SRA Handbook

Completion of the LPC

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Regulation 16: Completion of the LPC

16.1

You must have satisfactorily completed the LPC to be admitted as a solicitor.

Guidance note:

(i)

The following modes of studying the LPC are approved by us:

(a)

full-time mode (over one academic year); or

(b)

part-time mode (over two academic years); or

(c)

distance learning; or

(d)

any other mode of delivery as approved by us.

(ii)

The LPC, as of 2010, consists of:

(a)

Stage 1 - Core subjects; and

(b)

Stage 2 - Elective subjects.

(iii)

Prior to this, the core and elective elements of the LPC were integrated. Some courses operated under our new requirements from the academic year starting in 2009, while others running at the same time operated under our old requirements.

(iv)

Regardless of the requirements in force at the time, when these regulations say LPC, we mean the course as a whole including both elective and core subjects.