Law with Foundation Year Canterbury Christ Church University

Overview

Your Qualifying Law degree will enable you to progress to the vocational stage of lawyer’s training, to qualify as either a solicitor or barrister. This original and innovative course has been designed in consultation with senior managers to give you both a theoretical and practical experience. 

As part of your Law with Foundation Year degree at Canterbury Christ Church University, you will have the option to get involved with practical justice including opportunities to shadow a local judge and experience live mediations from our in-house Medication Clinic. Through our strong links with the local community, Citizens Advice, and local courts, you will have the opportunity to act as a Community Legal Companion for unrepresented parties at court. This is an excellent opportunity for you to gain hands-on work experience in a legal setting.

The modules you will study during the LLB (Hons) Law degree include: Public Law, Law of Obligations and Criminal Law English Legal System and Law in Society Employment, Medical Law, Intellectual Property and Internet Law.

Why study this degree?

During the degree, you'll develop a critical understanding of the main principles, themes and methods of law so that you:

• Become a conscious legal professional.
• Acquire and apply your critical mind to the evaluation and appreciation of contemporary socio-legal issues.
• Experience practical learning as part of the legal education experience.

Throughout the course, you'll develop transferable skills that will be essential as you embark on your career in law. You'll build your confidence and abilities in communication, research, evaluation, critical judgement, time management, team working, and meeting tight deadlines. We'll also support you with specialist training in areas such as writing and advocacy skills, and we will help to prepare you for the next steps in your career, for example by doing one-to-one mock interview sessions.

Your future career

In addition to all the LLB degrees being Qualifying Law Degrees, they have designed our degrees in consultation with external stakeholders, such as local law practitioners as well as a range of local organisations. This ensures we help you to develop the skills which are highly valued by employers, with examples including written and verbal communication, initiative, time management, flexibility and teamwork.

 Many graduates use these skills to become a barrister or solicitor, but others establish careers in education, public services, HRM, management, as paralegals, chartered secretaries or in financial services. This qualification can also be used to progress on to postgraduate study in law, such as an LLM, or in related areas such as management, marketing and accountancy.