Law and Legal Practice

Our Law and Legal Practice LLB degree aims to help develop your knowledge and understanding of the English Legal System, key areas within these systems, specifically the Foundations of Legal Knowledge, while providing you with a general foundation for legal practice.

You will gain a systematic understanding of key aspects of law and legal practice, including coherent and detailed knowledge, some at, or informed by, the forefront of the discipline. This includes:

Public and private laws within an institutional, social, national and global context; Context of substantive areas of law and justice; The SRA Principles of Regulation and Code of Conduct and its ethical requirements; Doctrinal and policy issues; Equity and trusts; Property law; Conveyancing; Business law; Probate Practice. You will learn to source, evaluate and comment upon research, or equivalent scholarship, in law and legal practice, with an appreciation of the uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge, and show conceptual and critical thinking, analysis, synthesis and evaluation of assumptions, abstract concepts and data.