According to the SRA regulations, overseas lawyers are required to gain at least two years’ work experience in legal practice in a common law jurisdiction of which at least one year must have been gained by practising the law of England and Wales. This experience must have been gained either in a firm or other organisation regulated by the SRA or under the direct supervision of a solicitor (must have held a current practising certificate when they were supervising you and have previously held at least four such practising certificates) who had been admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales.
There is no restriction on the jurisdiction to get this experience. Overseas Lawyers can get experience by working as an intern, paralegal and/or legal executive etc. in any law firm or organization regulated by the SRA, which could be in England and Wales, or India, or Singapore, or Dubai, or Australia etc.
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