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Solicitors and FCILEx Practitioners

The CLC encourages Solicitors and FCILEx Practitioners with relevant specialist experience to consider converting to CLC regulation. CLC Lawyers are regulated by a specialist regulator with a rule book tailored to Conveyancing and Probate practice.  

Applicants must hold a current and valid membership or practising certificate free from conditions and provide information about their most recent year’s CPD, which should support the licence type they are applying for (Conveyancing or Probate).

Applicants must evidence (at the point of applying) that they have met the CLC’s standard annual CPD requirements. This enables applicants to:

  1. Demonstrate their legal knowledge is up to date and comparable to CLC lawyers by providing evidence that they have maintained their technical legal knowledge as well as occupational experience relevant to the licence they intend to apply for; and
  2. Provide a copy of their most recent Training Record detailing the types of activities that that have completed to keep their legal, occupational, and professional skills up to date, such as, commercial CPD activities, employer led in-house training sessions and CLC webinars.

The table below shows the requirements for Solicitors and FCILEx Practitioners seeking to become a CLC Lawyer.

Lawyer

Non-CLC Educational Evidence

Additional CLC Educational Requirements

Occupational Evidence

Additional CLC Requirements

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Fellows of CILEx Lawyers with CILEx Practitioner Rights in Conveyancing and/or Probate

Level 6 CILEX Qualifications for Conveyancing and Advanced Commercial property.


CILEX Regulation Practising Certificate for Fellowship and Practitioner Rights.

CLC/SQA Level 6 Unit:

Managing the Office and Client Accounts.

Evidence from CILEX that Practitioner Rights were awarded for Conveyancing and/or Probate.

Regulatory, employment, financial and criminality screening.


CPD evidence.

Solicitors PRE-SQE

LPC Transcripts or if older than 6 years, the past 12 months CPD evidence.

N/A

Regulatory, employment, financial and criminality screening.


CPD evidence.

Solicitors qualified through SQE

SQE Education Transcripts evidencing a Pass on Conveyancing and/or Probate related topics (exams)    

CLC/SQA Level 6 Unit:

Managing the Office and Client Accounts.

Regulatory, employment, financial and criminality screening.


CPD evidence.

Solicitors that obtained their Practising Rights through the Qualified Lawyer Transfer Scheme (QLTS) PRE-SQE


Legal Qualifications obtained Outside England and Wales

QLTS  – OSCE transfer documentation from the SRA  

OSCE are required to complete each of the 3 units in the SQA Level 6 Diploma (Conveyancing or Probate Law and Practice).


Exemptions are limited to the two units:-


Unit:

Conveyancing Law and Practice


Unit:

Law of Will Succession and Grants of Representation


And only granted when the candidate has fully demonstrated to an approved Training Provider that they have passed equivalent assessments on an approved QLTS OSCE program.

Regulatory, employment, financial and criminality screening.


CPD evidence.

You can download a PDF copy of this table here

 

Adverse Disclosures and Information

Individuals that are subject to ongoing criminal investigation/action, regulatory disciplinary investigations, action or appeal processes with any enforcement or regulatory body are not able to pursue a licensing application until the outcome of the adverse event is known. This extends to:

1. Solicitors, FCILEx lawyers and/or FCA regulated Financial Controllers:

(a) with unspent suspensions/disqualifications.

(b) that have been removed from the Solicitors roll/CILEx or FCA register because of disciplinary findings and who have not yet had their licence reinstated.

2. Owners, Directors, Members, Partners, HoLP and HoFA of CLC regulated practices that have been formally notified that the practice is in continued non-compliance and/or subject to disciplinary allegations, investigations or proceedings are unable to pursue any licensing applications.

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