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:-

• the validity of a will and interpretation of the contents of a will, the distribution of testate, intestate and partially intestate estates.
• the law and practice in connection with an application for a grant of representation
• the law and practice of inheritance tax in the context of lifetime gifts and transfers on death
• the planning, management and progression of the administration of an estate including claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975.
• The law and practice relating to personal representatives and trustees in the administration of estate and consequent trusts. The rights, powers and remedies of beneficiaries of wills and consequent trusts.

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.

Candidates will not be required to demonstrate knowledge relating to foreign law, foreign assets or foreign taxes.

Questions may draw on any combination of the subject areas within this FLK assessment 2 which might be encountered in practice.

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