SQE1 subjects: the FLK1 and FLK2 modules
SQE1 tests thirteen subjects, split between two Functioning Legal Knowledge assessments. From January 2027 each assessment is sat in two sessions of 85 questions, and each session covers a fixed group of subjects.
FLK1 · session 1
Company formation and governance under the Companies Act 2006, directors' duties, shareholder decisions, share capital and distributions, partnerships and LLPs, and corporate insolvency.
Civil litigation under the Civil Procedure Rules: pre-action conduct, limitation, issuing and serving proceedings, statements of case, interim applications, disclosure, evidence, Part 36, costs, trial, enforcement and ADR.
Regulation of the legal services market, reserved legal activities, the SRA Principles and Code of Conduct, conflicts, confidentiality, anti-money laundering, funding and client care.
FLK1 · session 2
Formation, consideration and intention, terms and exclusion clauses, misrepresentation, mistake, duress and undue influence, frustration, breach and remedies, and third-party rights.
Negligence (duty, breach, causation, remoteness), psychiatric harm and economic loss, occupiers' liability, product liability, vicarious liability, nuisance and Rylands v Fletcher, defences and remedies.
Sources of law, the court hierarchy, the doctrine of precedent, statutory interpretation and the institutions of the legal system of England and Wales.
Parliamentary sovereignty, the rule of law, separation of powers, the prerogative, devolution, the Human Rights Act 1998, judicial review and retained/assimilated EU law.
FLK2 · session 1
Validity, revocation and interpretation of wills, intestacy, grants of representation, personal representatives' duties, inheritance tax basics and family provision claims.
Express trusts and the three certainties, constitution and formalities, resulting and constructive trusts, trustees' duties and powers, breach of trust, fiduciary duties and tracing.
Estates and interests, formalities, registered and unregistered land, co-ownership and TOLATA, implied trusts of the home, easements, freehold covenants, mortgages and leases.
The SRA Accounts Rules 2019 — client money, client account, withdrawals, reconciliations and breaches — and double-entry bookkeeping for client and business ledgers, including VAT.
FLK2 · session 2
Freehold and leasehold conveyancing from instructions to post-completion: title, searches, exchange and completion, mortgages, lease terms, consents, security of tenure and planning basics.
Core offences and defences, police station advice under PACE, bail, allocation, evidence (hearsay, bad character, confessions), sentencing and appeals.
The SRA Accounts Rules 2019 — client money, client account, withdrawals, reconciliations and breaches — and double-entry bookkeeping for client and business ledgers, including VAT.
Solicitors Accounts is examined in both FLK2 sessions — in the context of wills and probate, and of property. Ethics and professional conduct can come up in any session. What changed in January 2027 →