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Legal Practice – (Grad.Dip.)
Oxford Brookes University
School of Law
| Application Deadline: | as early as possible | ||
| Location: | Oxford / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 9 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Oxford Brookes University
The LPC is a compulsory vocational course for all intending solicitors.
The Oxford Institute of Legal Practice (OXILP) offers the course in full-time and part-time modes. The OXILP LPC has achieved the highest SRA grading across all assessment areas and is currently validated by Oxford Brookes University and the University of Oxford.
The OXILP LPC is a broadly based course suitable both for commercial and non-commercial practice. OXILP alumni go on to work in all areas of the law - at large city firms, regional commercial firms and High Street practices.
The course is designed to maximise students’ employability, and significant careers support is provided. It includes a distinctive emphasis on the law firm as a business, developed in conjunction with local law firms.
Students who successfully complete the LPC will have the opportunity to top up their LPC to an LLM in Legal Practice.
Why Brookes?
OXILP prides itself on the level of one-to-one support it can offer its students. Due to its relatively small size, in premises centred in and around Headington Hill Hall, OXILP has a friendly, collegial atmosphere where students are treated as individuals.
All of the tutors at OXILP are ex-practitioners who teach the areas in which they practised.
The OXILP LPC is endorsed by many leading leading firms of solicitors including Henmans, Ince & Co, Orrick, Clarke Willmott, Manches and Morgan Cole.
Contents
Course length
Full-time: PGDip: 9 months (for students who take Parts 1 and 2)
Part-time: PGDip: 21 months (for students who take Parts 1 and 2)
Compulsory elements: Business Law, Property Law, Litigation, Accounts, Probate and Revenue
Pervasive and core areas: Business Accounts, Solicitors’ Accounts, Professional Conduct and Regulation
Skills: Advocacy, Drafting, Legal Writing, Legal Research, Interviewing and Advising
Elective subjects: (students choose three): Commercial Law, Commercial Property, Debt Finance, Employment Law, Equity Finance, Family Law, Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence, Private Acquisitions, Private Client, Criminal Litigation.
We include a commercial awareness component in our LPC, in which students learn about the law firm as a business, about how it is marketed and how its finances work. Students take the business game, a computer generated simulation of a year in the life of a set of trading companies.
We have also introduced the extended skills assessment, in which students conduct a client interview, follow that up with relevant legal research and then write a letter of advice to a client. This creates a higher level of realism in the assessment students undertake.
The civil and criminal mock trials are also noteworthy. These consist of demonstration civil and criminal mock trials which are conducted by visiting barristers and a judge, with students taking the roles of witnesses. They are followed by the opportunity for all students to carry out their own mock trials at the old Oxford Crown Court in the context of the main civil and criminal litigation case studies as part of the civil and criminal litigation course. DVD recordings of the civil and criminal mock trials are also made available to students to assist them in their preparation for the civil and criminal trial advocacy sessions.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
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Admission
* Qualifying law degree (minimum 2:2)
* Evidence of motivation to be a solicitor.
International applications
International students must have a qualifying English law degree.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
Accreditation
Accredited by Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)
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