PGDip Legal Practice Course

at Anglia Ruskin University - Cambridge

TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT

12 months (full-time)
Whole course

Our Legal Practice Course features 11 core modules which offer a broad foundation for a career in law.
The modules include Litigation, which covers 60% civil litigation and 40% criminal litigation; Practical Legal Research, to refine your research skills and learn how to present your findings effectively; and Writing, to finesse your legal writing to avoid ambiguity. Teaching will include large group sessions, online lectures and two days on-campus teaching per week (for 2021-22 you can opt to join on-campus lectures remotely).

You can also choose to explore three additional subjects, from our list of optional modules.

Modules are subject to change and availability.

Throughout the course, we’ll assess your progress through a combination of timed open book supervised assessments, oral practical and coursework-style. You’ll also undertake full-scale mock assessments in all areas, including all skills subjects.

Core modules

• Litigation
• Property Law and Practice
• Business Law and Practice
• Interviewing and Advising
• Writing
• Practical Legal Research
• Advocacy
• Drafting
• Professional Conduct and Regulation
• Solicitors Accounts
• Wills and Administration of Estates

Optional modules

• Billing, File Management and Commercial Awareness
• Family Law and Practice
• Employment Law and Practice
• Child Care Law
• Private Client
• Commercial Dispute Resolution

Standard entry requirements

Important additional notes

Our published entry requirements are a guide only and our decision will be based on your overall suitability for the course as well as whether you meet the minimum entry requirements. Other equivalent qualifications may be accepted for entry to this course, please email answers@aru.ac.uk for further information.

You'll need a computer and reliable internet access to successfully engage with your course. Before starting a course, we recommend that you check our technical requirements for online learning.

£10,500UK students starting 2021/22 (per year)

Careers

Our Legal Practice Course will prepare you for life as a practising solicitor in England or Wales. When you graduate, you’ll be ready to continue on to the two-year training contract that will fully qualify you for professional practice*.
You’ll most likely choose to complete your two-year training contract with a firm of solicitors in private practice, but might prefer to take one with an alternative employer, such as the UK Government (through the Government Legal Service), local government, the Crown Prosecution Service or a law centre.

Whatever you decide, you can be sure of receiving specialised guidance for your career in law, through our links with practitioners. We’ll also keep you up to date on vacancies in the legal job market.

Graduation doesn’t have to be the end of your time with us. You could choose to continue your academic career with a Masters or research programme at ARU.

*Unless you have a FILEX qualification and exemption from the SRA.