Final report for Solicitors Regulation Authority on the potential causes of differential outcomes in legal professional assessments

This is the final report of the research commissioned by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to better understand the reasons behind differential outcomes by ethnicity in legal professional assessments. The SRA’s annual education and training monitoring reports show persistent differences in outcomes in the Legal Practice Course (LPC) and Common Professional Examination (also known as the Graduate Diploma in Law) qualification routes for solicitors. The difference is also evident in the new Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) data. Differential outcomes by ethnicity are a long-standing problem, affecting all levels of education and a range of professional assessments, not limited to the legal sector.