Solicitors Practice Course (LLM)

 

Please note that applications for this course open on 1 October and close on 31 July in each application cycle, however, Cardiff operates its own deadline of 31 March. If you submit a completed application after 31 March, Cardiff will only consider it if there are places are still available.  More information about the selection process can be found on the Cardiff University website here.

 

Course information

The Solicitors Practice Course at Cardiff University is an academic LLM programme with the dual purpose of helping you in the process of qualifying as a solicitor in England and Wales.

Your studies on the Solicitors Practice Course at Cardiff will allow you to explore a range of legal subjects. You will have the opportunity to develop your critical thinking skills and your ability to evaluate so that you are able to apply the knowledge you acquire to client facing problems. This will also provide you with an in-depth preparation for the external SQE1 assessment and for your QWE with a law firm or other employer.

You will have the opportunity to acquire and hone valuable legal skills through a process of reflection and refinement that will support your progress towards a professional career in the legal sector. This will also provide a base level for your future sit of the external SQE2 assessment (something you are likely to do towards the end of a 2-year QWE). 

Through the LLM research project or reflective portfolio you will learn further important transferable skills that will help you in your future professional life: how to write and critically reason, how to write for and engage the reader, and how to reflect critically on your experience. 

Overall, your study on the course will allow you to develop intellectual expertise and practical skills across a breadth of legal topics providing you with a strong foundation for your future career as a solicitor. You will acquire the skills, knowledge and attitudes to prepare you for your qualifying work experience, equip you to deal with the demands that are likely to be made of you in practice, and lay the foundation for your future practice as a solicitor by encouraging habits of competence, confidence and professionalism. Your studies will also help prepare you for your SQE1 assessments and give an introduction and foundation for SQE2.

Find out more about this course here

Course length

12 months, full-time

Eligibility requirements

A 2:2 honours UK Law degree. Or a 2:2 honours UK degree in any subject, or an equivalent international degree, and a qualification in a relevant graduate or postgraduate law conversion course (such as the GDL).

Your law degree or conversion course must have covered the law in England and Wales and the law foundation subjects (contract, tort, land law, trusts, criminal law, public law, EU law, and the legal system of England and Wales).

If your degree or conversion course certificate or result is pending, please upload any interim transcripts or provisional certificates.

An overall IELTS overall score of 6.5 with 6.5 in writing and 6.0 in all other subskills, or evidence of an accepted equivalent, such as an undergraduate degree studied in the UK.

For more information about Cardiff University's postgraduate admissions criteria, please visit their website here.

Graduate Visa eligibility

Yes

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Qualification level

Level 7 

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How to apply

Log in to LawCAB

Create a SQE application form from your dashboard.

Select Cardiff University from the list of institutions in the course choice section of your form and then select the course, location and start date you want to apply for.

Please note that applications for this course open on 1 October and close on 31 July in each application cycle, however, Cardiff operates its own deadline of 31 March. If you submit a completed application after 31 March, Cardiff will only consider it if there are places are still available. For further information about the selection process, please go to the Cardiff University website.

Full details of the application process are available here.