Becoming a Lawyer in England- Diventare Avvocato in Inghilterra

There are three key stages to becoming a lawyer in England and Wales:

1. Academic stage: this can be met by obtaining a qualifying law degree as your first degree (any of our routes on the undergraduate LLB programme will fulfil this), or if you have a first degree in a different subject, by taking either the CPE/Graduate Diploma in Law, see this website for all the information about the universities who do it, or the two year Graduate LLB .

2. Vocational stage : once you have satisfied the academic requirements, you need to undertake a programme which provides the required legal skills training. This is met by taking the Bar Vocational Course for intending barristers, or the Legal Practice Course for intending solicitors.

3. Vocational stage : in order to be registered as a fully qualified barrister or solicitor, a further stage of training in practice is required. For barristers, this involves twelve months of pupillage, while for solicitors a two year training contract must be undertaken.

Useful links for more information:

The Bar Standards Board’s website for information about careers and pupillages.

The Bar Council’s website for wider information about the Bar.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority website for information on becoming a solicitor.

The Law Society’s website for wider information about the Society.

The Institutions listed alphabetically below will be offering full-time attendance CPE/Graduate Diploma in Law Courses in 2008-09.

<!– –> University of Birmingham 50 http://www.law.bham.ac.uk/ Helen Lewis GDLS@contacts.bham.ac.uk Birmingham City University 50 http://www.lhss.bcu.ac.uk/ Margaret Arrand Margaret.Arrand@bcu.ac.uk Bournemouth University 60 http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/fal/ Steevie Watson watsons@bournemouth.ac.uk BPP Law School (centres in London, Leeds, Manchester) 1184 http://www.bpp.com/ The Admissions Department lawadmissions@bpp.com Brunel University 30 http://www.brunel.ac.uk/courses/pg/ cdata/c/cpe-graduate+diploma+in+law/ Jenny King j.king@brunel.ac.uk City University 190 http://www.city.ac.uk/ Dan Wilsher cpe@city.ac.uk The College of Law (centres in Birmingham, Chester, Guildford, London, York) 1600 http://www.college-of-law.co.uk/?campaign=cabgdl Admissions Admissions@lawcol.co.uk De Montfort University 40 http://www.dmu.ac.uk/ Kerrie Deakin kdeakin@dmu.ac.uk University of East Anglia 40 http://www.uea.ac.uk/law Vicky Hawkes victoria.hawkes@uea.ac.uk University of East London 40 http://www.uel.ac.uk/law/ Elizabeth Stokes E.Stokes@uel.ac.uk University of Glamorgan 40 http://www.glam.ac.uk/ Rhian Morgan mailto:lrmorgan5@glam.ac.uk University of Hertfordshire 30 http://www.herts.ac.uk/law Admissions Lawschooladmissions@herts.ac.uk Holborn College 40 http://www.flexible-learning.co.uk/ Flexible Learning Department flenq@holborncollege.ac.uk University of Huddersfield 30 http://www.hud.ac.uk/schools/hubs Melanie Fellowes m.g.fellowes@hud.ac.uk University of Keele 20 http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/la/ Eileen Farne e.farne@law.keele.ac.uk Kingston University 50 http://www.kingston.ac.uk/ Jack Thompson jack.thompson@kingston.ac.uk University of Central Lancashire 40 http://www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/ class/legalstu/index.htm Jane Anthony jcanthony@uclan.ac.uk University of Lincoln 30 http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/ Alan Whittle awhittle@lincoln.ac.uk Leeds Metropolitan University 52 http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/ Vicky Thirlaway v.thirlaway@leedsmet.ac.uk London Metropolitan University 150 http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/ Barrie Goldstone goldston@londonmet.ac.uk Manchester Metropolitan University 70 http://www.law.mmu.ac.uk/ Catherine Higgins c.higgins@mmu.ac.uk Middlesex University 40 http://mubs.mdx.ac.uk/ Susan Scott-Hunt S.Scott-Hunt@mdx.ac.uk University of North London 55 http://www.unl.ac.uk Mark Sutters m.sutters@unl.ac.uk University of Northumbria at Newcastle 80 http://law.unn.ac.uk/ Linda Templeton-Elms l.templeton-elms@unn.ac.uk Nottingham Law School (centres in Nottingham and, with Kaplan Law School, in London) 400 http://www.nottingham-kaplan.org.uk/ <!– London David Napier admissions @kaplanlawschool.org.uk Nottingham David Gazely david.gazely@ntu.ac.ukNottingham-Kaplan Admissions@ntu.ac.uk –> Oxford Brookes University 125 http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/social/ Jane Salisbury cpe@brookes.ac.uk University of Plymouth 45 http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/ Admissions Ssb.pgadmissions@plymouth.ac.uk South Bank University 35 http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/ahslaw John Koo mailto:kooj@sbu.ac.uk Southampton Solent University 30 http://www.solent.ac.uk/sbs Christine Johnson Christine.Johnson@solent.ac.uk Staffordshire University 40 http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/law/welcome.html Chris Culverwell c.culverwell@staffs.ac.uk University of Sussex 40 http://www.sussex.ac.uk/law/ Paul Omar paulo@sussex.ac.uk Thames Valley University 40 http://www.tvu.ac.uk/ Ganesan Ariaratnam Ganesan.Ariaratnam@tvu.ac.uk Swansea University 50 http://www.swansea.ac.uk/law Karen Davies karen.davies@swansea.ac.uk University of the West of England, Bristol 120 http://www.uwe.ac.uk/ Emma Phillimore Emma.Phillimore@uwe.ac.uk University of Westminster 100 http://www.wmin.ac.uk/law/ Miles Macleod/Margaret Harrington lpcadmin@wmin.ac.uk University of Wolverhampton 30 http://www.wlv.ac.uk/ Ben Hough B.Hough2@wlv.ac.uk

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