Law Conversion Course: incorporating the CPE - PgDip / LLM

London South Bank University

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1 year

Course duration

9/1/2020

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The Law Conversion Course is an accredited conversion course for non-law graduates aiming for a professional career in law. It satisfies all the Common Professional Exam (CPE) requirements of the professional bodies including the Bar Standards Board and Solicitors Regulation Authority. There are two alternative routes both of which can lead to the additional award of LLM in Legal Studies. This course can lead to one of many careers in law from a professional qualification as solicitor or barrister to a wide variety of careers in both public and private sectors. While our graduates may go on to join professional courses leading to qualification as a solicitor or barrister, the Diploma is also useful for numerous jobs that value skills in analysis, clear communication, efficient organisation and reasoned persuasion. LSBU is committed to supporting you develop your employability and succeed in getting a job after you have graduated. Your qualification will certainly help, but in a competitive market you also need to work on your employability, and on your career search. Our Employability Service will support you in developing your skills, finding a job, interview techniques, work experience or an internship, and will help you assess what you need to do to get the job you want at the end of your course. LSBU offers a comprehensive Employability Service, with a range of initiatives to complement your studies, including: direct engagement from employers who come in to interview and talk to students; Job Shop and on-campus recruitment agencies to help your job search; mentoring and work shadowing schemes.

For international students

Students need any undergraduate degree from a UK or Irish university or its equivalent in any discipline with a minimum of a 2.2 classification or its equivalent and those students are considered to be suitable to undertake the course. Exceptionally, favourable consideration will be given to those with a third class honours undergraduate degree or its equivalent, after having taken into account the applicant's work experience, other relevant experience and circumstances together with the applicant's commitment to the course. Students with a third class honours degree or its equivalent are not normally eligible to undertake the Bar Professional Training Course. If they do not have an undergraduate degree from a UK or Irish university and Students wish to become a barrister, they must have a Certificate of Academic Standing (CoAS) issued by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) proving their eligibility to join the LLM/PGDLS+CPE. Without this CoAS, progress to the next stage bar course (BPTC) will be blocked – even though they were admitted to a CPE course and passed the CPE. If they wish to become a solicitor, student’s eligibility to join our LLM/PGDLS+CPE course is decided solely by this University considering their academic qualifications and work experience. If they already have a CoAS from the SRA (who no longer issue them), we will consider it if still within its expiry date. Students are not required by this University to have a CoAS from the BSB to join the LLM/PGDLS+CPE. If students are not a national of the UK or Ireland or of a majority English-speaking country, they may have to demonstrate proficiency in English. This can be evidenced by an IELTS score of 6.5 or Cambridge Proficiency or Advanced Grade C.

For Iranian students

Students should have Taught Masters Degree / Karshenasi Ershad for entry onto Postgraduate course at LSBU.

1 year - Full time

Fee

Fee for 2019/20 entry is £13780 per year. There will be a slight increase in 2020/21 entry. PgDip fee is £9186.67 per year. There will be a slight increase in 2020/21 entry.Please check with institution

Start Date

9/1/2020

Address

Southwark Campus, 103 Borough Road, Kensington and Chelsea, London, SE1 0AA, England

About

The London South Bank University was established in 1892 and comprises of nearly 23,500 students. It is located in Southwark, London. The main campus of the university is located in Southwark. Two smaller campuses are present at Whipps Cross Hospital and Havering, both of which are situated in East London. The University operates out of the departments of Health and Social Care, Business and Computing, Arts and Humanities, and Engineering and the Built Environment.

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