EVENING
COURSE
This is a two year course aimed at unqualified support
staff working on the accountancy side of law firms.
The
course has the full backing of The Law Society and the qualification
obtained at the end of the course is now recognised as the official
Law Accounting Qualification for staff working in solicitors'
offices in Scotland. Course venues are in Aberdeen, Dundee,
Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness
The
course is in seven parts, three being taken in the first year
and four in the second. The subjects are:-
1)
Cash room administration
2) Investment and Executry administration
3) Accounting with Trust administration
4) Income Tax and Capital Gains Tax
5) Inheritance Tax
6) Feeing
7) Conduct of Investment Business
(Financial Services)
There
is an examination after each section and a Certificate is given
for each pass. Workbooks are provided for each subject which
the candidate can keep and each course normally lasts 10 weeks,
(one evening per week). The examination papers are checked by
an external examiner appointed by The Law Society/SOLAS Joint
Examination Board.
There
are facilities for resitting examinations as necessary.
Full
Membership of the Society is open to those who obtain the necessary
Diploma from the Joint SOLAS/Law Society Examination Board and
have been employed in legal accounting work for a solicitor
or firm of solicitors carrying on private practice in Scotland
for a continuous period of three years prior to application
for admission to the Society. Persons accepted for full
membership are accordingly entitled to use the initials SLA.
Associate
Membership of the Society is open to those who obtain the necessary
Diploma from the Joint SOLAS/Law Society Examination Board and
have been employed in legal accounting work in a court, local
authority, government department or agency or in the legal department
of a bank or in such other offices and in such circumstances
as Council may consider appropriate for a continuous period
of three years prior to application for admission to the Society.
For further information on the SOLAS two-year course, including costs, venues, start dates, and application forms, please contact:
Janette McKinlay
Legal Education Department
The Law Society of Scotland
26 Drumsheugh Gardens
Edinburgh EH3 7YR
Telephone 0131 226 7411
e-mail janettemckinlay@lawscot.org.uk |
