Practice areas
Core programmes - we produce 76 new core programmes each year across ten specialist practice area ‘channels’. Eight new core programmes are produced for each channel each year, with the exception of our Local Government channel where there are four.
Please click on the links below for more information on the subject areas covered by each channel:
Property Channel
Corporate/Commercial Channel
Practice Management and Compliance Channel
Dispute Resolution Channel
Local Government Channel
Personal Injury Channel
Crime Channel
Private Client Channel
Employment Channel
Family Channel
Performance skills – there are currently 10 programmes in this package, with 6 new programmes a year.
- Teamwork
- Presentation Skills for Lawyers
- Dealing with Stress
- Business Continuity Management
- Confidentiality
- Protecting Employers Business Interests
- Reputation, Branding and Crisis Management
- Performance Appraisals
- Complaints Handling
- Firm wide Business Skills
i-Tutorials – you can choose from 103 i-Tutorials across 11 channels.
Employment
Property
Criminal Practice
Family
Commercial Dispute Resolution
Private Client: Wills, Trusts and Estates
Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence
Business Law and Practice
Acquisitions
Business Finance and Legal Practice
Housing Law and Practice
Core programmes
Property Channel
- Commercial landlord and tenant
- Residential conveyancing
- Planning
- Tax
- Land registration
- Covenants and easements
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Corporate/Commercial Channel
- Commercial contracts
- Company law
- Competition
- Corporate insolvency
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Intellectual property
- Finance
- Tax
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Practice Management and Compliance Channel
- Legal services regulation
- Solicitors’ Code of Conduct
- Money laundering
- Corporate social responsibility and pro bono
- Solicitors’ accounts
- Management structures and techniques
- PR and business development
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Dispute Resolution Channel
- Contract disputes
- Civil procedure
- ADR
- Costs
- Privilege
- Defamation
- Specialist courts
- Debt recovery
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Local Government Channel
- Local authority governance
- Housing
- Highways
- Planning and compulsory purchase
- Public procurement
- Public health
- Environment and waste regulation
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Personal Injury Channel
- RTAs
- Tripping and slipping
- Procedure
- Occupational disease
- Occupiers’ and Employers’ Liability
- Clinical negligence
- Funding
- Costs
- Damages
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Crime Channel
- Offences
- Procedure
- Evidence
- Sentencing
- Youth crime
- Anti-social behaviour
- Police powers
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Private Client Channel
- Probate
- Estate administration
- UK trusts
- International/offshore trusts
- Tax planning
- Charities
- Mental health and capacity
- Elderly client
- Contentious trusts and probate
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Employment Channel
- Employment terms and conditions
- TUPE
- Flexible working and family friendly policies
- Redundancy
- Dismissal
- Discrimination
- Unions
- Tribunal practice and procedure
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Family Channel
- Marriage, civil partnerships and cohabitation
- Children: public and private
- Ancillary relief
- Divorce and dissolution
- Domestic violence
- International issues and jurisdiction
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i-Tutorials
Employment
- Unfair Dismissal
- Redundancy Payments
- Overlapping Claims, Tribunal Procedures & Settlements
- Transfers of Undertakings
- Disability Discrimination
- The Contract of Employment
- Sex and Race Discrimination
- Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures
- Wrongful Dismissal
- Other Discrimination Claims
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Property
- Resolution of Contaminated Land Issues
- Planning
- Environmental Law
- Liability for Defects in Construction
- Lease Negotiation
- Property Acquisition
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Criminal Practice
- Advanced Police Station Skills
- Further Advanced Police Station Skills
- Advanced Bail
- Advanced Evidence
- Getting to the Crown Court
- In the Crown Court and Beyond
- Juveniles at the Police Station
- The Youth Court
- Road Traffic Sentencing
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Family
- Introduction to Family Law
- Private Children Law
- The Cohabiting Family
- Divorce and Dissolution
- Ancillary Relief - Factors
- Ancillary Relief - Orders
- Ancillary Relief - Procedure
- Public Children Law
- Domestic Abuse
- Consolidation
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Commercial Dispute Resolution
- Introduction to Commercial Dispute Resolution
- Introduction to Injunctions and Interim Prohibitory Injunctions
- Freezing Injunctions and Search Orders
- Case Management and Preparation for Trial
- Interim Applications
- Evidence
- Getting the Evidence Right
- Trials and Appeals
- Regulatory and Disciplinary Proceedings
- Judicial Review
- Introduction to Specialist Courts
- ADR and Mediation
- Preparing for and Conducting the CMC
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Private Client: Wills, Trusts and Estates
- Introduction to Settlements
- Managing Settlements
- Will Trusts: Flexible Drafting
- Drafting Wills
- Paying Trust Capital to Beneficiaries
- Helping Clients Plan
- IHT Efficient Wills
- Estate Planning
- Settlements Attracting Special Tax Treatment
- Tying it all Together
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Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence
- Introduction to Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence Claims
- Injury at Work
- Overview and Practical Considerations
- Road Traffic Claims
- Clinical Negligence
- Commencing Proceedings (Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence)
- Claims in Respect of Death
- Special damages, schedules of damage and related matters
- General damages and related matters
- Settlement and ADR (Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence)
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Business Law and Practice
- Directors - Legal Status
- Directors' Duties
- Directors – Transactions
- Corporate Decision-making
- Introduction to Insolvency and Liquidation
- Other Company Insolvency Procedures
- Maximising the Assets in an Insolvent Company
- Personal Insolvency
- Partnership - Formation, Agreements & Dissolution
- Partnership - Liability for Debts
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Acquisitions
- Introduction to Acquisitions
- The Acquisition Process and Preliminary Documentation
- Due Diligence in Acquisitions
- Price and Payment in Acquisitions
- Warranties, Representations and Indemnities in Acquisitions
- Exchange and Completion in Acquisitions
- Asset Acquisitions
- Private Equity
- Merger Control
- Group Re-organisations
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Business Finance and Legal Practice
- Financial and Non-Financial Markets
- Overview of Analytic Techniques in Strategy
- Profitability in a PSF
- Strategy and Strategic Alignment in a PSF
- Relationship selling and account management in a PSF
- Leading and Managing in a Law Firm
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Housing Law and Practice
- Harassment, Eviction and Long Leaseholders
- Private Sector Lettings
- Public Sector - Allocations and Security
- Public Sector - Tenants Rights
- Housing Benefit, Public Funding and Human Rights
- Disrepair
- Possession Proceedings
- Housing Homelessness - General Principles
- Housing Homelessness - Procedures
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For more information on College of Law Media visit our overview page.
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