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Opleiding: Graduate Diploma in Law

Learning purpose

The intensive Graduate Diploma in Law course provides an excellent opportunity for non-law graduates to complete the academic stage of legal professional training. It is approved by the Law Society and the Bar Council through the Joint Academic Stage Board. Successful completion carries the award of Graduate Diploma in Law and leads to the professional stage of legal training via the Legal Practice Course or the Bar Vocational Course.

 

We have been teaching the part-time Graduate Diploma in Law by distance learning for more than 20 years: it is taught online, with web support, and can be completed in 2 years.

 

 

Programme

Comprehensive learning materials, authored by Middlesex staff and available both in hard-copy and on-line, are complemented by a state-of-the-art suite of electronic legal research tools and modern Learning Resource Centre. Students tackle the seven foundations of legal knowledge and choose either a supervised research project or a module on the Principles of a Fair Trial. There are multiple and continuous opportunities for students to submit and receive prompt individual feedback, example answers and general advice, on formative written execises and practice examinations. In weekly tutorial sessions, full-time students work through legal problem questions with the emphasis on maximum interaction. Distance learners have regular opportunities to participate in non-simultaneous on-line notice board tutorials.

 

Your individual progress is closely monitored by the programme team and extra support is available to those returning to academic life after an absence or those for whom English is a second language.

 

Before Induction, students receive preliminary Directed Study materials on the English Legal System.

 

The programme structure is as follows

 

Full-time

Semester One

• Constitutional Law
• EU Law
• Criminal Law
• Contract Law

Semester Two

• Tort
• Equity and Trusts
• Land Law
• One additional subject

Part-time distance learning

Year One

• Constitutional Law
• Contract Law
• Criminal Law
• EU Law

Year Two

• Tort
• Equity and Trusts
• Land Law
• One additional subject.

 

 

Entry Requirements

Entry is open to UK law and non-law honours graduates with a minimum 2.2 honours degree, but we also consider further academic qualifications, legal and business experience and strength in writing. If you have an overseas degree or are seeking mature non-graduate student status, you are also eligible for the programme provided that before you start the CPE course you have obtained a Certificate of Academic Standing from the professional bodies. We also require IELTS 7.0 if your first degree was not taught in English.

English language requirements

You must have competence in English language and we normally require Grade C GCSE or an equivalent qualification. The most common English Language requirements for international students are IELTS 6.5 or TOEFL (paper based) 575 or TOEFL (internet based) 90 with specified minimum scores for each component.

 

 

Professional perspective and employment market

Many students embarking on a law degree will be considering a career as a solicitor or barrister after they graduate. Additionally, there are also many other career opportunities for law graduates to purse as a law degree develops skills highly sought-after in business, management and administration.

 

Following a Graduate Diploma in Law (CPE) degree you may consider

• The option of studying a PhD
• Academia In-house lawyers
• A wide range of jobs in the public and private sector.

Where do our graduates go?
Based on data from the respondents of the 2007 Destination of Leavers in Higher Education survey, six months after graduating

• 75% of MiddlesexGDL graduateswere in employment
• 25% were doing further studies

 

 

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