Equivalent Means - Common Professional Examination

Equivalent means Common Professional Examination

Application for exemption from the requirement to complete the Common Professional Examination (CPE).

Please use this form if you have passed subjects within a degree programme which correspond with the seven Foundations of Legal Knowledge subjects and one further area of legal study which make up the CPE.

Please do NOT use this form if you are:  an EU, EEA or Swiss national who is partially qualified in another EU/EEA Member State or  a UK national who is partially qualified in an EU/EEA Member State outside of the UK You should use the Equivalent Means – Morgenbesser form.

To qualify as a solicitor the SRA Training Regulations 2014 specify you must complete the academic stage and the vocational stage of training. For more information on this please refer to the Information for Students.

The seven Foundations of Legal Knowledge are the key areas of law and legal principles which will provide students with a sound body of knowledge from which to study other specialist areas of law and progress towards qualification as a solicitor. They are:

 Contract  Tort  Criminal Law  Constitutional and Administrative Law  Property Law  Equity and Trusts, and  the Law of the European Union.

You can find more detail about this in the Joint statement on the academic stage of training.

This form is designed to enable you to provide us with the necessary details of the subjects you have passed. We will evaluate this to establish to what extent you have been successfully assessed in the foundation subjects.

If you need any help completing this form after reading the guidance, please contact us. PART A - Guidance on completing the form

Please read the Information on Equivalent Means on our website before you complete this form. This will explain the key principles which we will apply in assessing your application and the fees that apply.

There are no restrictions on what evidence you can put forward towards an assessment. However the evidence must show how the outcomes have been achieved in the context of the practice of the law of England and Wales

Format  Please do not submit any of your evidence within binders, folders or plastic wallets.  Please provide certified true copies of your original degree, diploma, examination or admission certificates.  Please provide official translations of any evidence that is not in the English language.  Please provide a certified copy of your marriage certificate, or statutory declaration if your name is now different from that shown on any of the original documents (accompanied by an official translation if not in English).

Qualifications/courses  Please include transcripts of academic qualifications which give details of the modules studied (but only where the modules show that you have taken and passed a module in relation to the practice of the law of England and Wales).  Please state the level of the qualification or the level at which the course was aimed.  Please do not include theses or other written work

What will happen next?

 You will receive an acknowledgement and a reference number that you should quote in all further communications with the SRA.  We will assess your application on the basis of the information and evidence you have provided.  We aim to provide you with a decision within 90 days of receipt of your application.  When we have completed the assessment, you will receive our decision and any recommendations in writing. PART B - The application form

Section 1. Personal Details

Title First Name

Middle Name(s) Last Name

Date of Birth SRA ID (if applicable)

Telephone (day) Mobile No.

Email Address Nationality*

Passport number/identity card number

*Please include supporting evidence of your nationality, for example a certified copy of your passport or identity card.

Section 2. Home address (this should be your permanent address)

House number / Name Address Line 1

Address Line 2 Address Line 3

City County

Country Postcode

Section 2. (continued) Correspondence address (if different to home address)

House number / Name Address Line 1

Address Line 2 Address Line 3

City County

Country Postcode Section 3. UK graduate applicants

If you have a degree conferred by a university in the UK or the Republic of Ireland or by a higher education institution that has degree-awarding powers conferred by the Privy Council, please complete this section, enclosing a certified true copy of your degree and an official degree transcript.

Please ensure that you complete the CPE Exemption Assessment Table at the end of this application form.

Institution Degree and subject Class Date awarded

Section 4. Overseas graduates/lawyers

If you have a degree conferred by an academic institution outside the UK and the Republic of Ireland, please complete this section enclosing a certified true copy of your degree, an official degree transcript, and the module indicators (syllabus) for the modules that you wish to be assessed from the academic institution concerned. If you have been admitted as a lawyer in an overseas jurisdiction, please give details and enclose appropriate certificates. You may be asked to provide a syllabus and course material for assessment.

Please ensure that you complete the CPE Exemption Assessment Table at the end of this application form.

Institution Degree and subject Class Date awarded

Lawyer title Jurisdiction Date admitted/ qualified Please note we reserve the right to request original certificates. Section 5. Chartered Legal Executives/Graduates of CILEx

Please complete this section if you are a Chartered Legal Executive or a Graduate of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx).

Date of admission as a Chartered Legal Executive

Date of registration as a Graduate of CILEx (GCILEx)

CILEx level 6 membership examinations passed

Subject Level Date awarded

You will need to enclose certified true copies of the following documents:

 pass certificates of subjects  any documents which confirm a change of name  your certificate of admission as a Chartered Legal Executive (if applicable) or your current CILEx practising certificate  your certificate of registration as GCILEx Section 6. Declaration

This declaration must be completed in all cases.

Knowingly or recklessly giving the SRA information which is false or misleading, or failure to inform the SRA of materially significant information, may lead to disciplinary action by the SRA.

We may need to contact third parties, such as education providers, in order to verify the information given in this form. By completing this declaration you are giving us your permission to do this. All information provided by you will be treated securely and strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

The SRA will revoke any decision if it was granted as a result of error or fraud.

I confirm that:

I am the individual named on this application and have read the guidance notes.

I give permission for the SRA to make such investigations as necessary in the course of verifying

the information given in this form.

I agree to notify the SRA of any other information relevant to the application and inform the SRA

immediately of any changes to the information provided.

I declare that the information I have provided is true and correct.

Full Name SRA ID (if applicable)

Applicant Signature Date

If completed electronically please tick to say you confirm the declaration.

Please note if the form is not signed and the fee is not received your application will not be processed. CPE EXEMPTION ASSESSMENT TABLE (qualifications)

NAME OF APPLICANT:

SUBJECT Credit Level of study (eg level 4, 5, 61 Indica Indicate areas Assessment (please explain awarde graduate/post-graduate) tive studied (X) how the subject/module was d (if not syllab assessed indicating the name credit us of the module(s) under which bearing the foundation subject was - studied) indicate length of study)

1 Contract Law  (sometimes Fo called Obligations)  Pri

 Te

 Ex

 Viti

1 According to the National Qualifications Network Compare different qualifications - GOV.UK  Te

 Re

2 Tort  (sometimes Ne also called Obligations)  Br

 Nu

 Tr

 De

 Vic

 Re

 De

3 Criminal Law  El

 Ca

 Mo

 Sp

 Inc

 De

 Th 4 Equity and  Trusts Dif

 Cr

 Re

 Co

 Ch

 Tr

 Fid

 Th

 Eq 5 Constitutional  and Th Administrativ e Law (sometimes  called Public Th Law) (may also include Human Rights)  Go

 Pa

 Se

 Th

 Hu

 Ju

6 EU Law (may  include Human EU Rights)  Re

 Th

7 English Legal  System Th

 Th

8 Land Law/  Property Law Ke

 Th  Es

 Th

 Ad

 Th

 Re

9 Additional area of legal study

Section 7. Returning the form

To help us process your application quickly, please check that: The declaration has been signed and dated.

Any additional sheets are labelled and attached to this form.

Full payment is included. If not paying by cheque, completed method of payment form is enclosed. Any relevant documentation is enclosed, including a copy of proof of name change, for example

deed poll or marriage certificate.

Please send the fully completed application form and £55 fee via one of the options below:

Email [email protected] - This facility is only available if paying by bank transfer.

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