Law (2-year accelerated programme) LLB (Hons) drafted

Program Overview

This undergraduate law program provides a comprehensive foundation in legal principles and skills, covering core areas such as contract law, criminal law, public law, and tort law. Students develop essential legal research, writing, and practical lawyering abilities through simulations and case studies. Optional modules allow for specialization in areas such as commercial law, environmental law, and international law. The program prepares graduates for careers in law, legal practice, or further legal studies.

Program Outline

Outline

Year 1

Compulsory Modules (120 Credits)

• Contract Law (20 Credits): Introduces the basic principles governing contractual agreements between individuals and entities, including offer and acceptance, consideration, capacity to contract, remedies for breach, and specific types of contracts.
• Criminal Law (20 Credits): Examines the fundamental principles of criminal law, such as mens rea (guilty mind) and actus reus (guilty act), different types of offences, defences available to accused individuals, punishment and sentencing principles, and the role of criminal law in society.
• Law, Justice and Procedure (20 Credits): Provides an overview of the legal systems in the United Kingdom, including their historical development, sources of law (legislation, case law, EU law), the structure of the courts and their jurisdictions, civil and criminal procedures, and access to justice issues.
• Legal Skills (20 Credits): Develops essential legal research and writing skills through practical exercises, including identifying legal issues, conducting case law and statutory analysis, drafting legal memoranda and letters of advice, and presenting legal arguments orally.
• Public Law (20 Credits): Explores the nature and sources of public law in the UK, the relationship between the different branches of government (legislative, executive, and judiciary), principles of administrative law including judicial review, fundamental human rights protected under UK and European law, and constitutional issues.
• Tort Law (20 Credits): Examines civil wrongs that result in harm to individuals, including the elements that need to be proven for negligence, strict liability, and breach of statutory duty claims, defences available to defendants, types of damages awarded by courts, and the role that tort law plays in compensating injured parties and deterring harmful conduct.

Year 2

Compulsory Modules (75 credits)

• Equity and Trust (20 Credits): Studies the principles governing equitable remedies and trusts, including trusts for charitable purposes, express and constructive trusts, resulting and implied trusts, duties of trustees, equitable remedies available for breach of trust, and equitable maxims that guide the equitable jurisdiction.
• Land Law (20 Credits): Examines the legal framework governing ownership, possession, and use of land in England and Wales, including land registration, estates in land (freehold and leasehold), co-ownership of land, easements and profits, mortgages, land law legislation, and current issues and reforms in land law.
• The UK, EU & Brexit (15 Credits): Analyzes the historical development and current legal framework of the EU, the UK's relationship with the EU prior to and following Brexit, the impact of Brexit on UK law and policy, and the legal challenges and opportunities arising from the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
• Practical and Professional Skills (20 Credits): Develops practical lawyering skills and professionalism through simulations, case studies, and client interviewing exercises, covering areas such as client care and communication, legal interviewing and fact-gathering, analysis of legal problems, legal research and writing.

Optional Modules (up to 85 credits)

• Commercial Law (optional, 15 credits): Provides an understanding of the legal principles that govern businesses and commercial transactions, including the sale of goods, consumer protection laws, company law, agency, intellectual property, and international trade law.
• Criminal Evidence (optional, 15 credits): Examines the rules of evidence that apply in criminal proceedings in England and Wales, including burden of proof, admissibility and exclusion of evidence, witness testimony, expert evidence, identification evidence, and the law relating to different types of evidence in criminal cases.
• Endangered Wildlife and International Law (optional, 15 credits): Combines study of international legal instruments for wildlife conservation with analysis of specific case studies on endangered species issues in various parts of the world.
• Environmental Law (optional, 15 credits): Examines national, European, and international legal frameworks for environmental protection, principles of sustainable development, regulation of pollution and waste management, climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, and legal challenges to environmental conservation.
• Family and Welfare Law (optional, 15 credits): Explores legal principles and policies related to family relationships in the UK, incluyendo marriage and civil partnership, cohabitation, divorce proceedings, child custody arrangements, domestic violence protection, and adoption law.
• Intellectual Property Law (optional, 15 credits): Provides an understanding of the different types of intellectual property rights (patents, trademarks, copyright, designs), legal protection mechanisms available in UK and international law, infringement issues and remedies, the commercial exploitation of IP assets, and emerging challenges in the digital age.
• International Law and Contemporary Issues (optional, 15 credits): Analyzes current global issues from an international legal perspective, focusing on topics of peace and security (war crimes, human rights abuses), international courts and tribunals, global health pandemics, climate change mitigation strategies, and legal aspects of terrorism and counter-terrorism measures.
• International Law of the Sea (optional, 15 credits): Provides a comprehensive study of the legal rules governing the oceans and seas, maritime jurisdiction zones (territorial sea, exclusive economic zone, continental shelf), exploitation of marine resources, protection of the marine environment from pollution and overexploitation of fish stocks, regulation of international navigation, and legal settlement of maritime boundary disputes.