Posted on 08/06/2025 5:55:47 PM PDT by grundle
Demanding solicitors’ exams are “discriminatory” and risk leading to a “lack of diversity” across the industry, lawyers have warned.
A petition signed by hundreds of trainee lawyers has called for the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) to be made easier over concerns the tests are “disproportionately challenging” and favour “certain backgrounds and learning styles”.
In an appeal to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), the lawyers said that low pass rates among ethnic minority candidates “will undoubtedly lead to a lack of diversity within the profession”.
Critics of the SQE have pointed to figures from the SRA showing that white candidates have significantly higher pass rates than those from ethnic minority backgrounds since the exam was introduced in 2021.
In the most recent round of testing in January, 70pc of white candidates passed the SQE compared to 49pc of Asian candidates and 37pc of black candidates, the SRA’s figures show.
The petition, which has now been signed by more than 650 lawyers, also claims that the pressure surrounding the exam is causing “extreme stress and anxiety” for candidates.
The SQE is now the main way to qualify as a lawyer. It sees candidates take a series of multiple-choice tests on subjects including criminal law and contracts. Trainees also take oral exams to test their advocacy skills.
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“Difficult exams are ‘discriminatory’, say junior lawyers”
Yeah, that’s the whole idea. An incompetent or even just subpar lawyer is dangerous to the public.
It sounds like they want equal outcomes. No thank you!
Against stupid people.
“””Demanding solicitors’ exams are “discriminatory” and risk leading to a “lack of diversity” across the industry, lawyers have warned. “”””
Yes, they discriminate against the retards.
And lazy.
Then let anyone be a lawyer. Thats what they are asking for, I know that, and I’m not even a lawyer.
Do the poor dears need a blankie and a nuck nuck?
What is easier than this? True/False? Maybe, minorities should get the answers before the tests?
Difficult exams are ‘discriminatory’, say junior lawyers
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Difficult exams are ‘discriminatory’, say the stupid junior lawyers
“70pc of white candidates passed the SQE compared to 49pc of Asian candidates and 37pc of black candidates”
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Perhaps the Yogis will study harder.
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HAHAHAHA!
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Whadda bunch of morons....
They’re NOT discrimatory; they’re like that to “sort the wheat from the shaff” without respect to race, ethenic background, etc..
Unless, of course, DEI is the utimate goal of law school rather than the best of the best. In which case, EVERYTHING (other than DEI) is discriminatory.
Suck it up, buttercups.....spit.
dolt fatigue
The opinion of someone who is lazy and stupid, and quite content remaining both lazy and stupid.
Just enough sense of shame to invent a ‘racism’ charge.
Discrimination against those not qualified is the whole idea behind merit hiring.
AI will fix that
as jackson said
its just boring legalese
Maybe they ought to just study this for awhile:
“Retards.”
As an advocate for the mentally disabled, I find your word choice offensive.
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