In short. SQEase (sqease.uk) is an online practice platform for the SQE1, the first stage of the Solicitors Qualifying Examination in England and Wales. It is built for law students and SQE1 candidates. It has thousands of SQE1-style single best answer questions for FLK1 and FLK2, mapped to the SRA's assessment specification, with an explanation of the right answer and of every wrong option. Lex explains any question and builds tests you describe, and paid plans turn your own notes into practice questions. SQEase works on the web and on iPhone. The free plan gives five questions and fifteen Lex messages a day. Paid plans on the web are £30 (Core), £50 (Pro) and £80 (Ultra) a month, and Lex is on every plan.
The SQE replaced the LPC in 2021 with a promise: a single national assessment, fairer access to the profession, more candidates, lower cost. The qualification has delivered on the access part. The study materials around it have not kept up.
Most candidates we spoke to were stitching together five or six tools — a textbook for the syllabus, a question bank for practice, a flashcard app for retention, a chatbot for confused moments, a separate timer for mock conditions, and somewhere, a spreadsheet to track progress. None of those tools knew what the others knew. The chatbot couldn’t see the questions you got wrong. The question bank couldn’t pull from your tutor’s notes. The flashcards weren’t generated from your weakest topics.
SQEase started as a personal project in mid-2025. Finlay was supporting his girlfriend through her SQE1 preparation and kept running into the same problem: the existing tools weren’t built for how real candidates actually study. He built a small tool that could turn her notes into practice questions that actually felt like the exam. The tool worked. The grades improved. Other people asked to use it.
We’ve kept building, but the original constraint hasn’t changed: every answer must be traceable to a source. Every new question is checked before it reaches you — answered again, independently, and both answers must agree — and if anything is in doubt, the question is held back. Lex builds its explanations from retrieved sources and shows them. If we can’t tell you where a fact came from, we don’t put it in front of you.
This is unfashionable in 2026. Most software celebrates fluency. We celebrate refusal — every question held back is a question we’ve protected you from. That’s the trade-off we’re making, and it’s the trade-off we think a regulated profession deserves.