aaaaaaaaaaaaaa feck off with your "UK exams" question

Well said.

OP, it depends which part of the UK you want to work in.

England & Wales, depending on your current jurisdiction of qualification, a full shitload set of exams 

Scotland - you can apply for a practising certificate by off sending 12 tokens cut from the labels of 2 litre bottles of Irn-Bru.

it is a source of enormous chagrin to me that the Norn and English systems just basically let you do a form. And when I say how annoying it is they say "oh but common law". And I say "yes and what part of that do you think Scottish solicitors can't grasp? is it the jurisprudence? is it the quarter days with weird significance? is it the morris dancing? WHAT IS IT?"

Tell that the the average Herbies partner.

I still have rage flashbacks to the meeting in Linklaters a couple of years ago where a partner said he was the only solicitor in the room

I nearly leapt across the table and tore a piece out of his fat pasty throat with my teeth

didn't tho as my boss was there and is a massive jobsworth about that sort of thing

(my boss was an accountant and the diss was aimed squarely at me)

I also would have said "listen mate this tax value is definitely worth less than your fees on this case will be so how about you stop wanging on?"

Yep.  Buzz, can you draft the letter for group relief on stamp duty?  Well I could but given the SD will be £50 how about you save yourself some money and just pay it.

sadly my revenge did not extend beyond taking some extra biscuits in my pocket

didn't even get a pen