SQE1 Legal Services Practice Questions

Legal Services is 12–16% of FLK1 and sits in session 1 from January 2027. It is the only FLK1 subject where money laundering is tested. Practise original questions on regulation, money laundering, financial services and funding.

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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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  • 40 original legal services questions with explanations
  • FLK1, session 1
  • SRA blueprint: 12–16% of FLK1
Free sample · Question 1 of 3FLK1 · Legal services

Ravinder wants to sue a builder for £14,000 for defective work on her kitchen. She asks her solicitor how the claim could be funded and mentions that she has comprehensive home and car insurance policies. She has not considered whether they might help. What should the solicitor do first in relation to funding?

What our legal services questions cover

  • The SRA’s principles and risk-based regulation, reserved legal activities and other regulated providers
  • Professional indemnity insurance and overriding legal obligations, including the Equality Act 2010
  • Money laundering: the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 offences and defences, reporting suspicions and tipping off
  • Customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence and politically exposed persons under the Money Laundering Regulations 2017
  • Financial services: the general prohibition, specified investments and activities, and the exemption for solicitors’ firms
  • Funding: private retainers, conditional fee agreements, damages-based agreements, fixed fees, legal aid and legal expenses insurance
Line drawing of a law firm reception desk with a filing cabinet, a padlocked folder and a magnifying glass over a document

This list is our own summary of the subject, written for practice. The SRA publishes the full Functioning Legal Knowledge list for FLK1 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 legal services drill

Rules the questions test most

  1. Reserved legal activities under the Legal Services Act 2007 include the exercise of rights of audience, the conduct of litigation, reserved instrument activities, probate activities, notarial activities and the administration of oaths. Only authorised or exempt persons may carry them on.
  2. A solicitor who knows or suspects money laundering avoids committing a principal offence by making an authorised disclosure to the National Crime Agency, through the firm’s money laundering reporting officer, and waiting for consent where needed.
  3. Telling a client that a suspicious activity report has been made, when that is likely to prejudice an investigation, is the offence of tipping off.
  4. Carrying on a regulated activity by way of business without authorisation or exemption breaches the general prohibition in section 19 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. Solicitors’ firms can rely on the Part 20 exemption only where the activity is incidental to their legal services and the other conditions are met.
  5. Under a conditional fee agreement the solicitor receives a success fee only if the client wins; in a personal injury claim the success fee is capped at 25% of the damages for pain, suffering and loss of amenity and past financial loss.

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Common questions

Where is money laundering tested on SQE1?

In FLK1 only. The SRA blueprint says Ethics and Professional Conduct and money laundering questions can make up to 20% of the questions in an SQE1 sitting, with money laundering assessed in FLK1 only, as part of Legal Services.

How much of FLK1 is Legal Services?

The SRA blueprint gives Legal Services 12–16% of FLK1, about 20 to 27 of the paper’s 170 questions, in session 1 from January 2027.

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 legal services 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), checked November 2026.

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