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    Part-Time, Full time according to Funding Council definitions

The LLM Legal Practice qualification will enhance your legal research skills and legal knowledge in a particular area of practice law.

Following successful completion of the Legal Practice Course (LPC) Part 1 and Part 2 units, which lead to the qualification of a PG Diploma in Legal Practice, a legal research dissertation may be undertaken in a relevant area of legal practice interest. The dissertation will focus on an area of legal practice studied during the Legal Practice Course, and depending on the availability of appropriate supervisory staff. Successful completion leads to the award of LLM Legal Practice.

See Course details for information including how this course will be delivered safely if you’re starting in January 2021 in response Covid-19.

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Weymouth House - staff & student shared space
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Weymouth House, staff & student shared space
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The Share Lecture Theatre

Key information

Next start date:

January 2021, September 2021, January 2022, September 2022

Location:

Bournemouth University, Lansdowne Campus

Duration:

6 months full-time or 1 year part-time

Required subjects:

Successful completion of BU's LPC is compulsory

Entry requirements:

A Bachelors Honours degree with 2:2 in any subject and successful completion of BU's LPC programme. For more information check out our full entry requirements.

International entry requirements:

If English is not your first language you'll need IELTS (Academic) 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component of writing, speaking, listening and reading. For more information check out our full entry requirements.

Course details

On this course you will be taught by a range of staff with relevant expertise and knowledge appropriate to the content of the unit. This will include senior academic staff, qualified professional practitioners, demonstrators, technicians and research students. You will also benefit from regular guest lectures from industry.

How you will be assessed

You will be assessed by coursework culminating in your final year research project, and you will also undertake group work and written exams. The assessment methods for each unit can be found in the programme specification for your course.

Download the programme specification (pdf 2.3mb)

Entry requirements

Your application

For Legal Practice we are looking for applicants who have completed BU’s LPC Legal Practice Course.

For post-experience and professional qualifications, there may be additional entry requirements set by the association or institute that ultimately administers the qualification in question. The qualification description on the course information pages should tell you what these are but please get in touch if you are in doubt.

Costs and fees

All fees are quoted in pounds sterling and are per annum. Fees quoted are for tuition only unless stated otherwise. Your tuition fees will be the same for each year of your course.

Find out more about living expenses for postgraduate students

Our staff

On this course you will be taught by staff with relevant expertise and knowledge appropriate to the content of the unit. This could include senior academic staff, qualified professional practitioners and research students, many of whom are actively engaged in research and/or professional practice which is integrated into the teaching of this course. Please note that staff can change.

All statistics shown throughout this page are taken from Unistats, Destination of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE), BU institutional data and Ipsos MORI (National Student Survey) unless otherwise stated.