I have recently made my a level choices and am worried iv made the wrong decision....anyone know if there are specific subjects needed to be a solicitor?please help
The most common methods of qualification are a normal undergraduate law degree (a Bachelor of Laws, or 'LLB'), or a degree in any subject followed by a one year course formerly called the Common Professional Exam and recently renamed the Graduate Diploma in Law. Other routes, for example, spending time as a clerk to magistrates, or passing exams set by the Institute of Legal Executives (ILEX) are possible. Up to this point a barrister and solicitor have the same education.
Thereafter they split. Solicitors study a one year course called the Legal Practice Course and then must undertake two years apprenticeship with a solicitor, called the training contract (but still widely referred to as 'articles' as in 'articled clerk' by older members of the profession). Once that is complete, the student becomes a solicitor and is 'admitted to the roll'. The 'roll' is a list of people qualified to be a solicitor and is kept on behalf of the 'Master of the Rolls' whose more important job is that he is the head of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. Solicitors who are being disciplined by the Law Society can be suspended from the roll under Section 12 of the Solicitors Act 1974 or even struck off, which prevents them acting as a solicitor.
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