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Legal Services Board approves significant changes to how solicitors qualify

News Team, 30/10/2020

The Legal Services Board (LSB) has approved the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) application to make significant changes to how people qualify as solicitors in England and Wales.

The changes include the introduction of a new centralised assessment, the Solicitors Qualification Examination (SQE), and a requirement for a minimum of two years’ qualifying work experience (QWE).

To introduce the planned changes, the SRA needed to appl...


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