LEGAL PRACTICE COURSE

Legal Practice Courses are designed by individual Universities, by The College of Law and by BPP Law School. While all the courses have to meet the written standards stipulated by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority, they are all unique, and this means that there may be some variations in how the subjects are taught and assessed. For the 2010-11 academic year, Institutions will be offering either the current Legal Practice Course or the New Legal Practice Course. The current Course will be discontinued after the 2010-11 academic year and replaced by the New Course.

The Legal Practice Course Central Applications Board (LPC CAB) provides a central applications system to all Institutions providing a full-time attendance Legal Practice Course. The CAB has, however, no role in the admission processes of individual Institutions.

COMMON PROFESSIONAL EXAMINATION (CPE)/DIPLOMA IN LAW (GDL)


The Common Professional Examination/Diploma in Law (CPE/GDL) course is the route by which graduates in disciplines other than law at Universities in the United Kingdom, overseas graduates and mature persons holding qualifications deemed in study content and quality to be equivalent to an undergraduate degree, are able to complete the academic stage of training for the solicitors' and barristers' profession

The minimum duration of a full-time CPE/GDL course is 36 weeks including examination weeks. The course must involve not less than 1620 student study hours.

The CPE/Diploma in Law Courses Central Applications Board (CPE CAB) provides a central applications system to all Institutions providing a full-time attendance CPE/GDL Course. The CPE CAB has, however, no role in the admission processes of individual Institutions.