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PG Dip Understanding Legal Practice

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    PGDip 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time

Course Description

The Postgraduate Diploma Understanding Legal Practice provides a course of study that will provide you with the knowledge and understanding of the legal principles and professional practice, as they relate to the work of a Solicitor and CILEX Lawyer.

The course aims to:

  • Provide you with the knowledge, skills and related professional practice required to undertake the Solicitors’ Qualifying Exam (SQE) Part 1 and/or the CILEX professional stage (CPQ).
  • Develop your ability to apply legal knowledge and skills, to both the theory and practice of law utilising complex authentic scenarios.
  • Develop your understanding of the professional ethics requirements of a legal practitioner, based upon the Code of Conduct of the SRA and CILEX.

The course will be of interest to anyone seeking a career in professional legal practice who is a law graduate or has completed Coventry University’s PgCert in Principles of Law or a similar course.

Entry Requirements

Applicants will normally be required to hold a UK law degree (minimum 2:2), the Graduate Diploma in Law (or equivalent law conversion course) or have completed the PgCert Principles of Law at Coventry University.

Alternative qualifications or work experience will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

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Programme Funding

Funding opportunities including scholarships available

Student Destinations

This course is designed to help facilitate a graduate moving into a career as either a solicitor or CILEX Lawyer and as such, prepares you, in part, for the professional level assessments in these two legal career destinations.

On successful completion of the course, it is anticipated that you will undertake the assessments for your chosen career destination and transition into your chosen field of professional legal practice, subject to meeting the requirements of the relevant regulatory bodies.

In addition to working as a Solicitor or CILEX Lawyer, a wide variety of other career destinations are available to graduates due to the highly transferable nature of the skills developed on the course.

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