
Overview
This LLM in Legal Practice at London Metropolitan University provides graduates who have completed the academic stage of legal training with the professional stage of training required to qualify as a solicitor. We have a long-standing reputation for training solicitors and were one of the first universities to be validated to run the Legal Practice Course.
The course imitates the nature of the work you would encounter in legal practice and follows clients through various legal transactions and court hearings. It builds on the substantive law that you will have already learnt and includes the study of both law and procedure in the major areas of practice.
You’ll also learn the everyday skills of legal research, interviewing, writing, drafting and advocacy to prepare you for your subsequent professional training and for practice as a solicitor.
In addition, we aim to help you apply academic understanding and research techniques to the analysis of law, policy and practice within your chosen area for the final LLM qualification. You’ll also learn how to produce analytical, creative and original research that demonstrates the relationships between substantive law, policy, socio-economic context and legal practice.
After the courseThe 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.
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Visit official programme websiteProgramme Structure
Courses include:
- Advocacy Skills
- Business Law and Practice
- Drafting Skills
- Legal Practice Dissertation
- Legal Research Methodology
- Legal Writing Skills
- Litigation
- Professional Conduct and Regulation
- Property Law and Practice
- Research Skills
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Duration
- Full-time
- 12 months
- Part-time
- 24 months
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General requirements
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. Further guidance on what amounts to a Qualifying Law Degree is available on the SRA website.
- (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%.
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International
13500 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 13500 GBP for the full programme during 12 months. -
National
13500 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 13500 GBP for the full programme during 12 months.
PT:
- UK: £6,750 per 20 credits
- Int: £6,750 per 20 credits
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Funding
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