Professional Practice LLM (Top-up)
University of Worcester
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This course is designed for practising legal professionals. Allowing you to top-up your existing legal qualifications to a full Master’s degree.At Worcester well support you to deepen your legal knowledge within your current specialism, or you can choose to branch out into a new area of the law. You’ll learn about research methods, then apply this to plan and write a dissertation.All of which will help you stand out from the competition in your legal career.How will you be taught?You are taught ...Read more

This course is designed for practising legal professionals. Allowing you to top-up your existing legal qualifications to a full Master’s degree.

At Worcester we'll support you to deepen your legal knowledge within your current specialism, or you can choose to branch out into a new area of the law. You’ll learn about research methods, then apply this to plan and write a dissertation.

All of which will help you stand out from the competition in your legal career.

How will you be taught?

You are taught through a combination of interactive workshops designed to develop skills of legal research and supervisory tutorials. These are delivered both on campus and on line through the University Virtual Learning Environment.

Assessment

The course provides opportunities to test understanding and learning informally through the completion of practice or ‘formative’ assignments. Each module has one formal or ‘summative’ assessment which is graded and counts towards the overall module grade.

As students on the Programme will already have completed 120 credits of postgraduate study composed of structured taught learning opportunities, the 60 credits which makeup the LLM Professional Practice (Top-Up) are devoted to the preparation for and the creation of a research project in the form of a dissertation. The assessment is divided between the plan for a dissertation in the Legal Research Methods module and the Dissertation itself. In most instances, the Research Plan will be on the same research topic as the final dissertation. However, students can undertake a different research topic if advised to do so by their supervisor.

Assessments include a 3000-word research proposal for the Research Methods module and a 10000-word dissertation for the Dissertation Module.

Where could it take you?

This course could be your stepping stone into a new area of law, or enhance your career options by gaining more in-depth knowledge in your current specialism.

It’s also an opportunity to explore an academic career route - allowing you to move from practice to research. It will prepare you for PhD research and could lead to roles in academia.

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88th
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Sukhleen
24 Jan 24

This univeristy is amazing. They offer a lot of support and the courses I am on make sure we are well supported during our time here. However, the location is not the best if you..Read more

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Desislava
14 Dec 23

It has great facilities and the staff is very committed and friendly. A way they could improve is by organising more student events at City campus because most of them take place..Read more

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Entry requirements

Typical students entering onto the LLM in Professional Practice (Top-Up) will have passed either the: Legal Practice Course (LPC) or Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) or equivalent post graduate diploma legal practice qualifications.

Tuition fees

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£8,180 per year

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£8,180 per year

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Students from EU

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£15,800 per year

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Sukhleen
24 Jan 24
Law LLB (Hons)
This univeristy is amazing. They offer a lot of support and the courses I am on make sure we are well supported during our time here. However, the location is not the best if you...
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Desislava
14 Dec 23
Law LLB (Hons)
It has great facilities and the staff is very committed and friendly. A way they could improve is by organising more student events at City campus because most of them take place...
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University of Worcester
University of Worcester , Worcester

Located in a historic cathedral city in the West Midlands and only 45 minutes from Birmingham, the University of Worcester is home...

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Henwick Grove Worcester Worcestershire WR2 6AJ United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Worcester Shrub Hill  0.9 miles away

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