1. What our grading is
Kellys SQE Examiner is exam-preparation practice software. Each written or oral attempt you submit is graded by an artificial-intelligence model (currently Anthropic’s Claude for written grading, with OpenAI Whisper for speech-to-text and ElevenLabs for synthesised client voices in the oral assessor) against a rubric we have authored. Our rubrics are anchored on the Performance Indicators published by the Solicitors Regulation Authority for SQE2. The criteria, descriptors and weightings are intended to reflect the SRA’s published materials; the marking judgement itself is the AI’s.
2. What it is not
- Not SRA marking. Only the Solicitors Regulation Authority and its delegated assessment provider mark the actual SQE2. The grade you receive from Kellys is not produced by, endorsed by, or affiliated with the SRA or Kaplan, and is not a prediction of, or guarantee of, your real SQE2 result.
- Not legal advice. Nothing on the Service — whether in scenarios, model answers, rubrics, feedback or any other AI output — is legal advice or may be relied on as such. The Service does not create a solicitor-client relationship.
- Not infallible. Large language models can produce confident-sounding output that is wrong, inconsistent, misapplied or out of date. Use Kellys alongside, not instead of, authoritative SRA materials, reputable textbooks and supervised training.
- Not predictive. No statistical claim is made that a particular Kellys grade corresponds to a particular SRA mark, decile or pass probability.
3. AI errors and reliability
You agree and acknowledge that AI-generated output is, by its nature, probabilistic and may include:
- inaccurate statements of law (so-called “hallucinations”), including fabricated case names, citations or statutory references;
- misapplied or misnamed legal terms of art (for example, confusing rescission with repudiation, or specific performance with damages in lieu);
- outdated content where the law has changed since the underlying model was trained;
- inconsistent grades for substantively similar attempts; and
- misinterpretation of your attempt, particularly where handwriting OCR, accented audio, or partial submissions are involved.
You must not rely on Kellys as your sole preparation tool. Use it as one of several inputs into your study, cross-refer to the SRA’s own assessment specification and sample questions, and where you are unsure about the law, consult an authoritative textbook or a regulated solicitor.
4. Right to human review (UK GDPR Article 22)
AI grading is a decision based solely on automated processing within the meaning of Article 22 of the UK GDPR. You have the right to obtain human intervention, to express your point of view, and to contest the decision.
To exercise these rights, email hello@kellys.ai with the subject “Article 22 review”, include the attempt identifier shown in your account, and explain in your own words why you disagree with the grade. The founder will reconsider the application of the rubric and respond within 14 days. Human review reconsiders whether the AI applied the rubric appropriately; it does not opine on whether you would pass the actual SQE2.
5. What we do with your attempts
- We use your attempts to generate your grade and feedback and to operate the Service.
- We do not use your attempts to train, fine-tune or evaluate any AI model. Our contracts with Anthropic and OpenAI prohibit them from doing so.
- We record non-identifying metadata (station, prompt version, model, token counts, score, latency, cost) in our audit log for security, accounting and product improvement.
- We do not share your attempts with any third party other than the sub-processors listed in our Privacy Policy, each of which is bound by a written data-processing agreement.
- Where reasonably possible, your attempt text is passed through automated PII redaction before it leaves our systems. The redaction is heuristic and is not a substitute for you not pasting third-party data.
6. What you must not do
You must not submit to the Service:
- any real client materials, including memoranda, attendance notes, draft letters, statements, witness evidence, correspondence with the other side, or any documents subject to legal professional privilege;
- anonymised but still identifiable scenarios drawn from your training, work placement or vacation scheme. Removing names is not enough where facts, dates, locations or financial figures could re-identify the parties;
- personal data of any third party (including witnesses, counterparties or counsel) where you do not have a lawful basis to share it;
- content protected by confidentiality, copyright or other third-party rights;
- content that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing or designed to test the AI’s safety guard-rails.
The Service is for invented or wholly fictional SQE2-style scenarios. Breach of this section is a material breach of our Terms of Service.
7. Founder credential disclosure
The founder of Kellys is a solicitor candidate who has passed SQE1 and SQE2 and is awaiting a qualifying training period. The founder is not currently authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to act as a solicitor, does not hold a practising certificate, does not carry on reserved legal activities through the Service, and is not holding themselves out as a regulated solicitor by operating the Service. The rubric design and editorial review of scenarios and model answers draw on the founder’s study and personal preparation for SQE2, not on regulated legal practice.
8. Indemnification reminder
If you breach section 6 of this disclaimer or section 5 of the Terms of Service, you are required to indemnify Kellys against the consequences of that breach. This includes any cost we incur in responding to a complaint, a regulator or a third party as a result of what you uploaded.
9. How to challenge a grade
Two routes:
- Informal re-grade. Email hello@kellys.ai with the attempt identifier and your concern. We aim to re-run grading on a current prompt version and reply within 5 working days. This is not a statutory route.
- Article 22 review. The statutory route described in section 4. Reserved for disputes about the automated nature of the decision.
10. Contact
Email hello@kellys.ai.