Leeds Beckett University - City Campus
Leeds Beckett University - City Campus

City Campus, Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber, United Kingdom

Postgraduate Diploma - Legal Practice Course

Postgraduate Diploma

Program Summary

Completing this course will part fulfill the vocational stage of their training to qualify as a solicitor. Recognized by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, it meets the authority's training requirements and covers a range of legal subjects prescribed by the professional body.

Their learning will focus on realistic case studies and they will take part in workshops that explore the challenges of professional practice. They will be taught by a team of academic staff who are qualified lawyers with wide-ranging professional experience. The expertise of the academic staff will feed into their learning and they will be able to support them through a variety of option modules as they start to explore particular areas of interest.

As a student of Leeds Law School, they will be able to access a wide range of law textbooks online for free through Law Trove, a subscription-only service offered by Oxford University Press.

This course will provide credit points at masters level, and they could further enhance their future employability by completing a dissertation to secure a masters in law. Further details can be found on the LLM Legal Practice Course page.

Academic Background

Minimum Level of Education Completed

4-Year Bachelor's Degree

Minimum GPA

65%

Minimum Language Test Scores

Reading

5.5

Writing

5.5

Listening

5.5

Speaking

5.5

Reading

51

Writing

51

Listening

51

Speaking

51

Program Intakes

Open date

January 1, 2025

Submission deadline

July 1, 2025

Open date

January 1, 2026

Submission deadline

July 1, 2026

Cost and Duration

Postgraduate Diploma

Program Level

1 year master's degree

Program Length

£12180 GBP

Cost of Living

£0 GBP

Application fee

£13000 GBP / First Year

Gross Tuition