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Bachelor of Law (with Honours) - LLB (Hons)
University of Wolverhampton
Full Time
Jan 2028
3 Year
The LLB degree provides a qualifying law degree enabling successful to prepare for the Bar Professional Training Course (Barrister). Additionally, the LLB is designed to provide preparatory legal education for those wishing to qualify as solicitors by undertaking the new Solicitors Qualifying Examination. Our LLB degree course acts as the first step to a career in law. It equips students with the skills and knowledge to progress onto the Bar Professional Training Course in order to become a qualified barrister. Alternatively, for those wishing to qualify as solicitors, the LLB degree acts as a preparatory legal education for the Solicitors Qualifying Examination. The LLB course offers subject-specific teachings of the areas of law known as the Foundations of Legal Knowledge. These comprise of: constitutional and administrative law and human rights law law of the European Union criminal law contract law tort property law equity and trusts Full-time (3 years),Part-time (6 years)
Through the study of this module, students will develop key independent study skills as well as areas of their legal knowledge, using practical legal research skills to further their knowledge base within the context of guided learning activities. They will be supported in this process by a series of lectures focusing on research techniques and workshops / seminars in which these skills will be applied. The module will enhance their skills in research, reasoning, interpretation, writing, presentation and organisation. In addition to legal skills and knowledge, employability issues will be also be addressed in this module, enabling students to research career paths and develop CVs and applications for specific organisations both within and outside of the legal profession . The Wolverhampton Enterprise and Employability Award (WEEA) (Bronze & Silver Awards) will be completed as part of the module. The Wolverhampton Enterprise and Employability Award (WEEA) is an award which gives students and graduates recognition for work experience and career management activities. It can be completed through career related modules or as an extra-curricular activity. The WEEA will benefit students by supporting them to gain a better understanding of the workplace that they will enter upon graduating, to build plans to tackle the transition between studying and work and to build the work experience and skills required to prove to employers that they are employable.
Constitutional and Administrative Law looks at the organisation of the State, key aspects of the British Constitution, Parliamentary Sovereignty, Judicial Control, the Human Rights Act 1998, the European Convention on Human Rights and the Equality Act 2010
The module aims to develop a knowledge and understanding of the basic principles of contract law by considering the requirements for a legally binding agreement, with particular emphasis on the formation of a contract and the contents of a contract, including exclusion of liability.
The Criminal Law module involves study of the general principles of criminal law including secondary participation and attempts. It covers the requirements of various offences that may be committed against the person including murder, manslaughter and non-fatal offences. As well as offences against the person, the module involves the study of theft, burglary, robbery, fraud, criminal damage and arson. As criminal liability requires that the actus reus and mens rea of the crime has been committed in the absence of a valid defence, the module also looks at intoxication and self-defence, along with murder-specific defences.
The module aims to provide students with foundation knowledge of the principal features of the English Legal System as well as developing many of the practical lawyering, study and employability skills required by students throughout their legal education and into employment. The approach is very practical and designed to enable students to develop the required skills at their own speed. Personal development planning and self-reflection are important features of this module.
This module will cover the basic character of tortious liability; The origins of the tort of negligence. The historical development of the duty of care. The standard of care and breach of the duty of care. Causation in fact and law. Nervous shock law. Pure economic loss and liability for omissions. Occupiers' liability and trespass to the person. You will also examine the availability of tortious defences in these areas.
Having already studied the essential elements required for the formation of a contract, the discharge of a contract and remedies for breach of contract, this module aims to develop a knowledge and understanding of the factors which may affect the validity of a contract either prior to its formation or after its formation. The module also aims to develop a knowledge and understanding of the rights of a party or of a third party to enforce a contractual term.
This module aims to provide knowledge and understanding of the basic principles of English land law and an introduction to the various rights and interests which can exist in land, with particular reference to the development of equity, registered & unregistered land, trusts of land & co-ownership, freehold covenants, leases, easements and mortgage.
The module aims, through taught classes and independent (but guided) research, to develop a knowledge and understanding of the underlying principles of equity and, in particular, of the legal rules relating to the creation, purpose and nature of private trusts. The student will explore the rules of equity and statutory formality requirements relating to the creation of express private trusts and trusts implied by law, the nature and duties associated with the office of trusteeship, and issues relating to breaches of trust, including proprietary remedies.
Membership of the European Union has had a profound, and often controversial, effect on the constitutions and national legal systems of its member states, as well as the lives of the citizens of those states. The Treaty of Rome and a succession of subsequent amending treaties, together with the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the work of other Union institutions, have significantly advanced the cause of European legal integration. This integration has been achieved sometimes with the support of member state governments and often times in the face of significant member state government and popular opposition. & nbsp; The most significant development in European Union law has perhaps been the establishment of the internal market (sometimes referred to as the & lsquo;single market& rsquo;), which provides for the free movement of citizens, goods, services and capital within the external boundaries of the Union. The establishment of the internal market has in turn led to an increasing harmonisation of national laws in the European Union in a large number of areas. The drive to achieve the realisation of the internal market has also caused the Union& rsquo;s institutions, in particular its Court of Justice, to develop and expand the treaties& rsquo; existing enforcement mechanisms to ensure the uniformity and effectiveness of European Union law. & nbsp; This module explores the themes above, focussing particularly on the institutional framework of the Union; the manner in which Union laws are made; the effect of Union law; the mechanisms to ensure the enforcement of Union law; and, the law of the internal market.
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