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LLM - Master of Laws
Mount Pleasant Campus
Full Time
Sep 2026
1 Year
About this course The Master's degree in Legal Practice (SQE 1 and 2) is designed to enhance your academic understanding of the law and to develop your practical legal skills, equipping you to undertake both components of the new Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE 1 and 2) in order to move towards qualifying as a solicitor. This is a practice-based programme, building on the functioning legal knowledge required to pass the SQE 1 assessments, enabling you to engage in application and workplace simulation; as well as develop the skills and competence required for ‘day one’ of legal practice. Our primary goal is to guide your progression toward becoming a solicitor, with a strong focus on SQE exam preparation to ensure a smooth transition into your legal career. We offer comprehensive learning materials, resources, and diagnostic testing to support both SQE1 and SQE2 exams. The programme is developed with BARBRI, a trusted legal educator that specialises in innovative technology, having helped more than 1.4 million students and professionals succeed in achieving their legal qualification across the globe. Their approach to preparation for solicitor qualification combines ultimate flexibility and individualised learning through an intelligent online learning platform which schedules the learning content into your own Personal Study Plan (PSP). Upon completion, you will have earned a modern LLM, started building your Qualifying Work Experience (QWE) portfolio, and be well-prepared to enter the legal profession in England and Wales.
This module aims to provide the knowledge, understanding and analysis of legal principles to align with the SRA's Foundations of Legal Knowledge 1. To allow students to study and undertake exercises and practice multiple choice questions which will replicate the external SQE 1 assessments.
Students will also be able to apply practical legal skills to problem questions to replicate working in a solicitors' office in order to put their foundations of legal knowledge into context.
This module will provide the knowledge, understanding and analysis of legal principles to align with the SRA's Foundations of Legal Knowledge 2.
Students will be able to apply practical legal skills to problem questions to replicate working in a solicitors' office to put their foundations of legal knowledge into context.
Students will be taught how to approach the oral skills of interviewing & advising and advocacy and practice them in the context of: Property Law & Practice; Wills & Administration of Estates; Dispute Resolution and Criminal Litigation.
Students will practice the different oral skills in the different areas of law required for SQE 2 assessments.
This is a preparatory module designed to give students the necessary practical skills required to undertake the external SQE 2 assessments.
To provide students with the knowledge and practice in order to demonstrate the written legal skills of case matter & analysis, legal research, writing and drafting as needed by a practising solicitor in the context of Criminal Litigation, Dispute Resolution, Property Law & Practice, Wills & Administration of Estates and Business Law & Practice.
These written skills are required in order to pass the external SQE 2 assessment.
This is a preparatory module designed to give students the necessary practice skills required to undertake and pass the external SQE 2 assessment.
To provide the basis for the elements of professional conduct and clinical legal education and provide a basis for delivering legal services with appropriate supervision and reflecting upon the same.
Students will be allocated to a research project either in within the Legal Advice Centre or with a third sector organisation and will spend much of the time under supervision working with clients.
This module is to enable students to design and complete a large independent legal research project.
Students will be introduced to researching at Master's level and will learn different legal research methodologies, such as doctrinal, socio-legal and comparative.
Students will learn research ethics and develop a research plan in order to construct a dissertation proposal/literature review.
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