LLB Law

Our Law degree provides a grounding for a career in law by focussing on the academic and professional foundations for sitting the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) 1 and 2 and the Bar Training Course.

The course:

• covers necessary legal subjects referred to in the professional bodies’ qualifying regulations as the Foundations of Legal Knowledge and the SQE1 Functioning Legal Knowledge (FLK) subject areas.
• includes qualifications, of which the law elements have been developed in partnership with legal professionals representing firms local to the University.
• is delivered from a department at the University with almost twenty years experience of in delivering flexible face to face and online higher education programmes.
• is recognised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) as a Qualifying Law Degree (QLD).

• WHAT YOU WILL STUDY
• ENTRY REQUIREMENTS & APPLYING
• TEACHING & ASSESSMENT
• CAREER PROSPECTS
• FEES & FUNDING
• PROGRAMME SPECIFICATION
• ACCOMMODATION
• INTERNATIONAL

What you will study

YEAR 1 (LEVEL 4)

MODULES

• Legal System and Skills (core)
• Public Law: Constitutional and Administrative Law (core)
• Contract Law (core)
• European Law and Global Problems (core)
• Crime, Society and Social Policy (core)
• Law in Practice (core)

YEAR 2 (LEVEL 5)

MODULES

• Criminal Law (core)
• Tort (core)
• Equity and Trusts (core)
• Legal Ethics and Professional Standards (core)
• Mental Health, Law and Social Policy (option)
• Business Law (option)
• Managing Corporate Risks and Crime (option)
• Work-Based Learning (option)

YEAR 3 (LEVEL 6)

MODULES

• Property and Land Law (core)
• Law Dissertation (core)
• Control, Justice and Punishment (option)
• Constructing Guilt and Innocence (option)
• Employment law (option)
• Childhood Law, Policy and Practice (option)

The academic requirements for the course are 80-112 UCAS tariff points at GCE A-level or equivalent.

No DBS is required by the University but applicants must declare “relevant” criminal convictions that are not “spent” on the UCAS or direct application form. Relevant criminal convictions are those for offences against the person, whether of a violent or sexual nature or for offences involving unlawfully supplying controlled drugs or substances where the conviction concerns commercial drug dealing or trafficking, offences involving firearms, arson or those listed in the Sex Offences Act 2003 or the Terrorism Act 2006. Applicants can find useful information on what counts as a “spent” conviction on the following GOV.UK website.

Applicants who declare a relevant unspent criminal conviction will be contacted by letter by the Admissions Manager with a request to provide additional details. This is so that a risk assessment can be undertaken and the matter considered under the Procedure for Consideration of Disclosed Criminal Conviction(s) on Programmes that Do Not Require a DBS Check. The full policy may be viewed here.

Students should be aware that those wishing to go on to practice law in England and Wales have to show evidence of good character under the SRA Assessment of Character and Suitability Rules full details of which may be found here.