Legal Practice LLM

This 1-year full-time or 2-years part-time programme is designed to provide you with a rigorous and challenging postgraduate degree in law that develops an enhanced understanding, and critical awareness of current problems and new insights into the relationship between Law, State and Individual, and the contexts in which the law operates, alongside allowing you to understand and apply the functioning legal knowledge, and the legal skills required by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to undertake the mandatory Solicitors Qualification Examination (SQE1 & 2).<br/><br/>To deliver this comprehensive programme, the University of Winchester has entered into a collaboration with The College of Legal Practice, an experienced, fully accredited Higher Education provider of online professional legal training programmes. You will be taught by a range of experienced Winchester academics sharing their expertise and research interests, alongside experienced legal practitioners from The College of Legal Practice.<br/>Your learning will take place via a blended approach of campus-based, weekly three-hour workshops, personal tutor, and supervisor meetings, and online through a combination of asynchronous guided self-study learning, online supervisor and town hall meetings and study resources, including text, multimedia, interactive text and video.<br/>You will study a range of modules based on relevant theoretical topics and practice areas. Mandatory level 7 modules include: Solicitors Legal Knowledge (SQE1 prep), Solicitors Legal Skills (SQE2 prep), Law and the State, Law and the Individual and conclude with either the Legal Research Project or the Work Placement in Law.<br/><br/>You will be a UK law graduate or will have completed a non-law undergraduate degree and in addition, have clear knowledge of the foundations of legal knowledge gained through completing a Common Professional Exam or Graduate Diploma in Law.<br/><br/>The College of Legal Practice is a fully accredited postgraduate law school based in the UK. The team are experts in the SQE having prepared thousands of students for the SQE assessments since its introduction in 2021. They specialise in offering expert supervision and multiple mock assessments that closely reflect the SQE exams.