SRA Training Regulations 2011 - Part 1 Qualification Regs forms part of Edition 3 of the Handbook, which came into effect on 18 April 2012.
Subject to the QLTR and/or QLTSR, you cannot be admitted as a solicitor unless you have satisfactorily completed a PSC.
You may only attend a PSC:
after you have completed all LPC assessments and during the training contract; or
if you are a FILEX who is not required to serve under a training contract by virtue of regulation 30.
If you are a trainee solicitor, you cannot complete the Client Care and Professional Standards module of the PSC until you have served at least six months' full-time or equivalent of your training contract.
Guidance note:
If you commence a training contract as described in the guidance note to regulation 20, you may commence a PSC at the beginning of your training contract, and before you have received your LPC Stage 2 results.
This is on the basis that subsequently obtaining the results of Stage 2 of the LPC and passing is a condition of satisfactory completion of the PSC.
We will also recognise satisfactory completion of the PSC if you initially fail Stage 2 of the LPC, but are continuing in your training contract as described in the guidance note to regulation 20.
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