Legal Practice - LLM

at London Metropolitan University

Modular structure

The modules listed below are for the academic year 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)
• Legal Practice Dissertation (core, 60 credits)
• Legal Research Methodology (core, 20 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Interviewing Skills (option, 5.5 credits)

You will be required to have:
 

• a qualifying law degree (awarded by a Solicitor Regulation Authority (SRA) approved provider), with at least second class honours. This 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. 
• (if you’re a non-law graduate) a Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) or Common Professional Examination (CPE) with an average of at least 50%.

Prior to joining the course applicants will also need to provide evidence of Completion of the Academic Stage of Training in the form of:
 

• a letter or email from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) (obtained prior to July 2014) or
• a letter from the awarding University to state that your Undergraduate Degree is a Qualifying Law Degree (to be issued on completion of your award) or that you have completed and passed all seven core GDL/CPE subjects within the maximum number of attempts allowed (not more than three)

Other factors will be taken into account, in particular the need to study part time, in London, evidence of ability to pursue successfully the skills components of the course and your motivation to become a solicitor, evidence for example by relevant unpaid or paid work experience.

UK/Home Fees

Cost
£13,500 per year

Overseas Fees

Cost
£13,500 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.

The Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice (LPC) qualifies you to enter into a training contract with a firm of solicitors or an in-house legal department. The LLM in Legal Practice further enhances your employment prospects. The course also provides a good grounding for practice as a paralegal, in local or health authorities, in local or central government, in commerce either in company secretarial/governance/ regulatory areas or if you aspire to being on a board of directors.