Solicitors

Regulated by Solicitors Regulation Authority.

Protected title: Solicitor
Legal basis: Solicitors Act 1974
Canonical record: the-solicitors-record

How somebody becomes one

A law degree or conversion, the Solicitors Qualifying Examination, and two years of qualifying work experience.

In law, and in Parliament

3,597 documents on legislation.gov.uk mention this profession, 688 of them Acts, the oldest from 1640. Hansard records 59,643 contributions mentioning it, across 280 whole debates.

Every Act and instrument that mentions them, what was said in Parliament, and what each search phrase catches by mistake — or the same for every profession here.