LLB (Hons) (Full Time)

Gain a thorough grounding in law on a course that prepares graduates for a wide range of rewarding careers in the legal profession and related careers. This course may be taken over a period of six years for those who prefer a flexible route.

Course overview

The LLB (Hons) Law at Southampton Solent University is a challenging and enjoyable course incorporating a Qualifying Law Degree which includes the foundation law subjects enabling students, satisfying the professional regulations, to progress directly to the vocational stage of training to become a solicitor or barrister. The course is designed for students to plan their chosen path in Law and related areas in Criminology, Social Law, or Commercial Law. Therefore, the LLB (Hons) is designed for students who may obtain a Qualifying Law Degree as well as those students who pursue another career path.

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Throughout the course, students learn areas of law and also how to develop and apply the law. This includes a range of legal skills: analysis, research, problem solving, legal literacy, and oral expression. The lectures are supported by work in small groups in which students actively participate to enhance their learning and understanding.

Industrial focus

Law staff have valuable experience in practicing and teaching law and ensure the course is contemporary and relevant to the needs of the professions and employers.

Course content

Year 1

Six core units:

• Legal Systems and Methods
• Constitutional Law
• Criminal Law
• Law of Contract
• Legal research and literacy skills
• Aspects of Law and Practice.

Year 2

Three core modules and three option units:

• EU Law
• Law of Tort
• Administrative Law and Human rights.

Options:

• Commercial Law
        - Law of Intellectual Property
        - Employment Law
        - Aspects of International Law
        - Sports Law
• Social Law:
  

        - Medical Law 
        - Family Law

• Criminology:
        - Criminology and the Criminal Justice Process 
        - Criminology: Theory and Practice
• Curriculum Plus.

Year 3

Three core units and three option units:

• Equity and Trusts 
• Land Law 
• Property Law.

Options:

• Commercial Law:
     -  Media Law
     -  Equality Law 
     -  Company Law  
     -  Commercial Law
     -  Commercial Crime
• Social Law:
     -  Mental Health Law
     -  Child Law
     -  Law of Evidence.
• Criminology:
     -  Mischief and Miscarriage in the Criminal Justice Process   
     -  Policing and Social Control
     -  Sentencing Law 
• Curriculum Plus.

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Why choose this course?

• A Qualifying Law Degree recognized by the Solicitors’ Regulatory Authority and the Bar Standards Board allowing, on successful completion, entry on to the Legal Practice Course for intending solicitors, or the Bar Professional Training Course for intending barristers.
• Clear career paths in law related areas: Criminology; Social Law; Commercial Law.
• Career development and planning is embedded throughout the course.
• A lively interactive learning experience with mooting, legal exercises, and strong support and guidance throughout for students to enhance learning.

Assessment

The course is assessed in a variety of ways including written assignments, oral presentations, problem-solving, mooting, legal exercises, group work, individual projects, and examinations.

Key career skills

Problem solving, analysis, research, working as an individual and in teams, effective presentation, and communication skills.

Recent projects/work experience

Students have taken an active role in mooting and this has become so popular a unit has been included in Year 1 to enable all students to benefit from this activity which promotes legal research, legal argument, and legal literacy. External lawyers are invited to judge the moots and students are able to participate in mooting competitions.

Dissertations are a particularly strong feature of the course and students are able to pursue a topic of their own choice. Recent areas include Sports Law, Medical Law, Commercial law, Criminal Law and law related to Intellectual Property.

Graduate profile

Steph Esther Mekwuye

“On the LLB course your ability to research is a core skill; I knew how to find relevant cases, legislations, news, journals and how to use the information for my assessments. I learnt to compile presentations in no time, I would brace myself and stand behind a podium to present to over 100 people. Since helping others comes quite naturally to me, this job was just right.

“During my studies I decided I wanted to create a student forum, a place where law students could exchange ideas and debate different points of view, so I founded the Debating Society in my second year. Students were able to come together and chat about anything from Facebook antics to intellectual property rights to religion!

“I also became a member of the Justice Student Network and attended their conferences in London. I remember returning home after these gatherings with a buzz and a sense of achievement and I was over the moon when Roger Smith, Director of Justice, accepted my invitation to visit our university.

"Studying law has been fulfilling and I am now a very happy LLB Law graduate!”