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Graduate Diploma in Law

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Overview

Our well-regarded ‘conversion’ course allows non-law graduates who wish to become solicitors or barristers gain the skills and knowledge they need to progress. The Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) is suitable both for recent graduates as well as more experienced graduates.

The GDL is the route to professional legal qualification for you if you already have an honours degree in another discipline. It is taught full time over one academic year, September to June (or part time over two) and provides you with the legal Foundations required by the professional bodies for entry onto their vocational stage of training. The diploma is also highly regarded in other law-related career fields.

+Course details

The content of the course is largely laid down by the Bar Standards Board and the Solicitors' Regulation Authority, and is the same for full-time and part-time students.

We will send you a list of the books we would like you to read before you begin the course.

You will begin your formal study with Legal Sources and Institutions, which you will take during your induction programme.

You will then study the seven foundations of legal knowledge subjects, together with Legal Research Methods and one additional legal subject from among the options offered to our final-year LLB students.