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SQE
SQE Law Essentials Online
The booking deadline for our May 2026 intake is Monday 25 May 2026 at 12:00pm (UK time).
Continue your legal journey with our SQE Law Essentials course, designed for early stage legal professionals who wish to reinforce their legal knowledge, or individuals who have studied law previously and wish to update their knowledge. This short, online conversion course will give you the essential academic legal knowledge required for SQE1 and a solid grounding in core legal principles. This course prepares you to take our SQE1 Preparation Course or LLM Legal Practice (SQE1&2) to qualify as a solicitor within England and Wales. SQE Law Essentials focuses on two key skills: technical legal knowledge, and the skills required to pass legal professional examinations, such as the SQE1.
All our law lecturers are qualified lawyers with real-life experience in practice allowing students to learn in a realistic, professional and contemporary context.
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As a member of ULaw Online, you will have access to all the University's wider supporting services.
<¹û¶³´«Ã½ÊÓƵֱ²¥ >Course Details
SQE Law Essentials
We are one of the UK's longest-established specialist providers of legal education, with a rich heritage and reputation for innovation. Our years of experience in training more practising lawyers in the UK than any other law school has helped our students go on to succeed in law, business, politics and more. We believe in training students for the real world from the moment they accept a place with us.
With the SQE Law Essentials you will receive online support and feedback from one of our expert legal lecturers. You’ll have access to world-class learning materials, including our unique methods of online engagement, and unrivalled online lecturer supervision and support.
Why choose the SQE Law Essentials course?
Be ready to progress your legal training and go on to study the SQE1
Develop the skills required to answer SQE1 style legal knowledge questions
Spread out your study with our structured modular study pattern, so you can focus on key areas each semester, instead of all at the end of the course.
Learn using our successful and unique Prepare, Engage, Consolidate (PEC) learning model
Receive focused lecturer support, from qualified lawyers, with weekly lecturer-led sessions in every module
Enjoy flexible study – We understand that everyone’s circumstances are different. That’s why our SQE Law Essentials courses is delivered full-time and part-time online, to provide you with the greatest choice and flexibility you need to succeed in your studies.
Receive access to our Careers and Pro Bono team, who make up our award-winning Employability Service. Your bespoke Employability Law Essentials Programme will help you understand and develop the key competencies required for being a solicitor
We have a vast network in the legal industry, providing legal training for 90 of the top 100 law firms in the UK and exclusively delivering SQE training for over 65 leading UK and US law firms.
Not sure if this course is right for you? Download our free guide, An SQE Course for Everyone, to find your path to becoming a solicitor.
<¹û¶³´«Ã½ÊÓƵֱ²¥ >Course Structure
Academic modules
You will learn the essentials of the key foundation areas of law that align to the Solicitors Regulation Authority specification of Functioning Legal Knowledge (FLK) for the SQE. In each area, you will develop a practical and functional understanding of the foundations of English & Welsh Law, and core analytical and practical legal skills. You will also receive an ebook study manual for each of these modules.
English Legal System and Constitutional Law (including EU Law)
Contract Law
Tort Law
Constitutional and Administrative Law
Criminal Law
Land Law
Trusts
<¹û¶³´«Ã½ÊÓƵֱ²¥ >Course Start Dates
May 2026
SQE Law Essentials
Full-time: Online
August 2026
SQE Law Essentials
Part-time: Online
November 2026
SQE Law Essentials
Full-time: Online
January 2027
SQE Law Essentials
Part-time: Online
May 2027
SQE Law Essentials
Full-time: Online
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<¹û¶³´«Ã½ÊÓƵֱ²¥ >Course requirements
The course demands show you the requirements, prior knowledge and commitments our course will involve.
With many options for when you can study, you can be sure to find a start date to suit your needs.
Please note: The SQE Law Essentials course will help prepare you for the SQE1 assessment.
You will book, pay for and sit your SQE assessments externally, this includes requests for reasonable adjustments. See for details.
You will sit your SQE assessments at Pearson VUE test centres in the UK and internationally. For details on how to book and pay for your SQE assessments, as well as request any reasonable adjustments, please visit the .
There are no exams. There are mock SQE1 assessments arranged in the last week of each semester in order to help you prepare for the requirements of the real assessments.
On successful completion of our SQE Law Essentials, including practice tests and mocks, you will obtain a completion certificate which will facilitate progression on to our LLM Legal Practice (SQE1&2).
Please note: This course does not lead to an academic award.
We provide you with a structured approach to your learning, with a clear and easy to navigate online learning platform (Blackboard ELITE), supported by our dedicated academic, administrative, design and development teams to ensure you have the very best learning experience.
Part-time is three semesters, totalling 16 weeks.
Full-time is two semesters of five weeks each.
This course includes five units of self-guided study per module. There are 1 hour facilitated Live Subject Support Sessions (LSSS) for each unit, each week (usually over a lunchtime session 12:30 – 13:30), focusing on areas of difficulty, volunteered by students or identified by learner analytics.
<¹û¶³´«Ã½ÊÓƵֱ²¥ class="heading">EmployabilityWe Set You Up For Success
We care about your career, which is why we offer support with job applications and other work experience opportunities as soon as you accept your place.
