When should students enrol for student membership of the Solicitors Regulation Authority?
Students are normally advised to enrol as student members in March of the year that they will commence the LPC. However, student enrolment can be taken out at any time, so the Solicitors Regulation Authority suggests that students with convictions or otherwise to declare, enrol early so that they can establish whether they will be allowed to continue to qualify as solicitors. (It is now a requirement, when applying for admission as a solicitor of England and Wales, to obtain from the Criminal Records Bureau a satisfactory criminal records check, which includes details of any current and spent convictions, police cautions, reprimands and final warnings held on the Police National Computer. The Solicitors Regulation Authority also uses overseas criminal records information services whenever appropriate.
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