Requalifying into Scotland

You must complete the Certificate of Eligibility application form. There is a link to this form at the bottom of this page.

As part of your Certificate of Eligibility application, you must also submit to us a completed Disclosure Scotland form (in Word format), including a payment reference number. Please do not submit this form to Disclosure Scotland. It must be sent to the Law Society of Scotland with your Certificate of Eligibility application. To do this, you need to download the Word version of the Disclosure Scotland application form from its website or via the link at bottom of this page.  Full details on how to complete the form are below.

Lastly, you will have to consider whether you would like to apply for any exemptions from the Qualified Lawyers Assessment exams.  If so, you will also need to submit those exemption applications, when you apply for your Certificate of Eligibility.  Full details of applying for exemptions can be found on our Qualified Lawyers Assessment webpage.

It is recommended you apply for a Certificate of Eligibility four months before the date of the first examination of the Qualified Lawyers Assessment you intend to sit.

You will need to submit the following with your application for a Certificate of Eligibility:

• A Certificate of Good Standing from your home Bar Association (for details of what this must show, see Schedule 5 of the Admission as Solicitor (Scotland) Regulations 2019)
• A recent photograph of yourself
• A completed Disclosure Scotland form with payment reference number
• A copy birth certificate or abbreviated birth certificate
• One form of photographic identification
• One form of identification showing your current home address
• Any Qualified Lawyers Assessment exam exemption applications that you would like to make.

How to complete a Disclosure guide

1. When given the option to select application type, please select ‘standard’.
2. You can only submit a Word document with your Certificate of Eligibility application. We cannot accept PDF.
3. If you have middle names, please include all of them on the form.
4. Ensure your address history covers a full five years, up until the month when applying. For example: if you apply in October 2021, make sure your address history goes back as far as October 2016. Addresses should be listed in reverse order starting with your current address. If your current address is your family home and you have recently moved back there, please put the date that you returned to that address, in the 'resident from' box. Do not put the date that you originally moved into that property, unless you have lived there on a continuous, uninterrupted basis. This may mean that you have to list some addresses, such as family homes, twice, if you have lived there on separate occasions.
5. If you don’t have enough space on the application form for all of your addresses, you can send an email with extra addresses to exams@lawscot.org.uk
6. Pay Disclosure Scotland directly, using the payment portal within the application form. Remember to include your payment reference on the form.
7. Fill in the form up to and including section 6. The Society will complete the remaining sections.
8. Make sure your address ID matches your current address.

• The fee for obtaining a Certificate of Eligibility is £575 You will receive an invoice from the Society once your application has been processed. Payment method is by bank transfer or over the phone.
• There is a fee for each exemption application that you submit with your Certificate of Eligibility application.  Details of that fee are on the appropriate form.
• The Disclosure Scotland fee is £25. Pay Disclosure Scotland directly, using the payment portal within the application form.

Your Certificate of Eligibility application form, Disclosure Scotland application form, any exam exemption applications and all supporting documentation, including your identification documents, should be emailed to exam@lawscot.org.uk .

The format of the Disclosure Scotland application must be in Word document format (as the Society is required to countersign the application before sending on to Disclosure Scotland).  However, it is helpful if the remaining documents are in pdf format.