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You are not automatically ineligible to become a solicitor if you have committed a crime in the past. If your conviction is not one of the offences that do not need to be disclosed, the SRA will carefully consider the information given to them to decide whether you have improved your character. Factors that support your application are: evidence of successful rehabilitation or remorse, an event that only took place once or happened a long time ago, or credible supporting references. However, factors that will harm your application include: little evidence of remorse, recent or repeated behaviour, failing to be upfront and disclose the conviction, or having committed a crime that hurt the vulnerable (children, the elderly, those in care). The SRA also state that the specified offences detailed earlier are the most serious, and thus likely to result in a refusal.
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