SQE1 study plan

Map the formation, liability, taxation and dissolution rules for sole traders, general partnerships, LLPs and private limited companies into a single comparison grid.

Draft model clauses for a partnership agreement and for a company's articles covering deadlock, profit share and transfer of shares.

Trace the sources of English law (common law, equity, statute, retained EU law) and place each within the court hierarchy on a diagram.

Explain aloud, without notes, the doctrine of precedent and the rules of statutory interpretation, then mark your explanation against a written checklist.

Distinguish express, resulting and constructive trusts, and fixed from discretionary trusts, by writing the required elements of each from memory.

Apply the three certainties and the beneficiary principle to five short fact patterns and record the outcome and reasoning for each.

Draft a stage-by-stage checklist for a freehold residential conveyancing transaction from instruction to post-completion, naming the searches, enquiries and documents at each stage.

Calculate SDLT on three sample purchases, including one lease and one additional-dwelling case, and reconcile each figure against the worked steps.

Apply the sections 171 to 177 Companies Act 2006 directors' duties to four scenarios involving conflicts of interest and corporate opportunity, identifying breach and consequence.

Explain the rules on distributions, maintenance of capital and unlawful dividends, then test yourself with 15 calculations.

Work through trustees' duties and powers (investment, delegation, advancement, appointment) to produce a one-page trustee decision tree.

Answer two essay-style questions on fiduciary duty and breach of trust remedies under timed conditions.

Diagram the priority rules for registered and unregistered land, showing where overreaching, notice and overriding interests bite.

Draft a leasehold covenants summary covering enforceability of positive and restrictive covenants on assignment, together with the remedies for breach.

Re-test the week 1 legal system topics (precedent, interpretation, court hierarchy) and score at least 80% before moving on.

Sit a 40-question mixed mock across domains 1, 5, 8 and 12 under timed conditions and log every wrong answer with the rule it tested.

Build a term-classification chart (condition, warranty, innominate term) and apply it to four breach scenarios, selecting the correct remedy for each.

Apply misrepresentation, mistake, duress and undue influence to six short scenarios and record the remedy available in each.

Map the elements of negligence (duty, breach, causation, remoteness) and apply them in three fully written problem answers including pure economic loss and psychiatric injury.

Summarise occupiers' liability, private nuisance and the rule in Rylands v Fletcher in one page each, then self-quiz from the notes with them closed.

Draft a litigation timetable from pre-action letter to trial, naming each step, the relevant pre-action protocol or CPR Part, and the sanction for non-compliance.

Compare negotiation, mediation, arbitration and litigation on cost, enforceability, confidentiality and time in a table, then choose an appropriate forum for four disputes with reasons.

Construct a criminal liability framework (actus reus, mens rea, coincidence, causation) and apply it to homicide and non-fatal offence scenarios.

Explain the theft offences under the Theft Act 1968, including the section 6 direction on intention, and apply them to five scenarios.

Distinguish legal from equitable easements and profits, and apply the four characteristics of an easement to five claimed rights.

Work through co-ownership and trusts of land, covering severance, overreaching and Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 applications, and produce a step list.

Prepare client and office ledger entries for eight transactions including a mixed receipt and a bill of costs, and balance both ledgers.

Apply the SRA Accounts Rules to six fact patterns covering third-party payments, interest, residual balances and banking, recording the compliant answer for each.

Outline the grounds, procedure, time limits, standing and remedies for judicial review, then apply them to three administrative decisions.

Summarise in a one-page timeline how the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and retained EU law affect domestic law, and check it against the statute.

Sit a full 90-question timed mixed mock spanning all twelve domains.

Review every error logged in weeks 1 to 7 and restate the underlying rule for each in your own words.