Assessment Objectives

Candidates are required to apply relevant core legal principles and rules appropriately and effectively, at the level of a competent newly qualified solicitor in practice, to realistic client-based and ethical problems and situations in the following areas:-

• Analysis of merits of claim or defence.
• Arbitration, mediation and litigation as an appropriate mechanism to resolve a dispute.
• Pre-Action considerations and steps.
• Commencing, responding to or progressing a claim.
• Case management and any interim applications relevant to a claim.
• The evidence needed and disclosure steps required in commencing, responding to, progressing or defending a claim.
• Preparaton of a case for a trial, the trial and any post trial steps.
• Procedures and processes relevant to costs involved in dispute resolution.

Candidates must demonstrate their ability to act honestly and with integrity and in accordance with the SOSC, the SRA Principles and the Code of Conduct.

Questions may draw on any combination of the subject areas within this FLK assessment 1 which might be encountered in practice.

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