SQE1 · topic drill
Legal Services and ethics drill
The SRA Principles and Code of Conduct, conflicts and confidentiality, reserved activities, money laundering, financial services, equality duties and funding.
28questions in the bank
20per sitting, shuffled
—untimed
The answer and explanation appear after each question. Each sitting draws a fresh 20 from the bank, so run it again for new ones.
What is in this drill
Scope: FLK1, Chapter 7: Legal Services
A sample question
To help a client complete a purchase, a solicitor gave the seller's solicitor a written undertaking to pay off a loan from the completion money. Before completion, the client tells her not to pay the lender as he has a dispute with it. What should she do?
- Honour the undertaking, as it binds her personally whatever the client now instructs.
- Pay the money into court until the dispute between client and lender is resolved.
- Honour the undertaking only if the seller's solicitor threatens enforcement.
- Follow the client's new instructions, as she must act in his best interests.
- Withdraw the undertaking by writing to the seller's solicitor before completion.
Marked when you take the drill; the explanation appears in your review.