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LPC course content and assessment

What will you study?

You’ll follow three areas of integrated study – core practice areas, skills and additional areas -  plus a choice of three vocational electives. The precise content of your course and your choice of electives will vary according to which of the LPC routes you are studying.

Stage 1

Core practice areas

These are studied in either corporate or commercial and private contexts:

Skills

Additional areas

Stage 2

Vocational electives

You will study three vocational electives relevant to your choice of LPC route from the list below:

Elective subject  Corporate route
Choose three from...
Commercial and private route
Choose three from...
Legal aid route
at least two from the following...
Firm-specific route 
Choose three from...
Acquisitions 
 
Advanced criminal practice 
 
 
Advanced property law and practice 
 
 
Banking and debt finance 
 
Commercial dispute resolution 
 
 
Commercial law 
 
 
Employment law and practice 
 
 
Family law 
 
 
Housing law and practice 
 
 
Insurance law 
 
 
Personal injury and clinical negligence litigation 
 
 
 
Private client: wills, trusts and estate planning 
 
 
 
Public companies and equity finance 
 
Welfare benefits and immigration law 
 
 

Assessment

You’ll be assessed on the core practice areas and vocational electives by examination. The core practice area examination will also incorporate the skills of Writing & Drafting. Your oral skills will be assessed by a video performance and other written skills by coursework.