PGDip Professional Legal Practice

The Professional Legal Practice Postgraduate Diploma is designed as a conversion course for non-law graduates who are seeking to transition to a career in law. You’ll learn both the law and its practical application to realistic client-based and ethical problems and situations. The course will provide you with a solid foundation to qualify either as a solicitor or a barrister, whichever profession you decide upon.

The knowledge gained on this course will allow you to progress to further study for the Solicitors’ Qualifying Examination (SQE) or for a Bar Standards Board authorised barristers’ training course. You will learn the essential foundation areas of legal knowledge needed for a career in law.

You’ll be able to develop key, relevant skills in your tutorials, looking at writing, drafting, interviewing and advising, research, case and matter analysis and advocacy. You’ll be assessed by a variety of authentic assessments which include advocacy, a case study report and analysis of a legal case. These will provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate that you have acquired competence in a range of essential professional legal skills in addition to understanding the substantive law.