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MODULES
Employment Law:
Generally a very easy and relatable subject. Many of us have some
MODULES: form of work experience, and even if we don’t, we have definitely
heard stories from others. The employment law chapters are quite
short, the
Core modules: topic is very practical and structured. For this subject, you need to be
someone who is able to spell out obvious details, put themselves in the
As your main modules on the LPC, you will be studying these during shoes of others and ensure that meticulously follow structure and don’t
stage 1 of your course. get lost in the small details. May be able to score really well with this
easy module.
Core modules:
1. Business Law and Practice Family Law:
2. Property Law and Practice Lot of outdated procedures and heart-breaking stories from clients.
3. Civil Litigation Choose this subject if you want to help people who are vulnerable
4. Criminal Litigation and/or in a difficult situation, you will be able to make a massive
difference. You must be able to strategise well in this module, you must
Elective modules: be able to pick the best option for your client in their situation.
Creativity is key, you must be able to understand the different
During stage 2 of the LPC, after you have finished your core modules, interpretations of the law and apply the facts well.
you will be starting your 3 electives.
Immigration Law:
You will need to pick your electives early on during stage 1, so look out Often very structured, you must be able to follow the structure and
for an announcement for this from your university. Make sure that you apply it to your client’s case. The chapter is generally shorter than for
don’t miss the deadline. other subjects and with EU law currently being removed, you only need
to prepare for 9 SGSs.
If you are doing the course part time: you can choose to do two
electives in one term instead of one to finish your course earlier. This Intellectual Property and Commercial Law:
shouldn’t be too difficult to do as the electives usually take half the Very interesting module with half Intellectual Property and half
input as a core module with merely 10 SGSs each. Commercial law. While never boring, it is also intensive and it is only
recommended for those who have studied Intellectual property law
You will need to pick 3 electives from the below options: previously as a lot of the basic law – that is necessary for you to be able
1. Advanced Commercial Litigation to solve problems – will not be discussed. This module will encompass
2. Advanced Commercial Property all intellectual property rights which you have learned during your LLB
3. Advanced Criminal Litigation and will fit these into 5 SGSs with virtually no time to understand the
4. Corporate Finance basics. For exam, don’t focus on the detail, but try to add commercial
5. Debt Finance knowledge to your application.
6. Employment Law
7. Equity Finance Additional modules:
8. Family Law
9. Immigration Law If you are doing the LLM, you will also need to pick one of the practice
10. Insurance Law ready modules:
11. Intellectual Property and Commercial Law 1. Negotiation and Case Analysis
12. International Trades and Transactions 2. Business Management and Strategy
13. Media and Entertainment Law 3. Clinical Legal Education
14. Medical Negligence and Personal Injury
15. Private Acquisitions You will also need to complete:
16. Private Client (Wills, Probate and Estate Planning) - Wills and Administration of Estate (Online exam)
- Professional Conduct and Regulation
Which electives to pick? - Solicitors Accounts
*Disclaimer: this is simply my view of each elective based on my own - Law Review and Reform module which will be assessed as an
experience.* essay you will need to hand in.
There are three strategies in picking an elective: Skills:
1. You can pick electives your training contract providers want (if There are 5 skills modules on the course the you will need to complete.
you already have a training contract you will know which ones The skills modules – as the name suggests – focus more on building
are these and if not, then you need to research which electives skills rather than making you learn black letter law by heart.
your target firms prefer to make you application stronger)
2. You can pick electives that are easier so you can score better The 5 skills you will be examined on during the course:
overall – some electives are easier to learn than others so you Research
can score in the high 70s-80s without much effort. The few Writing
extra percentage markings you can get with these modules will Advocacy
round your final result up so pick these subjects if you have not Interviewing
done so well in your core modules Drafting
3. You can also simply pick subjects you think you would enjoy –
a lot of people (me included), get better results if they enjoy You will need to take these exams alongside your modules.
doing what they love. You will have a lot fewer lectures and SGSs for your skills modules, with
an average of 2 or 3 SGSs per skill.
There may be subjects you are more drawn to due to:
What you can achieve with the subject – eg. help other EXAM PREPARATION:
by studying family law, immigration and medical
The way the subject works – eg. is it a more practical Do pay attention how each of your exam will be marked.
subject? Does it rely a lot on interpretation as in family
law or is it more structured such as advanced Most of the skills are only marked as competent or not yet competent
commercial litigation? which means that you don’t need to stress about the actual marks you
The topic discussed – eg. if you enjoy watching finance will be getting, your only concern is making sure that you pass the
videos, why not pick debt finance or corporate finance? exam.
Advanced Commercial Litigation: I have made the mistake of overpreparing for a skills exam or spending
A very easy topic for scoring well. Definitely pick this module if you are too much time on something that didn’t end up scoring me all that
good at following structures and you enjoyed learning about the Rome many points.
Convention. If you follow the structures that they give you in the SGSs,
it is very easy to score in the high 70s-80s without much effort. Taxes for example, are assessed within the BLP module and are
assessed as competent or not yet competent. The taxes chapter on
Corporate Finance/Debt Finance: the VLE is unnecessarily long and although it explains a lot while
Pick one of these if you aim to get into Corporate/Commercial/Banking preparing for your SGSs, there is no point in re-reading the chapter or
law as these subjects are often the prerequisite for these areas. While assuming that that anything in the chapter might come up on the
these areas are often seen as generally difficult, they will be easier to exam.
grasp if you have a solid basis of BLP and Company law.
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MODULES
Employment Law:
Generally a very easy and relatable subject. Many of us have some
MODULES: form of work experience, and even if we don’t, we have definitely
heard stories from others. The employment law chapters are quite
short, the
Core modules: topic is very practical and structured. For this subject, you need to be
someone who is able to spell out obvious details, put themselves in the
As your main modules on the LPC, you will be studying these during shoes of others and ensure that meticulously follow structure and don’t
stage 1 of your course. get lost in the small details. May be able to score really well with this
easy module.
Core modules:
1. Business Law and Practice Family Law:
2. Property Law and Practice Lot of outdated procedures and heart-breaking stories from clients.
3. Civil Litigation Choose this subject if you want to help people who are vulnerable
4. Criminal Litigation and/or in a difficult situation, you will be able to make a massive
difference. You must be able to strategise well in this module, you must
Elective modules: be able to pick the best option for your client in their situation.
Creativity is key, you must be able to understand the different
During stage 2 of the LPC, after you have finished your core modules, interpretations of the law and apply the facts well.
you will be starting your 3 electives.
Immigration Law:
You will need to pick your electives early on during stage 1, so look out Often very structured, you must be able to follow the structure and
for an announcement for this from your university. Make sure that you apply it to your client’s case. The chapter is generally shorter than for
don’t miss the deadline. other subjects and with EU law currently being removed, you only need
to prepare for 9 SGSs.
If you are doing the course part time: you can choose to do two
electives in one term instead of one to finish your course earlier. This Intellectual Property and Commercial Law:
shouldn’t be too difficult to do as the electives usually take half the Very interesting module with half Intellectual Property and half
input as a core module with merely 10 SGSs each. Commercial law. While never boring, it is also intensive and it is only
recommended for those who have studied Intellectual property law
You will need to pick 3 electives from the below options: previously as a lot of the basic law – that is necessary for you to be able
1. Advanced Commercial Litigation to solve problems – will not be discussed. This module will encompass
2. Advanced Commercial Property all intellectual property rights which you have learned during your LLB
3. Advanced Criminal Litigation and will fit these into 5 SGSs with virtually no time to understand the
4. Corporate Finance basics. For exam, don’t focus on the detail, but try to add commercial
5. Debt Finance knowledge to your application.
6. Employment Law
7. Equity Finance Additional modules:
8. Family Law
9. Immigration Law If you are doing the LLM, you will also need to pick one of the practice
10. Insurance Law ready modules:
11. Intellectual Property and Commercial Law 1. Negotiation and Case Analysis
12. International Trades and Transactions 2. Business Management and Strategy
13. Media and Entertainment Law 3. Clinical Legal Education
14. Medical Negligence and Personal Injury
15. Private Acquisitions You will also need to complete:
16. Private Client (Wills, Probate and Estate Planning) - Wills and Administration of Estate (Online exam)
- Professional Conduct and Regulation
Which electives to pick? - Solicitors Accounts
*Disclaimer: this is simply my view of each elective based on my own - Law Review and Reform module which will be assessed as an
experience.* essay you will need to hand in.
There are three strategies in picking an elective: Skills:
1. You can pick electives your training contract providers want (if There are 5 skills modules on the course the you will need to complete.
you already have a training contract you will know which ones The skills modules – as the name suggests – focus more on building
are these and if not, then you need to research which electives skills rather than making you learn black letter law by heart.
your target firms prefer to make you application stronger)
2. You can pick electives that are easier so you can score better The 5 skills you will be examined on during the course:
overall – some electives are easier to learn than others so you Research
can score in the high 70s-80s without much effort. The few Writing
extra percentage markings you can get with these modules will Advocacy
round your final result up so pick these subjects if you have not Interviewing
done so well in your core modules Drafting
3. You can also simply pick subjects you think you would enjoy –
a lot of people (me included), get better results if they enjoy You will need to take these exams alongside your modules.
doing what they love. You will have a lot fewer lectures and SGSs for your skills modules, with
an average of 2 or 3 SGSs per skill.
There may be subjects you are more drawn to due to:
What you can achieve with the subject – eg. help other EXAM PREPARATION:
by studying family law, immigration and medical
The way the subject works – eg. is it a more practical Do pay attention how each of your exam will be marked.
subject? Does it rely a lot on interpretation as in family
law or is it more structured such as advanced Most of the skills are only marked as competent or not yet competent
commercial litigation? which means that you don’t need to stress about the actual marks you
The topic discussed – eg. if you enjoy watching finance will be getting, your only concern is making sure that you pass the
videos, why not pick debt finance or corporate finance? exam.
Advanced Commercial Litigation: I have made the mistake of overpreparing for a skills exam or spending
A very easy topic for scoring well. Definitely pick this module if you are too much time on something that didn’t end up scoring me all that
good at following structures and you enjoyed learning about the Rome many points.
Convention. If you follow the structures that they give you in the SGSs,
it is very easy to score in the high 70s-80s without much effort. Taxes for example, are assessed within the BLP module and are
assessed as competent or not yet competent. The taxes chapter on
Corporate Finance/Debt Finance: the VLE is unnecessarily long and although it explains a lot while
Pick one of these if you aim to get into Corporate/Commercial/Banking preparing for your SGSs, there is no point in re-reading the chapter or
law as these subjects are often the prerequisite for these areas. While assuming that that anything in the chapter might come up on the
these areas are often seen as generally difficult, they will be easier to exam.
grasp if you have a solid basis of BLP and Company law.
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