Once your application is approved, the SRA will ask you for our preferred admission date. They will then issue a certificate of satisfaction confirming they will admit you as a solicitor on your preferred admission date.

If you want to work as a solicitor in England and Wales, you’ll need a practising certificate. Conditions may be attached to a practising certificate under certain circumstances.

If you were exempt from SQE2, you might need to demonstrate your English or Welsh language competence to the SRA. This will happen after you’ve been admitted as a solicitor and before you apply for your first practising certificate.

Solicitors in England and Wales don’t need to count Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours.

Instead, you’re expected to keep reflecting on the quality of your work and take steps to improve your knowledge when needed.