This SQE2 Questions & Answers revision guide covers the requirements of the SRA SQE2 assessment specification for oral skills in advocacy, which is examined four times a year in January, April, July and October. Designed specifically to help you prepare for the SQE2 assessment, it provides a clear, concise and highly focused overview of the subject, and demonstrates how you will be assessed at SQE2 in the civil and criminal areas of summary judgment, default judgment, interim applications, applications for costs, allocation and bail, admissibility of evidence, submissions of no case to answer, plea in mitigation.

The book is clearly structured around the SRA specification and focuses only on the skills you need to revise for the SQE2 assessment. The book makes clear links to SQE1 functioning legal knowledge to help you understand how the law you learnt in SQE1 can be applied in practice, and there are SQE2-style mock questions to build your confidence in answering assessment questions.

Each chapter examines the SQE2 assessment criteria and outlines the essentials of each skill, followed by an SQE2-style practice question with sample answers. The detailed commentary illustrates how the answers compare to the SRA’s competency requirements, and identifies which answer is likely to satisfy the criteria and which will not.

Revise
SQE Oral Skills for SQE2: Questions & Answers in Advocacy is available as a print book and ebook, and is suitable whether you are following an SQE preparation course, a self-study route or preparing to retake the SQE2 assessment.

"Revise SQE Oral Skills for SQE2: Questions & Answers in Advocacy" was written by Mark Thomas, Linda Chadderton, James J Ball, Amy Sixsmith and David Sixsmith.

Mark Thomas is a practising barrister in criminal law. He has taught law for several years at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including the Legal Practice Course. He is also the editor of Revise SQE: Ethics and Professional Conduct and of the two Revise SQE FLK 1 and 2 Practice Assessment books, as well as the co-author of Revise SQE Criminal Law and Revise SQE: Criminal Practice. He acts as the MCQ Advisor and Reviewer across the complete Revise SQE series.

Linda Chadderton is a lecturer in law on the undergraduate LL.B. and postgraduate Legal Practice Course at UCLAN, and a solicitor and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. As a practicing solicitor she specialised in defendant litigation. She teaches tort law, litigation, personal injury, clinical negligence and professional skills. Her experience of working in the legal profession for 20 years and subsequently teaching the next generation of legal professionals means she is ideally placed to  understand the issues and application involved in preparing for the SQE. 

James J Ball is a lecturer in law at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University. James teaches across both the undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including Criminal Litigation on the Legal Practice Course (LPC). He has a particular interest in both substantive and procedural criminal law, as well as the law of evidence. He also has considerable expertise in mooting and advocacy skills.