For several years now, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has been working toward the design and implementation of a single, centrally administered, examination which all prospective solicitors will be required to sit and pass. The formal title of this new assessment is the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE). It consists of two stages. Broadly speaking, SRA has assigned to the first stage (SQE1) the acquisition of legal knowledge over defined fields, such as co