Solicitors’ Practice Programme (SPP) LLM/PGDip

This Module will cover the areas of Functioning Legal Knowledge specified by the SRA for the centralised FLK 1 assessment. These are: Business Law and Practice (including relevant principles of taxation). This includes: Starting a new business as a company/partnership/LLP/sole trader; managing a business to comply with legal requirements, interests and obligations of shareholders, financing a business, taxation of a business, termination of a business including insolvency. Dispute Resolution This includes: Analysis of the merits of a claim/defence, arbitration, mediation and litigation as options; pre-action considerations; commencing and dealing with a claim; case management and interim applications, evidence and disclosure, preparation for trial, post trial steps, dealing with costs. Contract This includes: Formation of a contract; contents of a contract; causation and remoteness; vitiating elements; discharge of a contract, remedies, unjust enrichment. Tort This includes: Negligence; occupiers liability, product liability, nuisance, the rule in Rylands v Fletcher, remedies, defences. Legal System of England and Wales Legal System of England and Wales. Legal Services This includes: The role of the SRA, money laundering, financial services, funding.

This Module will cover the areas of Functioning Legal Knowledge specified by the SRA for the centralised FLK 2 assessment. These are: Property Practice (including relevant principles of taxation) The key elements of a freehold/leasehold residential/commercial property transaction, investigating registered and unregistered titles, pre-contract searches and enquiries, progressing a transaction to exchange of contracts, pre-completion, completion and post-completion steps, the grant and assignment of a commercial lease, key lease covenants and breach, security of tenure, taxation of property transactions. Wills and the Administration of Estates (including relevant principles of taxation) This includes: The validity and interpretation of a will, the distribution of an estate, the law and practice of a grant of representation, the law and practice of Inheritance Tax in relation to lifetime gifts and transfers on death the planning and management of the administration of an estate, the law and practice relating to personal representatives, trustees and beneficiaries. Land Law This includes: Registered and unregistered land, freehold and leasehold, legal and equitable interests in land, co-ownership, landlord and tenant. Trusts This includes: Express and implied trusts, fiduciary relationships, trustee duties/powers/liability, equitable remedies. Solicitors Accounts This includes: Transactions involving client money, operation of ledgers and bank accounts, payment of interest, accounting entries, bills and accountants? reports, record keeping obligations, breaches of the SRA Accounts Rules. Criminal Law and Practice This includes: Core principles of criminal liability, specific and general defences, advising a client at a police station, pre-trial procedure and process, procedure and process at magistrates? court and Crown Court trials, sentences and appeals.

This module will provide you with in-depth knowledge of the key legal, practical and procedural issues relevant to a practitioner of Commercial property including looking at the acquisition of land for development and the subsequent sale of units within the development, funding for the development, planning and environmental issues. The module will also build on students' knowledge of commercial leases from earlier in the course, looking in more detail at key terms in leases and the grant and subsequent sale of leases.

The Advanced Litigation module will provide you with in depth knowledge and understanding of commercial dispute resolution in the context of more complex multi-track cases. It will also enable you to develop your civil litigation drafting and advocacy skills gained previously on the course. The module will include international aspects of litigation, advanced disclosure, search orders and the Commercial Court.

This Module will cover the areas of legal skills specified by the SRA for the centralised skills assessments in Case and Matter Analysis. These are: analysis of a practical case study and documents in relation to facts and legal issues. production of a written report for a partner in the solicitor?s firm in relation to the case study. including a legal analysis of the position in the written report. the provision of client focussed advice which might include advice on options and/or strategies for negotiation. applying the law correctly and comprehensively to the client?s situation, including a focus on what the client wishes to achieve. identifying any ethical or professional conduct issues and exercise judgment to resolve them appropriately.

The aims of this Module are: to provide you with knowledge and skills relevant to a specialist area of practice in working as a solicitor in England and Wales; to provide you with practice-based knowledge and understanding of substantive commercial and intellectual property law.

The aims of this Module are: to provide you with knowledge and skills relevant to a specialist area of practice in working as a solicitor in England and Wales. to provide you with practice-based knowledge and understanding of the substantive law relating to individual employment rights. to provide you with practice-based knowledge and understanding of the substantive law relating to individual employment rights. to equip you with practical skills and procedural knowledge relevant to employment law and practice.

The Family Law module will provide you with a practice-based knowledge and understanding of the legal, practical and procedural issues relevant to family law. This module aims to provide you with the knowledge and understanding to advise the married or unmarried family client on the effects of relationship breakdown, equipping you for work as a trainee solicitor in the matrimonial department of a solicitors? firm.

The aims of this Module are: to help to provide you with a sound foundation for qualifying and working as a solicitor in England and Wales. to support you in developing the requisite practical legal skills as set out in the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Solicitors Qualification Examination (SQE) 2 assessment specification. to support you in understanding how practical legal skills operate within the context of functioning legal knowledge. to support you in developing the ability to pass the SQE assessments in Client Interviewing and in Advocacy. to place your legal skills and legal knowledge within a realistic, practical, and commercially aware context of how a solicitor in England and Wales works.

This Module seeks to support your developing career by enabling you to look in depth at a topic that is of particular interest to you, and that will be relevant to the legal work that you want to do.

The Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) module will provide you with a practice-based knowledge and understanding of the legal, practical and procedural issues relevant to M&A legal practice. This elective aims to provide you with the skills to research and apply knowledge of the law and legal practice accurately and effectively.

This Module covers a range of areas that are important for and pervasive within the work of a solicitor ? working in a professional way and being aware of commercial considerations. These areas can arise in a wide range of contexts, and they may be relevant to how legal knowledge should be used, or how legal skills should be carried out. These areas are specified by the SRA as being relevant across the centralised SQE 1 and 2 assessments.

The aims of this Module are: to help to provide you with a sound foundation for qualifying and working as a solicitor in England and Wales. to support you in developing the requisite practical legal skills as set out in the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Solicitors Qualification Examination (SQE) 2 assessment specification. to support you in understanding how practical legal skills operate within the context of functioning legal knowledge. to support you in developing the ability to pass the SQE assessments in Legal Writing and Legal Drafting. to place your legal skills and legal knowledge within a realistic, practical, and commercially aware context of how a solicitor in England and Wales works.