About Law Academia UK
Built by practitioners. Run like a chambers.
Law Academia UK was founded in 2020 by four practising solicitors who looked at the existing SQE prep market and saw expensive theatre. We built the alternative — academically rigorous, examination- honest, and priced for the people who actually need it.
Our story
Five years. Three exam reforms. One consistent method.
In 2020 the SRA was already piloting what would become the Solicitors Qualifying Examination. The big providers were charging £15,000+ for prep, structured around vocational courses that had grown out of the LPC era.
We started Law Academia UK with a different bet: that the SQE rewards doctrinal precision, examination technique, and skills training that mirrors real practice — not lecture theatres and PDF packs. Five years later, the bet has paid out. Our SQE1 first-attempt pass rate has tracked at 75–85% across every cohort since 2022, against an SRA national average that has hovered between 51% and 58%.
We don’t run subsidised programmes. We don’t carry MBA-tier marketing budgets. We’ve stayed lean by design — small cohorts, high-touch faculty, no middle managers. The fee structure (£395, £995, £1,295) reflects what it actually costs to deliver, plus a margin that pays the solicitors who teach you.
Faculty
The four founders.Still teaching every cohort.
No graduate teaching assistants. No outsourced content. Every module is led by a founding solicitor who currently practises in that area.
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Aisha Khan
English Legal System · Constitutional · Administrative
Solicitor at a London public law firm. Eight years’ experience in judicial review and public inquiries. Lead author of our ELS and Public Law modules.
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Daniel Ofori
Contract · Tort · Dispute Resolution
Commercial disputes solicitor. Eleven years at a mid-tier City firm. Has marked over 4,000 mock papers across LLB and SQE1 cohorts since 2021.
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Maya Bennett
Criminal Law · Criminal Practice · Advocacy
Criminal defence solicitor, higher rights of audience. Twelve years in practice including five at a leading London criminal firm. Trains our SQE2 advocacy module.
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James Whitfield
Equity · Land · Company · Wills
Private client and property solicitor. Fourteen years in practice including partnership at a regional firm. Writes our property practice and wills modules.
Principles
Four rules we won't break.
Principles
Practitioners teach. Period.
No one teaches a module who hasn’t practised in that area within the last24 months. If a faculty member leaves practice, they leave teaching.
Principles
The exam is the artefact.
Every module ends in examination-format practice. SQE1 means MCQs. SQE2 means timed skills stations. LLB means problem questions and essays. No exceptions.
Principles
Feedback inside 72 hours.
Submitted work is marked and returned with substantive comments within three working days. Always. We staff for it, we don’t outsource it.
Principles
One fee. No upsells.
The number on the pricing page is the number you pay. No premium tier, no “elite mentorship” add-on, no exam-week panic packages.
Want to know what your money buys?
No graduate teaching assistants. No outsourced content. Every module is led by a founding solicitor who currently practises in that area.