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LA-363
English Legal System for Graduate Diploma in Law
Module provides an introduction to the organisation and structure of the English Legal System
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LA-369A
Coursework 1 & 2 for Graduate Diploma in Law
The module is personal study, by which students submit two pieces of coursework from either LA-362, LA-365 or LA-366 or La-361, LA-367 or LA-368.
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LA-N00
Legal System of England and Wales
This module provides an introduction to the organisation, structure and personnel of the legal system of England & Wales
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LALM02
Dispute Resolution
The aim of this module is to enable students to identify and undertake the steps involved in a breach of contract and a negligence claim, advising clients on all matters from initial instruction through to trial and post-trial matters. Students will explore and advise clients in relation to alternatives to litigation, including the various forms of alternative dispute resolution.
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LALM06
Wills and Administration of Estates
The Wills and Administration of Estates module helps students develop an overview of the law and practice relating to Wills, grants of representation and administration of estates and becomes familiar with the relevant documentation. On completion of the module a student will be able to conduct a matter from taking the initial instructions from a client and drafting a will through to the administration of an estate and the preparation of a set of estate accounts
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LANM02
Dispute Resolution
The aim of this module is to enable students to identify and undertake the steps involved in a breach of contract and a negligence claim, advising clients on all matters from initial instruction through to trial and post-trial matters. Students will explore and advise clients in relation to alternatives to litigation, including the various forms of alternative dispute resolution.
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LANM06
Wills and Administration of Estates
The Wills and Administration of Estates module helps students develop an overview of the law and practice relating to Wills, grants of representation and administration of estates and becomes familiar with the relevant documentation. On completion of the module a student will be able to conduct a matter from taking the initial instructions from a client and drafting a will through to the administration of an estate and the preparation of a set of estate accounts
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LANM07
Law of Obligations
The module covers the key elements of the system of obligations in law and forms.
Law of contract is at the heart of the system of obligations, together with tort and restitution. It provides the essential foundation for further subjects in the areas of commercial, consumer, company and business law as well as international trade. The matters covered within the law of contract include contract formation and contents, vitiating and avoidance factors, terms and performance of contract as well as remedies.
The Law of Tort is a branch of the civil law which provides possible remedies for the protection of a person¿s interests in relation to different forms of loss which may be experienced as a result of different types of incident. The module covers the tort of negligence, which is numerically the most common and easily the most flexible in terms of the interests that it protects. The module will consider in detail all aspects of negligence from the inception of a claim to the eventual award of compensatory damages. Students will also focus on product and occupiers¿ liability, and the tort of nuisance.
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LAPM02
Litigation
Students are trained to act as a Criminal Practitioner from the moment they are instructed by a client in custody to the point at which s/he is tried in the Magistrates¿ Court. Students also consider the advantages and disadvantages of summary trial and trial on indictment.
The overriding objective of the Civil Litigation element of the Litigation module is to provide students with the knowledge, understanding and skills necessary to work effectively in a civil litigation, dispute management or personal injury department.
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LAPM11
Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence
The overriding objective of the Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence module is to build up knowledge and confidence in respect of personal injury and clinical negligence litigation, in order that on completion of the module a student can conduct a personal injury matter and a clinical negligence matter from taking the initial instructions from the client through to settlement / trial. The students will handle an employer`s liability scenario and a clinical negligence scenario and will have the opportunity to undertake all procedural steps required in dealing with such claims. The student will be expected to apply and develop the skills introduced in the civil litigation module to more complex personal injury and clinical negligence matters.
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LAPM17A
Wills and Administration of Estates
The overriding objective of the Wills and Administration of Estates module is to ensure that a student develops an overview of the law and practice relating to Wills, grants of representation and administration of estates and becomes familiar with the relevant documentation. On completion of the module a student will be able to conduct a matter from taking the initial instructions from a client and drafting a will through to the administration of an estate and the preparation of a set of estate accounts.
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LAPM19
Course Skills
Skills are essential and integral to the course. Skills appear throughout the course and will be practised and developed in both the compulsory and elective sections of the LPC.
Students are assessed throughout the course on a number of key skills. However, before they are assessed and have plenty of opportunity to learn and practise the skills required. This is through formal class contact (in the introductory block, or in the individual subjects), in their own practice time, their own reading and through supervised practice, where they informally practise skills with staff who give them feedback
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LAPM19A
Course Skills (A)
Skills are essential and integral to the course. Skills appear throughout the course and will be practised and developed in both the compulsory and elective sections of the LPC.
Students are assessed throughout the course on a number of key skills. However, before they are assessed and have plenty of opportunity to learn and practise the skills required. This is through formal class contact (in the introductory block, or in the individual subjects), in their own practice time, their own reading and through supervised practice, where they informally practise skills with staff who give them feedback
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LAPM19B
Course Skills (B)
Skills are essential and integral to the course. Skills appear throughout the course and will be practised and developed in both the compulsory and elective sections of the LPC.
Students are assessed throughout the course on a number of key skills. However, before they are assessed and have plenty of opportunity to learn and practise the skills required. This is through formal class contact (in the introductory block, or in the individual subjects), in their own practice time, their own reading and through supervised practice, where they informally practise skills with staff who give them feedback
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LAPM33
Solicitors Accounts
The Solicitors¿ Accounts module aims to impress upon students the importance of adhering to the Solicitors Accounts Rules (the Rules) and to give students a thorough understanding of solicitors¿ accounts, such that they are competent to be entrusted with client money.
Students will complete realistic exercises that require them to record all the ledger entries that would occur on a typical file, using a double entry bookkeeping system that accords with the Rules. This will entail repeatedly identifying client, office and controlled trust money and the steps that must be taken when handling this money. Students will record the financial transactions that are typical of civil litigation (including conditional fee agreement), property, probate, company and commercial work. Students will also practice preparing completion statements. As well as these transactional exercises, students will encounter stand alone exercises in which they are required to apply the Rules and identify an appropriate course of action.
Students will be given an intensive introduction to Solicitors¿ Accounts in the foundation course, with 2 LGS and 2 SGS. This is followed by a further 3 LGS and 3 SGS. Ordinarily a topic will be introduced in LGS before being explored in SGS the following week.
As well as these discreet sessions, students will also be required to identify SAR issues as they arise in the Core Practice Areas and deal with these in an appropriate manner. In particular, Solicitors¿ Accounts will be regularly encountered in PLP, Civil Litigation and Probate.
Students will have a mock assessment in Solicitors¿ Accounts which will be marked and returned to students, to enable students to reflect on their performance before the assessment.
