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Study Details: one year full-time; twenty-six months part-time
Maximise your chances of securing pupillage by building your legal knowledge and skills side by side. You'll embed your understanding through regular application of your knowledge to scenarios you are likely to experience when advising clients or in court.
By undertaking and successfully completing the UWE Bristol Bar Training Course (BTC), you'll develop, and be able to demonstrate, the competencies required to be called to the Bar, as set out by the Bar Standards Board (BSB).
On the BTC course, you'll build your legal knowledge and skills side by side, to embed your learning and maximise your chances of doing well on the course, and securing pupillage.
As stipulated by the BSB, you'll need:
To hold a law degree/conversion course, which meets the requirements for study of the foundations of legal knowledge subjects
A degree classification (minimum 2:2)
Membership of an Inn of Court
English language ability (see below).
All students applying for a place on the UWE Bristol BTC course will be considered for an offer according to the extent that their application form demonstrates:
The potential to fulfil the BSB Professional Statement Competences
A commitment to a career at the Bar/in law
A record of legal work experience or other law related activity during their studies.
These criteria will be assessed by reference to answers on the applicants online application form.
Deferred entry
We do not accept deferred entry applications for this course.
For fees and funding options, please visit website to find out more
The BTC prepares you for a successful career as a barrister, giving you the necessary skills, knowledge and network to maximise your chances of securing pupillage.
Many of our graduates go on to work as barristers, working either as self employed or inhouse counsel, or for the Government Legal Profession or Crown Prosecution Service.
Other graduates take their BTC into careers as legal associates, managers or legal advisers, or into other sectors.
Alongside support from our award-winning university careers services, you'll receive careers advice and support specific to this course, including access to CV clinics, careers talks, 'ask the experts' events and mock interviews, to enhance your chances of obtaining pupillage and help you plan your career path. We can also help with planning for a career overseas through our international careers service.
You'll study these core modules:
Bar Professional Practice
Civil Advocacy
Civil Litigation
Conferencing
Criminal Advocacy
Criminal Litigation
Drafting, Opinion Writing and Legal Research
Professional Ethics.
Plus, two optional modules from:
Clinical Negligence
Commercial Law
Criminal Law
Employment Law (BPTC)
Family Law
International Trade
Refugee and Asylum.
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