Legal Practice Course - PG Dip

at London Metropolitan University

Modular structure

The modules listed below are for the academic year 2022/23 and represent the course modules at this time. Modules and module details (including, but not limited to, location and time) are subject to change over time.

Year 1 modules include:
 

• Advocacy Skills (core, 0 credits)
• Business Law and Practice (core, 24 credits)
• Drafting Skills (core, 2.25 credits)
• Interviewing Skills (core, 5.5 credits)
• Legal Writing Skills (core, 2.25 credits)
• Litigation (core, 39.5 credits)
• Professional Conduct and Regulation (core, 1.5 credits)
• Property Law and Practice (core, 24 credits)
• Research Skills (core, 2.75 credits)
• Solicitors Accounts (core, 6 credits)
• Wills and Administration of Estates (core, 2 credits)
• Advanced Business Law and Practice (option, 13.5 credits)
• Child Law and Practice (option, 13.5 credits)
• Civil and Commercial Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (option, 13.5 credits)
• Commercial Law and Practice (option, 13.5 credits)
• Corporate Law and Practice (option, 13.5 credits)
• Employment Law and Practice (option, 13.5 credits)
• Family Law and Practice (option, 13.5 credits)
• Housing Law and Practice (option, 13.5 credits)
• Immigration Law and Practice (option, 13.5 credits)
• Intellectual Property Law and Practice (option, 13.5 credits)
• Private Client Law and Practice (option, 13.5 credits)

You will be required to have:

• a qualifying law degree awarded by a SRA approved provider with at least second class honours that must include having adequately passed assessments in the seven Foundations of Legal Knowledge: Public Law, Obligations I (Contract), Obligations II (Tort), Criminal Law, Land Law, Equity and Trusts and Law of the European Union, or;
• if you’re a non-law graduate, a Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) or Common Professional Examination (CPE) having obtained overall average marks 50% or above

Applicants are required to provide a copy of the award certificate and transcript of results for their entry qualification. Additionally, applicants with a Law degree are also required to provide a letter from the awarding University to confirm that they hold a qualifying law degree.

UK/Home Fees

Cost
£11,500 per year

Overseas Fees

Cost
£11,500 per year

Please note, in addition to the tuition fee there may be additional costs for things like equipment, materials, printing, textbooks, trips or professional body fees.

Additionally, there may be other activities that are not formally part of your course and not required to complete your course, but which you may find helpful (for example, optional field trips). The costs of these are additional to your tuition fee and the fees set out above and will be notified when the activity is being arranged.

London Met is focused on helping its LPC students obtain a training contract and legal work experience. You will be designated a professional mentor to provide individual advice and guidance.

Our excellent careers team are able to help you with advice regarding training contract applications and preparation of your CV, as well as by providing mock interview practice which will help you find valuable work placements and pro bono opportunities to enhance your CV and establish contacts with the solicitors' profession.