LLM Legal Practice

University of Winchester

The LLM in Legal Practice at Winchester is designed to prepare you for employment as a trainee solicitor. Whilst developing the legal knowledge and skills needed to pass the Solicitors Qualifying Examination required for practice as a solicitor, you will also enhance your specialist knowledge and research capability, and have the opportunity to extend your practical experience through a work placement.This 1-year full-time or 2-years part-time programme is designed to provide you with a rigorous and challenging postgraduate degree in law that develops an enhanced understanding, and critical awareness of current problems and new insights into the relationship between Law, State and Individual, and the contexts in which the law operates, alongside allowing you to understand and apply the functioning legal knowledge, and the legal skills required by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to undertake the mandatory Solicitors Qualification Examination (SQE1 & 2).To deliver this comprehensive programme, the University of Winchester has entered into a collaboration with The College of Legal Practice, an experienced, fully accredited Higher Education provider of online professional legal training programmes. You will be taught by a range of experienced Winchester academics sharing their expertise and research interests, alongside experienced legal practitioners from The College of Legal Practice.Your learning will take place via a blended approach of campus-based, weekly three-hour workshops, personal tutor, and supervisor meetings, and online through a combination of asynchronous guided self-study learning, online supervisor and town hall meetings and study resources, including text, multimedia, interactive text and video.

Department of Law