Graduate Diploma in Law/CPE

Legal Systems, Skills, and Research: You will be introduced to the UK Legal Systems, Legal Skills, and Legal Research Methods. This unit will also allow you to undertake facilitated research on an area of law not covered elsewhere in the program and include some coverage of administrative law.

Law of Obligations 1: This unit will provide knowledge of the constituent elements of contract law and the relevant principles to evaluate and apply them critically. You will conduct effective research, state the law, and use it coherently, relying upon appropriate sources and employing legal reasoning.

Constitutional and EU Law: You will be introduced to the fundamental principles of the UK constitution and the past and future relationship with the European Union as a source of domestic law. This unit aims to provide you with the ability to understand and demonstrate knowledge of constitutional law and aspects of EU law and apply that knowledge to various legal scenarios.

Law of Obligations 2: This unit aims to provide an academically challenging examination of the issues in the Law of Torts and an introduction to the Law of Restitution and to develop your ability to apply the fundamental principles of these areas of Law to a wide range of situations.

Law of Trusts and Estates: Equitable interests and trusts provide a dynamic source of private law rights, obligations, and remedies. Recognized as the most important of equity's creations, the trust concept is used prolifically in pensions, tax, commerce, and asset protection, both inter vivos and testamentary. This unit aims to provide the knowledge and understanding necessary for recognizing, creating, and administering express and implied trusts.

Property law: You will gain an overview of the legal classifications and concepts of property and specifically examine the private law relating to rights, estates, and interests in land in England and Wales. Upon completion, you'll be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the difference between real and personal property, basic principles of the law of equity, nature of rights, estates, and interests in land/ real property and how they are created, protected, and defended and the relationship between the law of real property and other areas of law. 

Human Rights Law: The unit contributes to your understanding of the relationship between politics and law. It also provides knowledge of an area of UK law that is pervasive—sharpening your understanding of the continuing importance of the common law and expanding your awareness of the international influences on the development of UK law. It deals with significant areas of overlap between law and politics, and morality.

Criminal Law: You will study the core legal principles of criminal liability relating to a range of criminal offenses, the substantive law of the major crimes against the person and property, and the partial and general defenses. Given the nature of illegal practice and the immediacy of legal advice required in the early stages of investigation and prosecution, understanding the broad foundations of criminal liability is essential.