and is not affiliated with, approved by or endorsed by the SRA, Kaplan, any university, education provider or SQE training provider. It is intended as a supplementary study aid and should be used alongside the official SQE assessment specification and your main study materials.