Assessment Objectives

In the context of specified criminal offences, 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:-

• the core principles of criminal liability including actus reus and mens rea, specific and general defences, and participation
• the law, procedure and processes involved in advising a client at the police station
• the law, procedure and processes involved in pre-trial considerations
• the law, procedure and processes involved to meet the client’s objectives
• the law, procedure and processes involved in magistrates’ court and Crown Court trials, including sentencing and appeals.

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 topics within the FLK assessment 2 which might be encountered in practice.

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