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Legal Profession Admission Board
Overseas Qualified Lawyers
If you completed the academic requirements for admission in a foreign jurisdiction (outside Australia), you must have your qualification assessed by the Board, before you apply for admission.
If you have been admitted in a foreign jurisdiction (outside Australia), you must have your practical legal training (PLT) assessed by the Board, before you apply for admission.
AUSTRALIA-UK Free Trade Agreement
The Australian-UK Free Trade Agreement, which came into effect on 31 May 2023, has established a Legal Services Regulatory Dialogue that, amongst other things, will consider enhancing the professional mobility of lawyers between Australia and the UK, but has not introduced mutual recognition arrangements that will immediately allow UK lawyers to be admitted as lawyers in Australia (or vice versa) without their having to undergoing the usual application for admission processes applicable in each Australian jurisdiction.
If there is any change in the way the qualifications of United Kingdom qualified lawyers are to be assessed or treated for admission purposes, this website will be updated to indicate such changes.
We acknowledge Aboriginal people as the First Nations Peoples of NSW and pay our respects to Elders past, present, and future.
Informed by lessons of the past, Department of Communities and Justice is improving how we work with Aboriginal people and communities. We listen and learn from the knowledge, strength and resilience of Stolen Generations Survivors, Aboriginal Elders and Aboriginal communities.
You can access our apology to the Stolen Generations.