Law (Accelerated Route)

Build essential skills for researching, studying, and applying the law, plus the professional skills needed to excel and thrive throughout your course.

Develop knowledge, understanding, and application of criminal law by examining the elements of a criminal offence, focusing on specific types of offences, and analysing liability.

Explore the constitutional arrangements of the UK and the operation of the state apparatus. Study the role of human rights, the function of administrative law as well as EU Law.

Examine the operation of the Anglo-Welsh system; its sources, institutions, personnel and processes, and the social and political context in which it operates.

Study the fundamentals of contract law, the cornerstone of civil liability, and the foundation for many other parts of the course, applying it through a range of scenarios.

Learn the fundamentals of the Law of Torts, the cornerstone of private and public tortious liability, again laying the foundations for future study throughout the course.

Study and apply core legal principles and rules effectively, while demonstrating a thorough understanding of advocacy ethics and etiquette.

Gain expertise in express and implied trusts, fiduciary relationships, trustees’ duties, powers, liabilities, and equitable remedies.

Understand and apply the law in areas such as registered and unregistered land, freehold and leasehold estates, the landlord/tenant relationship and more.

Critically examine the structures, personnel, methods, and substantive laws of the English Legal System and other legal systems through the lens of theoretical legal perspectives.

Explore socio-legal aspects of criminal law, age of responsibility, and laws concerning serious crimes like homicide and sexual offences.

Earn credits while volunteering at the Legal Advice Clinic for 20 weeks, helping members of the community with legal issues and engaging with practising lawyers.

Examine the rules of commercial law and legislative decisions and their impact on businesses, looking at the sale of goods, passing of property, title clauses, and more.

Engage in a detailed research project on a new area of legislation, or work in the Legal Advice Clinic’s policy clinic – great if you want to focus on how law is made.

Develop intellectual curiosity and academic rigour with an individual research project of your choosing. What contemporary legal issue will you explore?

Explore the law relating to the formation of companies, as well as Corporate Social Responsibility and what to do when a company becomes financially troubled.

Apply the law to problems around dismissal, statutory rights, redundancy, and discrimination in the workplace.

Apply legal knowledge and skills to issues such as divorce and nullity, domestic abuse, financial provision and property.

Examine how technology, including AI, big data, and cybersecurity, shapes legal practice today and in the future, alongside professional and ethical issues.

Examine the constitutional and substantive laws of the European Union and European Human Rights, including their history and how they relate to the national law of the UK.

Explore how history has shaped our laws today, from Roman Law to Canon Law and common law, and consider the development of women’s position within the law.

Explore complex medico-legal issues, including clinical negligence, mental health, reproduction, birth, parenthood, euthanasia, and organ donation.

Work on a research project to educate local schools, charities, or community groups about a specific area of law, enhancing public understanding.

Analyse and apply evidence rules in criminal trials, focusing on the burden of proof and laws and procedures related to witnesses.

Explore the rules of the law relating to criminal evidence and apply the impact of the rules of evidence in a criminal trial. You’ll learn through practising in our moot courtroom and hydra suite.

Understand the principles of Land Law in England and Wales and the issues with registered and unregistered land, freehold and leasehold as well as landlord and tenant relationships.