Law courses 2022/23

Law

Undergraduate study

Undergraduate Law courses at the University of Huddersfield, starting in 2022. University of Huddersfield, inspiring global professions.

2022/23

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Networking Our Law School Professional Mentoring scheme successfully enables our students to bridge the gap between education and working in the legal sector.

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Award Winning Huddersfield Business School winners of the National Undergraduate Employability (NUE) Awards for Best University Placement Service in 2021.

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We are joint-first in the UK for the proportion of professionallyqualified teaching staff (HESA 2021).

So, you’ll learn from some of the best lecturers, helping you to be the best.

Throughout your time at university you have access to specialised support, from help with your timetable to academic and legal skills.

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Law

Law and Practice

LLB(Hons)

LLB(Hons)

Your course

Course info

Your course

Course info

Whether you’re intending to use the LLB degree as the start of your legal career in the legal profession, or as the stepping stone for other career opportunities, Huddersfield Law School will give you the very best in legal teaching. This degree gives you a comprehensive Qualifying Law Degree with access to lots of different optional modules and a whole final year devoted to your own choices. You can create a business law pathway, social justice and human rights pathway or focus on wider areas of law such as family law, environmental law or international law.

Course length: 3 years full-time 4 years inc. placement year

Our Law and Practice degree focuses on developing your real-world skills and provides all the learning for a Qualifying Law Degree as well as developing your advocacy, legal drafting and legal practice skills and building a solid foundation for you to become a competent and knowledgeable practitioner of law. This degree provides an intensive pathway in your third year with all modules designed to allow you to work towards taking the new Solicitor’s Qualifying Exams (SQE1) following the completion of your Law degree.

Course length: 3 years full-time 4 years inc. placement year

As well as gaining an understanding of the law itself, studying a law degree will teach you a wide range of essential skills such as how to construct an argument, how to present yourself and your ideas, the importance of attention to detail, and the ability to work in a team as well as on your own initiative. You’ll gain a firm understanding of legal principles and core legal concepts and you’ll be able to start focusing on the topics that interest you in your second year and spend your final year studying your choices from a wide range of specialised modules. You may decide to take up the opportunity to be part of our Legal Advice Clinic, where you will work closely with practising solicitors and help them with real cases.*

Entry requirements: ABB/DDM/128

92% Graduates employed* *Percentage of graduates from this subject who are in work and/or further study fifteen months after graduating (HESA Graduate Outcomes 17/18, UK domiciled graduates).

• Criminal Law • Law in Society • Business Law and Practice

• Environmental Law • Humans Right Law • International Law

*Available from Year 2 subject to availability and successfully completing a competency assessment. **LinkedIn

“Gaining practical experience at the Legal Advice Clinic has given me a great opportunity to practice my research skills and apply my knowledge of different areas of law to everyday issues.”

Dervinder Roth LLB (Hons) Law, Paralegal at DLA Piper

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• Professional Conduct • Equity and Trusts • Dispute Resolution

Your future

Your future Previous graduates from this subject area have gone on to roles such as Solicitor, Trainee Solicitor, Paralegal, Legal Assistant, People Operations Partner and Housing Officer in organisations including Eversheds, Holden Smith, Irwin Mitchell, Ison Harrison Solicitors, Knights Plc, Ramsdens, Ridley & Hall, Schofield Sweeney Solicitors, Waddington Turner Wall, Walker Morris, Williscroft Solicitors, as well as working with local councils, Finance and Aviation. **

As well as gaining an understanding of the law itself, studying a law degree will teach you a wide range of essential skills such as how to construct an argument, how to communicate with clients, the importance of attention to detail, and the ability to work in a team as well as on your own initiative. You’ll gain a firm understanding of legal principles and core legal concepts. You’ll be able to start focusing on the topics that interest you in your second year and will spend the whole of your final year, studying legal practice skills-based modules. You may decide to take up the opportunity to be part of our Legal Advice Clinic, where you will work closely with practising solicitors and help them with real cases.*

Example modules

Example modules • Public Law • Law in Society • EU Law

Entry requirements: ABB/DDM/128

Previous graduates from this subject area have gone on to roles such as Solicitor, Trainee Solicitor, Paralegal, Legal Assistant, People Operations Partner and Housing Officer in organisations including Eversheds, Holden Smith, Irwin Mitchell, Ison Harrison Solicitors, Knights Plc, Ramsdens, Ridley & Hall, Schofield Sweeney Solicitors, Waddington Turner Wall, Walker Morris, Williscroft Solicitors, as well as working with local councils, Finance and Aviation.** *Available from Year 2 subject to availability and successfully completing a competency assessment. **LinkedIn

“I would absolutely recommend the University, to a potential student. Providing that you throw yourself into the experience and put the work in, the opportunities on offer both during university and afterwards are expansive. I also found the environment to be a very friendly and welcoming one, with lecturers who are keen for their students to succeed and will go the extra mile to facilitate that.”

Jordan Yelland-Hey MLP(Hons) Law inc LLB, Trainee Solicitor at Clarion Solicitors For more detailed course information visit courses.hud.ac.uk

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Law with Criminology

Integrated Masters in Law and Practice

LLB(Hons)

MLaw (incorporating LLB(Hons))

Your course

Course info

Your course

Course info

The LLB (Hons) Law with Criminology is a distinctive programme offering you the ability to take a fully Qualifying Law Degree and combine this with Criminology. It offers an excellent way to prepare for a career in the field of criminal justice (for example, Crown Prosecution Service, the police service, probation service, prison service or other related fields).

Course length: 3 years full-time 4 years inc. placement year

This degree is a unique programme that aims to give you access to both a wide range of legal theory by incorporating a full LLB law degree, as well as taking an extended approach to professional practice with additional specialist practicebased training and clinical legal experience.*

Course length: 4 years full-time

This course will enable you to study the essential foundations of law while exploring the impacts and explanations for crime including punishment and victimisation. You’ll gain an in-depth understanding of legal principles and core legal concepts. You’ll take law and criminology modules each year and be able to start focussing on the topics that interest you in your second and third year, when you can choose from a range of optional modules.

You’ll be taught by experts from both disciplines who have a wide range of research and practice specialism, giving you an insight into what it’s like working in positions in the criminal justice or legal practice fields.

Example modules • Public Law • Law in Society • Human Rights Law

• Working with offenders • Approaches to Policing • Violent Crime

Your future Employment prospects for students remain strong in the areas of law and criminology, management consultancy, multinational organisations and government agencies. Recent graduates from similar courses at the University, have gone on to work for leading FTSE-100 companies, the Government, the media, industry and manufacturing.

Entry requirements: ABB/DDM/120

92% Graduates employed* *Percentage of graduates from this subject who are in work and/or further study fifteen months after graduating (HESA Graduate Outcomes 17/18, UK domiciled graduates).

As you would expect, the course is rigorous and engaging, for outcomes that are highly rewarding. Graduating with a Qualifying Law Degree, as well as with a Masters qualification, you’ll learn the skills designed to allow you to work towards taking the new Solicitor’s Qualifying Exams and be able to pace these over years three and four.

Entry requirements: ABB/DDM/128

In your final year, you’ll gain access to a range of specialist modules such as Commercial Property, Employment or Family Law and Practice and Immigration and Asylum Practice to help prepare you for professional practice in these fields.

Alongside this, if your application to the Legal Advice Clinic is successful, you’ll get the opportunity* to spend up to a full academic year working with solicitors with real life clients building up your formal Qualifying Legal Work Experience, that is needed to become a solicitor. As well as gaining an understanding of the law itself, studying a law degree will teach you a wide range of essential skills such as how to construct an argument, how to communicate with clients, the importance of attention to detail, and the ability to work in a team as well as on your own initiative.

Example modules • • • •

Dispute Resolution Legal Advice Clinic Criminal Litigation Professional Conduct

• Family Law and Practice • Immigration and Asylum Law and Practice

Your future Previous graduates from this subject area have gone on to roles such as Solicitor, Trainee Solicitor, Paralegal, Legal Assistant, People Operations Partner and Housing Officer in organisations including Eversheds, Holden Smith, Irwin Mitchell, Ison Harrison Solicitors, Knights Plc, Ramsdens, Ridley & Hall, Schofield Sweeney Solicitors, Waddington Turner Wall, Walker Morris, Williscroft Solicitors, as well as working with local councils, Finance and Aviation. ** *Available from Year 2 subject to availability and successfully completing a competency assessment. **LinkedIn

“A unique course that gets the best of both worlds, combining an LLB with a Masters degree, focused around the SQE, specialist legal training for practice and the opportunity to get qualifying work experience in the Law Clinic.”

Professor Kasim Sheikh, Head of Huddersfield Law School

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Global Professional Award At Huddersfield we’re proud to inspire global professionals, which is why you’ll study the Global Professional Award alongside your undergraduate degree.* The Award is accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (Level 5), meaning you’ll graduate with an additional internationally recognised qualification which will help to set you apart from other graduates, and develop valuable qualities that we know employers are looking for.

Three areas of focus The Careers and Employability focus of the course helps you understand your own aspirations and ambitions. You’ll learn how to turn these into a really powerful tool when it comes to getting a job after you graduate. Going to university can be a transformative experience, but it can also be a little scary. The Wellbeing focus of the course is about giving you the time and support to reflect and transform, from meeting and developing relationships with new people to mental strength and resilience. Through the Enterprise focus you’ll gain new viewpoints to consider and perhaps challenge your current perceptions of the world and how you can have an impact in the future.

Becoming a highly employable graduate Completing the Award will support you to transform into a highly employable graduate who is: • Self-motivated • Enterprising • Resilient

• Able to collaborate with others • A confident leader • Globally and socially aware

How do I complete the Award?

We make it as simple as possible. You’ll complete the Award through a mixture of online and face to face workshops and self-directed learning activities. This will take approximately 1 hour per week, so you’ll still have plenty of time to focus on your degree and your social life.

A key aspect of the Award is that each year you build a portfolio of experiential learning activities by engaging with opportunities within the University and the local community.

You’ll be supported to complete the Award by staff who are specialists in the three areas of Careers and Employability, Wellbeing and Enterprise, plus the lecturers on your course and your PATs will help you to understand how you can get involved.

Find out more about the Global Professional Award at hud.ac/gpa *Full-time, undergraduate first degrees with a minimum duration of three years. This does not include postgraduate, foundation, top-up, accelerated or apprenticeship degrees.

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Top We enter students into mooting competitions, using our mock courtroom to help simulate real-life legal environments.

Middle The Law School occupies the whole top floor of the Oastler Building Bottom Our students have opportunities to give legal advice to the public through the Legal Advice Clinic, based in the town centre.

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The legal bit This brochure was prepared in the spring of 2021 for courses starting in September 2022 and is up to date as at the date of publication. Any subsequent changes to information will be published in the course information listings on our website courses. hud.ac.uk, and you should check this for the latest information before you apply.

Changes to a course you have applied for If we propose to make a major change to a course that you are holding an offer for, then we will tell you as soon as possible so that you can decide whether to withdraw your application prior to enrolment.

Changes to your course after you enrol as a student We will always try to deliver your course and other services as described. However, sometimes we may have to make changes as set out below: Changes to option modules Where your course allows you to choose modules from a range of options, we will review these each year and change them to reflect the expertise of our staff, current trends in research and as a result of student feedback or demand for certain modules. We will always ensure that you have a range of options to choose from and we will let you know in good time the options available for you to choose for the following year.

Major changes We will only make major changes to the core curriculum of a course or to our services if it is necessary for us to do so and provided such changes are reasonable. A major change in this context is a change that materially changes the services available to you; or the outcomes, or a significant part, of your course, such as the nature of the award or a substantial change to module content, teaching days (part time provision), classes, type of delivery or assessment of the core curriculum.

For example, it may be necessary to make a major change to reflect changes in the law or the requirements of the University’s regulators; to meet the latest requirements of a commissioning or accrediting body; to improve the quality of educational provision; in response to student, examiners’ or other course evaluators’ feedback; and/or to reflect academic or professional changes within subject areas. Major changes may also be

We hope you’ve found all the information you need to inspire you to become a student here at Huddersfield. Now all you need to do is apply. necessary because of circumstances outside our reasonable control, such as a key member of staff leaving the University or being unable to teach, where they have a particular specialism that can’t be adequately covered by other members of staff; or due to damage or interruption to buildings, facilities or equipment.

Major changes would usually be made with effect from the next academic year, but this may not always be the case. We will notify you as soon as possible should we need to make a major change and will carry out suitable consultation with affected students. If you reasonably believe that the proposed change will cause you detriment or hardship we will, if appropriate, work with you to try to reduce the adverse effect on you or find an appropriate solution. Where an appropriate solution cannot be found and you contact us in writing before the change takes effect you can cancel your registration and withdraw from the University without liability to the University for future tuition fees. We will provide reasonable support to assist you with transferring to another university if you wish to do so.

Termination of course

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When to apply

If this is your first (undergraduate) degree and you want to study a full-time course, then you’ll apply via the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) at ucas.com

If you want to start your course in September 2022, you can apply through UCAS any time from September 2021 onwards. Please make sure UCAS receives your application by the first application deadline in January 2022. Please see hud.ac/faa for more information.

If you’re at a college or school right now, it’s probably already registered with UCAS. The best thing to do is ask your teacher or careers adviser to help with your application. Once you’ve applied we’ll keep in touch with you throughout the application process, so you’re up to speed with what’s going on.

Our institution code is HUDDS H60.

In exceptional circumstances, we may, for reasons outside of our control, be forced to discontinue or suspend your course. Where this is the case, a formal exit strategy will be followed and we will notify you as soon as possible about what your options are, which may include transferring to a suitable replacement course for which you are qualified, being provided with individual teaching to complete the award for which you were registered, or claiming an interim award and exiting the University.

If you do not wish to take up any of the options that are made available to you, then you can cancel your registration and withdraw from the course without liability to the University for future tuition fees and you will be entitled to a refund of all course fees paid to date.

We will provide reasonable support to assist you with transferring to another university if you wish to do so.

Contact us Got a question? Get in touch with us.

Tel. +44 (0)1484 472956 Email. sbuscourseadmin@hud.ac.uk @huddersfieldbusinessschool @UoHBusinessSch

Covid-19 Some of the images in this brochure were produced before the Covid-19 pandemic, so may not reflect the social distancing and safety measures that are now in place. You can find out how we are supporting your studies and keeping our campus safe in line with Government guidelines by visiting hud.ac/covid

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The University of Huddersfield’s TEF Gold rating was awarded in June 2017.

The next TEF rating is due to be published in June 2021 (subject to government policy).

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