SQE1 Ethics and Professional Conduct Questions

Ethics and Professional Conduct is examined pervasively across both FLK papers. Practise original questions that set the SRA Principles and Codes of Conduct in realistic client situations from every subject.

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170 five-option questions in two timed sessions of 85 (2 hours 33 minutes each), in the January 2027 FLK1 format, with a score by subject and an explanation for every answer.

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  • 72 original ethics questions with explanations
  • FLK1 and FLK2
  • SRA blueprint: Pervasive; with money laundering, up to 20% of a sitting
Free sample · Question 1 of 3FLK1 · Ethics

Rashid Karim's company is defending a claim by a supplier for £40,000. Rashid admits that the debt is owed but wants more time to pay. He asks his solicitor, Elena Novak, to state in the defence that the supplier's invoices were fraudulent, saying 'it will scare them into settling'. Elena has seen nothing at all suggesting fraud. Which of the following best describes Elena's position?

What our ethics questions cover

  • The seven SRA Principles and how they interact, including when they conflict
  • Conflicts of interest and own-interest conflicts; acting for more than one client
  • Confidentiality and disclosure, and information barriers
  • Duties to the court: not misleading the court, and withdrawing when a client insists on lying
  • Undertakings, client identification, competence and supervision
  • Client care, costs information and complaints handling; referrals, introducers and gifts
  • Managers’ and compliance officers’ duties under the Code of Conduct for Firms; SRA warning notices on NDAs and SLAPPs
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This list is our own summary of the subject, written for practice. The SRA publishes the full Functioning Legal Knowledge list for both papers in the SQE1 Assessment Specification.

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Take the full timed FLK1 mock exam

170 five-option questions in two timed sessions of 85 (2 hours 33 minutes each), in the January 2027 FLK1 format, with a score by subject and an explanation for every answer.

Or try the free ethics drill

Rules the questions test most

  1. The SRA Principles require you to act in a way that upholds the rule of law and the proper administration of justice, public trust in the profession, independence, honesty, integrity, equality, diversity and inclusion, and in the best interests of each client. Where Principles conflict, those protecting the wider public interest take precedence over a client’s interests.
  2. You must not act where there is a conflict, or a significant risk of one, between your own interests and a client’s. For two clients with a conflict, the narrow exceptions are a substantially common interest or competing for the same objective, each with informed written consent and safeguards.
  3. You must keep each client’s affairs confidential unless disclosure is required or permitted by law or the client consents, and you must disclose to a client all information material to their matter that you know of, with limited exceptions.
  4. You must not mislead the court. If a client admits guilt but wants to plead not guilty, you can still put the prosecution to proof, but you cannot advance a positive case you know to be false.
  5. You must perform all undertakings you give within an agreed timescale or, if none was agreed, within a reasonable amount of time.

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Common questions

How much of SQE1 is ethics?

The SRA blueprint says Ethics and Professional Conduct, together with money laundering, can make up to 20% of the questions in an SQE1 sitting. Ethics questions can appear in any subject and either session.

Which rules do SQE1 ethics questions test?

The SRA Principles, the SRA Code of Conduct for Solicitors, RELs, RFLs and RSLs (the SRA Code of Conduct for Solicitors in the assessment), and the Code of Conduct for Firms as it applies to managers and compliance officers, including situations in SRA warning notices such as NDAs and SLAPPs.

Take the full timed FLK1 mock exam

170 five-option questions in two timed sessions of 85 (2 hours 33 minutes each), in the January 2027 FLK1 format, with a score by subject and an explanation for every answer.

Or try the free ethics drill

More SQE1 subjects

Subjects, blueprint and format: SRA: SQE1 Assessment Specification (from 1 September 2026) · SRA: SQE1 Functioning Legal Knowledge blueprint (Annex 4) · SRA blog: Understanding SQE1 (24 September 2026) · SRA Standards and Regulations, checked November 2026.

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