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FLK 1 Business organisations, rules and procedures

Excluding the Listing, Prospectus, Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules and any other FCA, London Stock Exchange, market rules or codes
Business and organisational characteristics (sole trader/partnership/LLP/private and unlisted public companies
Legal personality and limited liability

Procedures and documentation required to incorporate a company/form a partnership/LLP and other steps required under companies and partnerships legislation to enable the entity to commence operating

Constitutional documents
Companies House filing requirements

Finance

Funding options: debt and equity
Types of security
Distribution of profits and gains
Financial records, information and accounting requirements

Corporate governance and compliance

Rights, duties and powers of directors and shareholders of companies
Company decision-making and meetings: procedural, disclosure and approval requirements
Documentary, record-keeping, statutory filing and disclosure requirements
Appointment and removal of directors
Minority shareholder protection

Partnership decision-making and authority of partners

Procedures and authority under the Partnership Act 1890
Common provisions in partnership agreements

Insolvency (corporate and personal)

Options and procedures - CVA/IVA, bankruptcy, administration, fixed asset receivership, voluntary and compulsory liquidation
Claw-back of assets for creditors – preferences, transactions at an undervalue, fraudulent and wrongful trading, setting aside a floating charge
Order of priority for distribution to creditors.

Taxation - business

Income Tax

Chargeable persons/entities (employees, sole traders, partners, shareholders, lenders and debenture holders)
Basis of charge (types of income/main reliefs and exemptions)
The charge to tax: calculation and collection
The scope of anti-avoidance provisions

Capital Gains Tax

Chargeable persons/entities (sole traders, partners, and shareholders)
Basis of charge (calculation of gains/allowable deductions/main reliefs and exemptions)
The charge to tax: calculation and collection
The scope of anti-avoidance provisions

Corporation Tax

Basis of charge
Calculation, payment and collection of tax
Tax treatment of company distributions or deemed distributions to shareholders
Outline of anti-avoidance legislation

Value Added Tax

key principles relating to scope, supply, input and output tax
Registration requirements and issue of VAT invoices
Returns/payment of VAT and record keeping

Inheritance Tax

Business property relief
Topic-wise assignments for this module- 100 MCQs (indicative)

The principles, procedures and processes involved in dispute resolution

Different options for dispute resolution

The characteristics of arbitration, mediation and litigation which make them an appropriate mechanism to resolve a dispute.

Resolving a dispute through a civil claim

Preliminary considerations: limitation, pre-action protocols:
Parties and causes of action
Calculating limitation periods for claims in contract and tort
Practice Direction – pre-action conduct
Principles and purpose of pre-action protocols governing particular claims and consequences for failure to follow their terms
Applicable law: mechanisms to determine which country’s laws apply to a contractual or tortious claim issued in the courts of England and Wales
Jurisdiction: mechanisms to determine jurisdiction over an international contractual or tortious claim

Where to start proceedings

Allocation of business between the High Court and the county court
Jurisdiction of the specialist courts

Issuing and serving proceedings

Issuing a claim form
Adding, removing or substituting parties
Service of a claim form within the jurisdiction
Procedure for service of a claim form outside the jurisdiction (with or without the court’s permission) and mechanisms for effecting valid service in another jurisdiction
Deemed dates of service and time limits for serving proceedings
Service by an alternative method

Responding to a claim

Admitting the claim
Acknowledging service and filing a defence and/or counterclaim
Disputing the court’s jurisdiction
Entering and setting aside judgment in default
Discontinuance and settlement
Time limits for responding to a claim

Statements of case

Purpose, structure and content of a claim form, particulars of claim, or defence relating to a claim in contract or tort
Purpose, structure and content of a reply, Part 20 claim, or defence to Part 20 claim
Requests for further information about statements of case
Amendments

Interim applications

Procedure for making an application
Purpose, procedure and evidence required for particular applications:
- Summary judgment
- Interim payments
- Interim injunctions

Case management

The overriding objective
Track allocation
Case management directions for cases proceeding on the fast or multi-tracks
Non-compliance with orders, sanctions and relief
Costs and case management conferences

Evidence

Relevance, hearsay and admissibility
The burden and standard of proof
Expert evidence -
- Opinion evidence
- Duties of experts
- Single joint experts
- Discussion between experts
Witness evidence -
- Witness statements
- Affidavits

Disclosure and inspection

Standard disclosure
Orders for disclosure
Specific disclosure
Pre-action and non-party disclosure
Electronic disclosure
Privilege and without prejudice communications
Waiver of privilege

Trial

Summoning witnesses
Preparations for trial -
Purpose of pre-trial checklists and hearings
Purpose of trial bundles.
Trial procedure including modes of address, court room etiquette and the difference between leading and non-leading questions
The nature and effect of judgment

Costs

Costs management and budgeting
Inter-partes costs orders (interim and final)
Non-party costs
Qualified one-way costs shifting
Part 36 and other offers
Security for costs
Fixed and assessed costs

Appeals

Permission
Destination of appeals
Grounds for appeals

Enforcement of money judgments

Oral examination
Methods of enforcement
Procedure and mechanisms for effecting valid enforcement in another jurisdiction.
Topic-wise assignments for this module- 100 MCQs (indicative)
Core principles of contract law

Core principles of contract law

Formation

Offer and acceptance
Consideration
Intention to create legal relations
Certainty
Capacity

Parties

Privity of contract
Rights of third parties

Contract terms

Express terms
Incorporation of terms
Terms implied by common law and statute
Exemption clauses
The interpretation of contract terms (conditions, warranties and innominate terms)
Variation

Vitiating factors

Misrepresentation
Mistake
Unfair contract terms
Duress and undue influence
Illegality

Termination

Remedies

Damages
Liquidated sums and penalties
Specific performance
Injunctions
Duty to mitigate
Indemnities
Guarantees.
Causation and remoteness
Topic-wise assignments for this module- 100 mcqs (indicative)
Core principles of tort

Core principles of tort

Negligence

Duty of care (standard (general and professional)) and breach
Causation (single and multiple)
Remoteness and loss
Principles of remedies for personal injury and death claims
Claims for pure economic loss arising from either a negligent act or misstatement
Claims for psychiatric harm
Employers’ primary liability (operation and effect of the common law principles).

Defences

Consent
Contributory negligence
Illegality
Necessity

Principles of Vicarious Liability

Occupiers’ Liability

Legal requirements for a claim under the occupiers’ liability act 1957 (in relation to visitors) and the occupiers’ liability act 1984 (in relation to non-visitors)
Defences
Exclusion of liability

Product liability

Principles in negligence
Principles of the consumer protection act 1987

Nuisance

Public and private nuisance
The rule in rylands v fletcher
Remedies (damages and injunctions) and defences.
Topic-wise assignments for this module- 100 mcqs (indicative)
The legal system of england and wales and sources of law

The Legal System of England and Wales and Sources of law

The courts

The judiciary
Court hierarchy, the appeal system and jurisdiction
Rights of audience

Development of case law: the doctrine of precedent Primary legislation: the structure of an act of Parliament

Statutory interpretation

The literal rule
The golden rule
The mischief rule
The purposive approach
Presumptions
Aids to statutory interpretation and construction.
Topic-wise assignments for this module- 100 MCQs (indicative)

Constitutional and Administrative law and EU law

Core institutions of the state and how they interrelate

Parliament and parliamentary sovereignty
Central government and accountability
Status of the devolved institutions and their relationship with westminster
The monarch and the crown
The role of constitutional conventions
Prerogative power: relationship with legislation and constitutional conventions
Parliamentary privilege.

Legitimacy, separation of powers and the rule of law

Powers and procedures for the enactment, implementation and repeal of primary and secondary legislation

Public Order law

Processions
Assemblies
Breach of the peace

Judicial review

The nature, process and limits of judicial review
Supervisory nature
Remedies
Decisions which may be challenged
Standing
Time limits
Grounds:
Illegality
Irrationality
Procedural impropriety
Legitimate expectation

Human rights act 1998 and the european convention on human rights

Ss.2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10 human rights act 1998
Schedule 1 hra 1998 the "Convention rights"

The place of EU law in the UK constitution

Sources of retained EU law
Categories/status/interpretation of retained EU law
Modification/withdrawal of retained EU law
Parliamentary sovereignty and retained EU law

Legal Services The regulatory role of the SRA

Principles and risk-based regulation

Reserved legal activities
Professional indemnity insurance
Other regulated providers of legal services

Overriding legal obligations The equality act 2010 Money laundering

Purpose and scope of anti-money laundering legislation including the international context
Circumstances encountered in the course of practice where suspicion of money laundering should be reported in accordance with the legislation
The appropriate person or body to whom suspicions should be reported, the appropriate time for such reports to be made and the appropriate procedure to be followed
Direct involvement and non-direct involvement offences, and defences to those offences under proceeds of crime act 2002
Due diligence requirements

Financial services

The financial services regulatory framework including authorisation, and how it applies to solicitors' firms
Recognition of relevant financial services issues, including the identification of specified investments, specified activities and relevant exemptions
Application of the financial services and markets act 2000 and related secondary legislation to the work of a solicitor
Appropriate sources of information on financial services.

Funding options for legal services

Private retainer
Conditional fee arrangements
Damages based agreements
Fixed fees
Eligibility for criminal and civil legal aid
Third party funding
Legal expenses insurance.
Topic-wise assignments for this module- 100 mcqs (indicative)

Core knowledge areas of freehold real estate law and practice

Investigation of a registered and unregistered freehold title

key elements and structure of freehold property transactions
process of analysing Land Registry official copy entries
process of analysing an epitome of title and deducing ownership
issues that could arise from an investigation of title and further action required
purpose and process of reporting to the client.

Pre-contract searches and enquiries

range and purpose of making searches and raising enquiries.
who would make the searches and raise enquiries.
results of searches and enquiries

Law Society Conveyancing Protocol

Finance

sources of finance for a property transaction
types of mortgage

Acting for a lender

lender’s requirements
purpose of a certificate of title.

Preparation for and exchange of contracts

key conditions contained in the:
Standard Conditions of Sale
Standard Commercial Property Conditions.
purpose of, and matters covered by, special conditions
methods of holding a deposit:
stakeholder
agent
insurance and risk
basics of VAT in a contract
timing for issuing certificate of title to a lender
the practice, method and authority to exchange
consequences of exchange

Pre-completion

form of transfer deed and formalities for execution
pre-completion searches
pre-completion steps.

Completion and post-completion

methods and effect of completion
post-completion steps

Remedies for delayed completion

common law damages
contractual compensation
notice to complete
rescission

Core knowledge areas of leasehold real estate law and practice

Structure and content of a lease

repair
insurance
alterations
user and planning
rent and rent review
alienation
options for the term of a lease
Code for Leasing Business Premises

Procedural steps for the grant of a lease or underlease

drafting the lease
purpose of an agreement for lease
deduction of title
pre-contract enquiries and searches
pre-completion formalities
completion and post-completion steps

Procedural steps for the assignment of a lease

deduction of title
pre-contract enquiries and searches
landlord’s consent
deed of assignment and covenants for title
pre-completion formalities
authorised guarantee agreement
completion and post-completion steps

Licence to assign and licence to underlet

purpose of and who prepares the draft
privity of contract and how the licence deals with this
key provisions in the licence

Leasehold covenants

liability on covenants in leases –
leases granted before 1 January 1996
leases granted on or after 1 January 1996

Remedies for breach of a leasehold covenant

action in debt
forfeiture
Commercial Rent Arrears Recovery
pursue guarantors and/or rent deposit
specific performance
damages
self-help/Jervis v Harris clause

Termination of a lease

effluxion of time
notice to quit
surrender
merger

Security of tenure under a business lease

Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (Part II) –
application of 1954 Act
renewal lease by the tenant
termination by the landlord
landlord’s grounds of opposition
terms of new lease
availability of compensation

Taxation – property

Stamp Duty Land Tax and Land Transaction Tax

basis of charge in both England and Wales for:
residential property
non-residential freehold property

Value Added Tax

basis of charge:
what constitutes a taxable supply
differences between standard, exempt and zero-rated supplies
reasons why a client would make an option to tax and the effect that has

Capital Gains Tax

basis of charge
principal private dwelling-house exemption.
Topic-wise assignments for this module- 100 MCQs (indicative)

Wills and Intestacy

Validity of wills and codicils

testamentary capacity
duress and undue influence
formal requirements

Personal Representatives

the appointment of executors
renunciation and reservation of power

Alterations and amendments to wills

effect of alterations made to wills both before and after execution
use of codicils

Revocation of wills

methods of revocation
effect of marriage and divorce of a testator

The interpretation of wills

effect of different types of gift
failure of gifts

The intestacy rules

Section 46 of The Administration of Estates Act 1925
the statutory trusts

Property passing outside the estate

joint property
life policies
pension scheme benefits
trust property.

Probate and Administration Practice

Grants of representation

need for grant
the relevant provisions of the Non-Contentious Probate Rules
application procedure
valuation of assets and liabilities
excepted estates
methods of funding the initial payment of Inheritance Tax
burden and incidence of Inheritance Tax.

Administration of estates

duties of personal representatives
liabilities of personal representatives and their protection
the sale of assets to raise funds to pay funeral expenses, tax, debts and legacies
distribution of the estate

Claims against estates under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975

time limit
applicants
ground

Taxation – wills and the administration of estates

Inheritance Tax

lifetime transfers that are immediately chargeable and those that are potentially exempt
transfers on death
exemptions and reliefs
the scope of anti-avoidance provisions

Income and Capital Gains Tax in respect of the period of the administration of an estate

the personal representatives’ liability to Income Tax and Capital Gains Tax
the beneficiaries’ liability to Capital Gains Tax on inherited assets

Solicitors Accounts

Client money

definition
requirement to pay client money into a client account
circumstances in which client money may be withheld from a client account
repayment
accounting entries required

Client account

meaning and name of account
obligation not to use client account to provide banking facilities
withdrawals and accounting entries required

Requirement to keep client money separate from money belonging to the authorised body Interest

requirement to pay interest on client money
accounting entries required

Breach of the SRA Accounts Rules

duty to correct breaches of SRA Accounts Rules promptly on discovery
accounting entries required

Requirement to keep and maintain accurate records in client ledgers, including requirement to carry out reconciliation of client accounts and to keep a record of bills to include

disbursements using the agency and principal methods
transfers
submission, reduction and payment of bills including the VAT element
accounting entries required

Core principles of land law

Nature of Land

distinction between real property and personal property
how to acquire and transfer legal and equitable estates
how to acquire and dispose of legal and equitable interests in land
methods to protect and enforce third party interests
different ways in which land can be held
legal formalities required to create and transfer interests and estates in land

Title to Land

registration of title to land:
estates that can be substantively registered
how to protect interests
interests that override registration and interests that need to be protected on the register
core principles of unregistered title to land:
role of title deeds
Land Charges
continuing role of doctrine of notice

Co-ownership and Trusts

differences between joint tenants and tenants in common in law and in equity
rule of survivorship
severance of joint tenancies
solving disagreements between co-owners by reference to sections 14 and 15 of Trusts of Land & Appointment of Trustees Act 1996.

Proprietary Rights

essential characteristics of easements
methods for creation of easements
rules for the passing of the benefit and burden of freehold covenants
mortgages, including enforceability of terms, priority of mortgages, lender’s powers and duties, and protection of mortgagors and other third parties with an interest in the land

Leases

relationship between landlord and tenant in a lease
essential characteristics of a lease including the difference between a lease and a licence
privity of contract and privity of estate
rules for the passing of the benefit and burden of leasehold covenants and enforceability
purpose and effect of an alienation covenant
remedies for breach of leasehold covenants (including forfeiture)
different ways a lease can be terminated

Core principles of trust law

Creation and requirements of express trusts

the three certainties of intention, subject matter and objects:
fixed interest trusts
discretionary trusts
formalities to create express inter vivos trusts
constitution of express inter vivos trusts and exceptions to the rule that equity will not assist a volunteer

Beneficial entitlement

fixed, discretionary, vested, contingent interests
the rule in Saunders v Vautier

The distinction between charitable trusts and non-charitable purpose trusts Resulting trusts

how they arise and when they are (or are not) presumed

Trusts of the family home

establishment of a common intention constructive trust:
legal title in the name of both parties/sole party
express declaration or agreement as to equitable ownership
direct and indirect contributions
requirements to establish proprietary estoppel

Liability of strangers to the trust

establishing recipient liability
establishing accessory liability

The fiduciary relationship and its obligations

duty not to profit from fiduciary position
trustees not to purchase trust property
fiduciary not to put himself in a position where his interest and duty conflict

Trustees

who can be a trustee; appointment, removal and retirement of trustees
trustees’ duty of care
trustees’ duty to invest (and powers in relation to investment)
trustees’ statutory powers of maintenance and advancement.

Trustees’ liability

breach of trust
measure of liability
protection of trustees
limitation period

Core principles of criminal liability

The core principles of criminal liability relating to the specified criminal offences listed below

assault and battery
s. 47 Offences Against the Person Act 1861
s. 20 Offences Against the Person Act 1861
s. 18 Offences Against the Person Act 1861

theft offences

s. 1 Theft Act 1968
s. 8 Theft Act 1968
s. 9 Theft Act 1968
s. 10 Theft Act 1968

criminal damage

simple criminal damage
aggravated criminal damage
arson

homicide

murder
voluntary manslaughter
involuntary manslaughter (unlawful act manslaughter, manslaughter by gross negligence)

fraud

by false representation
by abuse of position
by failing to disclose

Definition of the offence

actus reus
mens rea

General defences

intoxication
self-defence/defence of another

Partial defences

loss of control
diminished responsibility

Parties

principal offender
accomplices
joint enterprise

Inchoate offences

Attempt to commit an offence

Advising clients, including vulnerable clients, about the procedure and processes at the police station

Rights of a suspect being detained by the police for questioning

right to legal advice
right to have someone informed of arrest
reviews and detention time limits under PACE 1984, Code C.

Identification procedures

when an identification procedure must be held
different types of identification procedure
procedure for carrying out an identification procedure PACE 1984, Code D

Advising a client, including vulnerable clients, whether to answer police questions

right to silence
adverse inferences

Procedure for interviewing a suspect under PACE 1984

role and appropriate conduct by defence legal representative/ solicitor including representation of vulnerable client
role of appropriate adult and who can be an appropriate adult

The procedures and processes involved in criminal litigation

Bail applications

the right to bail and exceptions
conditional bail
procedure for applying for bail
further applications for bail
appeals against decisions on bail
absconding and breaches of bail.

First hearings before the magistrates’ court

classification of offences
applying for a representation order
procedural overview – what will happen at the hearing
the role of the defence solicitor at the hearing

Plea before Venue

procedure on defendant entering plea
advising the client on trial venue

Allocation of business between magistrates' court and Crown Court

procedure ss. 19–20 and s. 22A Magistrates' Courts Act 1980
sending without allocation s. 50A Crime and Disorder Act 1998

Case management and pre-trial hearings

Magistrates' court case management directions
Plea and Trial Preparation Hearing
disclosure – prosecution, defence and unused material

Principles and procedures to admit and exclude evidence

burden and standard of proof
visual identification evidence and Turnbull guidance
inferences from silence ss. 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
hearsay evidence:
definition
grounds for admitting hearsay evidence
confession evidence:
definition
admissibility
challenging admissibility ss. 76 and 78 PACE 1984
character evidence:
definition of bad character
the 7 gateways s. 101(1) Criminal Justice Act 2003
procedure for admitting bad character evidence
court’s powers to exclude bad character evidence
exclusion of evidence:
scope and application of s. 78 PACE and the right to a fair trial

Trial procedure in magistrates’ court and Crown Court

burden and standard of proof
stages of a criminal trial, including submission of no case to answer
modes of address and Court room etiquette
difference between leading and non-leading questions
competence and compellability
special measures
solicitor’s duty to the court.

Sentencing

role of sentencing guidelines
determining seriousness (aggravating and mitigating facts)
concurrent and consecutive sentences
mitigation
types of sentence:
custodial sentences
suspended sentences
community orders
Newton hearings.

Appeals procedure

appeals from the magistrates’ court:
procedure for appeal against conviction and/or sentence
powers of the Crown Court
appeal to the High Court by way of case stated
appeals from the Crown Court:
grounds of appeal
procedure for making the appeal
powers of the Court of Appeal

Youth court procedure

jurisdiction and grave crimes
allocation
youths jointly charged with adult
sentencing:
role of the Sentencing Children and Young People – definitive guidelines
referral orders
detention and training orders
youth rehabilitation orders

Ethics, professionalism and judgment

The purpose, scope and content of the SRA Principles
The purpose, scope and content of the Code of Conduct, which consists of:
SRA Code of Conduct for Solicitors, RELs and RFLs
SRA Code of Conduct for Firms in relation to:
Managers in authorised firms
Compliance Officers.

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FLK 1 Business organisations, rules and procedures

Procedures and documentation required to incorporate a company/form a partnership/LLP and other steps required under companies and partnerships legislation to enable the entity to commence operating

Finance

Corporate governance and compliance

Partnership decision-making and authority of partners

Insolvency (corporate and personal)

Taxation - business

Income Tax

Capital Gains Tax

Corporation Tax

Value Added Tax

Inheritance Tax

The principles, procedures and processes involved in dispute resolution

Different options for dispute resolution

Resolving a dispute through a civil claim

Where to start proceedings

Issuing and serving proceedings

Responding to a claim

Statements of case

Interim applications

Case management

Evidence

Disclosure and inspection

Trial

Costs

Appeals

Enforcement of money judgments

Core principles of contract law

Formation

Parties

Contract terms

Vitiating factors

Termination

Remedies

Core principles of tort

Negligence

Defences

Principles of Vicarious Liability

Occupiers’ Liability

Product liability

Nuisance

The Legal System of England and Wales and Sources of law

The courts

Development of case law: the doctrine of precedent Primary legislation: the structure of an act of Parliament

Statutory interpretation

Constitutional and Administrative law and EU law

Core institutions of the state and how they interrelate

Legitimacy, separation of powers and the rule of law

Public Order law

Judicial review

Human rights act 1998 and the european convention on human rights

The place of EU law in the UK constitution

Legal Services The regulatory role of the SRA

Principles and risk-based regulation

Overriding legal obligations The equality act 2010 Money laundering

Financial services

Funding options for legal services

Core knowledge areas of freehold real estate law and practice

Investigation of a registered and unregistered freehold title

Pre-contract searches and enquiries

Law Society Conveyancing Protocol

Finance

Acting for a lender