SQE1 practice questions

A woman instructs a solicitor to form a private company limited by shares for her new catering business. She will be the only shareholder and a director. The company will adopt the model articles.

She asks the solicitor to name her brother, who lives abroad, as a second director because she thinks this will reassure the company's bank. Her brother does not yet know about the business, but she is sure that he would not object. He has already verified his identity with Companies House as a director of another company.

The solicitor has prepared the application for registration, the statement of capital and initial shareholdings and the statement of compliance.

A private limited company runs a weekly street market under a licence granted by a local authority. Last month the authority revoked the licence after receiving complaints about noise. It did not tell the company about the complaints or give it any opportunity to respond before revoking the licence.

The company wants to reopen the market as soon as possible. A solicitor is preparing a claim for judicial review on its behalf. The company's managing director, who has run markets for 20 years, instructs the solicitor to claim only damages of £40,000 for lost trade, because he believes that the court will not interfere with the authority's decision itself.

A woman bought a new sofa online from a furniture retailer for her home. Before she ordered it, the retailer's website stated that the sofa's frame was made of solid oak. Relying on that statement, she ordered the sofa.

It was delivered with a printed care label stating the frame was, in fact, a mix of oak veneer and manufactured board. She did not notice this until months later, when a leg cracked. The retailer says the website description was 'just marketing' and that the care label reflects the true materials.

A woman borrowed her flatmate's expensive coat without asking, to wear to a party, genuinely believing the flatmate would have agreed if asked, based on their long-standing practice of freely borrowing each other's clothes. She returned the coat, undamaged, the next morning. The flatmate was later upset to find it missing overnight and reported it to the police as stolen.

A company issued a claim form against a man for the price of goods it had sold him. The claim form stated that particulars of claim would follow. It was deemed served on the man on Tuesday 7 September, and the particulars of claim were deemed served on him on Thursday 16 September.

The man disputes the claim and wants to defend it.

Six cousins agreed to buy a holiday cottage together, each contributing an equal sixth of the price, intending to hold the beneficial interest in equal shares as tenants in common. The transfer names all six of them as buyers, with no restriction on the number of legal owners.

A consumer charity believes that the regulator of solicitors in England and Wales is failing to protect consumers when it makes rules on the price information that firms must publish. The charity has also received complaints from its members about poor service by individual firms of solicitors. It wants the regulator's performance to be reviewed by the body with statutory power to oversee it.

A minister makes a statutory instrument under powers conferred by an Act of Parliament. The enabling Act provides that instruments made under it are 'subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.'

A woman owns a registered freehold house with a large garden, all shown as a single parcel on the title plan. She is selling the rear third of the garden to a neighbour, who will build a house on it.

Her solicitor is preparing the transfer of part on form TP1. The buyer's solicitor has supplied a plan drawn by the buyer's architect. It is marked "for identification purposes only", shows the new plot edged in red and does not state a scale.