Full Course Information 

SQE 2 - long course- ideal when studying part-time

• The current course started in February 2025, with a view to sitting the SQE2 exam in October 2025. Delegates still wishing to join will be able to access all past live sessions as recordings, and join the ongoing live classes.
• Classes are on-line via Zoom at  *12-1pm GMT each Saturday morning for 25 weeks [excluding reading weeks and public holidays] and each session will be recorded, password protected and posted for you to start keeping a ‘file’ of the recordings for your revision. At the end of the course for SQE2 you will be invited at no extra cost to the revision weekend/master class (26 and 27th weeks) just before the sitting of the exams [see my ‘Live Revision weekend’ page for details].
• The second intake will start on 19th July 2025, to get you ready to sit in April 2026.

 

What will be covered?

SQE2 is designed to assess your practical legal skills across a number of practice areas, so our preparation courses focus on just that. To pass, you need to demonstrate your ability to accurately advise clients and apply the law to different circumstances. This includes interviewing clients, making advocacy presentations to the court, writing legal advice, identifying the right documents to use and being able to draft them yourself.

Our SQE2 preparation courses focus on getting you ready for the practical elements of the assessment, alongside further developing your legal knowledge and skills.

 

• Teaching from a combination of ReviseSQE text books and Schatz Legal Learning manual
• Structured sessions
• Practice exercises to improve skills
• Advocacy videos from experienced practitioners
• Tips and strategy videos from previous successful candidates
• Videos on interview skills and case analysis from experienced practitioners
• Group study with pastoral care
• Leading to a Weekend Revision Masterclasses prior to the assessments

 

 

Overview of the SQE2 assessment

Legal skills assessments

The legal skills assessments in SQE2 are:

• client interview and attendance note/legal analysis
• advocacy
• case and matter analysis
• legal research
• legal writing
• legal drafting.

Further detail about each of these assessments is given in Assessments in SQE2.

Although there is no separate assessment called negotiation, all deliveries of SQE2 will contain at least one assessment involving negotiation. Negotiation may be assessed in either interview and attendance note/legal analysis and/or case and matter analysis and/or legal writing.

Practice areas

The practice areas in which these legal skills are assessed are:

• Criminal Litigation (including advising clients at the police station)
• Dispute Resolution
• Property Practice
• Wills and Intestacy, Probate Administration and Practice
• Business organisations, rules and procedures (including money laundering and financial services).

Questions in these practice areas may draw on underlying black letter law in the Functioning Legal Knowledge (FLK) as follows:

• Criminal Litigation: Criminal liability
• Dispute Resolution: Contract law and tort
• Property Practice: Land law
• Wills and Intestacy, Probate Administration and Practice: Trusts
• Business organisations, rules and procedures: Contract law.

Professionalism and ethics will be core parts of SQE2. Questions on ethics will be pervasive throughout SQE2. Ethical issues will not be flagged and candidates will need to identify any ethical and professional conduct issues and exercise judgment to resolve them honestly and with integrity.

Questions involving taxation may arise in Property Practice; Wills and Intestacy, Probate Administration and Practice; and Business organisations, rules

and procedures.

 

 

Organisation and delivery