In this special episode of SQE Essentials, we shift focus to the SQE2 examination, offering high-impact advice from candidates who’ve been through the process and passed with distinction.

🎯 What you'll learn:

• Breakdown of the SQE2 format: oral vs written stations, skills assessed, and legal subjects covered
• Common pitfalls that lead to low marks — and how to avoid them
• How to manage your time, mindset, and stamina across the multi-day exam
• Tactical prep:
  ▪️ Using mock exams and roleplays effectively
  ▪️ Balancing accuracy vs fluency in written skills
  ▪️ Mastering client interviewing, advocacy, legal drafting, and case analysis
• Recommended resources, including the CELE SQE2 prep programme and practice station bank

🧠 Whether you’re weeks away from your exam or planning early, these tips will help you sharpen your focus and boost your confidence.

📲 Explore the full CELE SQE2 prep toolkit at celetraining.com or in the PASS-SQE App.

In this episode of SQE1 Essentials, we break down the types of beneficial interests under English trust law — a core component of the SQE1 syllabus and vital for understanding trust structures, beneficiary entitlements, and trustee powers.

🎯 Topics covered:

• Capital vs income: what beneficiaries may be entitled to receive
• Vested interests vs contingent interests, and how s.31 of the Trustee Act 1925 affects minors' income
• Successive interests: life tenants, remaindermen, and future interests
• The principle of Saunders v Vautier – when beneficiaries can collapse the trust
• Types of trusts:
  ▪️ Fixed trusts – requiring a complete list of beneficiaries (IRC v Broadway Cottages)
  ▪️ Discretionary trusts – governed by the “is or is not” test (McPhail v Doulton) and clarified in Re Baden (No. 2)
  ▪️ Bare trusts – absolute entitlement with no discretion
• Trustee obligations under the Trustee Act 2000, including the duty of impartiality (Nestle v NatWest)

📘 By the end of this episode, you’ll be able to distinguish between trust structures and accurately map out beneficiary rights in a range of scenarios.

📲 Learn more via the PASS-SQE App or at celetraining.com

In this episode of SQE1 Essentials, we examine the formal requirements for creating and constituting trusts in English law. This is a highly examinable area of Trusts law that blends strict formalism with equitable flexibility.

🎓 Topics covered include:

• The difference between inter vivos trusts and testamentary trusts
• Formal requirements for transferring personalty vs. land (realty)
• The three certainties revisited: intention, subject matter, objects
• Why equity will not perfect an imperfect gift or assist a volunteer
• The doctrine of incompletely constituted trusts and its consequences
• Key equitable exceptions:
  ▪️ Re Rose – correct steps taken
  ▪️ Pennington v Waine – unconscionability
  ▪️ Strong v Bird – donor becomes executor
  ▪️ Proprietary estoppel – reliance and detriment
• The rule against perpetuities and the 125-year vesting period

🧠 This episode is critical for distinguishing enforceable trusts from failed gifts and will equip you with both doctrinal clarity and case-based nuance.

📲 Access case summaries, diagrams, and practice questions in the CELE SQE App or at celetraining.com