LPC providers compared

What do the different providers of the Legal Practice Course have to offer students?

Law School

No. of places (FT-PT)

Fees 2020/21

Exam Format

LLM?

Electives

Anglia Ruskin University

FT: 60 (CF)
PT: 60 (CF)

UK FT & PT: £10,500
International students FT & PT: £13,900

Timed open book assessment,
oral practical and coursework-style assessments

✓- new course - 60 places

• Biling, File Management and Commercial Awarness • Family Law and Practice • Employment Law and Practice • Child Care • Private Client •Commercial Dispute Resolution

Birmingham City University

FT: 100
PT: 100

FT: £9,800 (per year)
PT: £4,90 (per year)
International: £13,200

Mostly open book

✓

• Commercial Law and Practice LPC3 • Private Client •  Commercial Property •  Immigration Law •  Employment Law •  Family Law •  Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence

Bournemouth City University

FT: 60

UK FT: £12,000
International: £14,000

Partly closed book (CF)

✓

• Commercial Property • Commercial Law • Advanced Litigation • Employment Law • Family Law •  Client in the Community •  Private Client

BPP

FT: 3,300 (nationally)

FT & PT: £12,659 - £17,191 (depending on location)

Exams and assessments that
feature online, written and oral tests

✓
  • Advanced Commercial Litigation •  Advanced Commercial Property Advanced Criminal Litigation •  • Commercial Law & Intellectual Property •  Corporate Finance •  Debt Finance •  Employment Law •  Equity Finance •  Family Law • Immigration Law •  Insurance Law •  International Trade and Transactions •  Media and Entertainment Law •  Medical Negligence and Personal Injury •  Private Acquisitions •  Private Client (Wills, Probate and Estate Planning)

Bristol Law School at UWE

FT: 100 (LY)
PT: 100 (LY)

FT: £12,500
PT: £6,250 (per year)

All but one of written examinations are open book

LLM only

• Acquisitions
• Commercial Law
• Employment Law
• Family Law and Practice
• Private Client (Estate Planning)
• Public Company Finance
• Intellectual Property and Competition Law
• Advanced Criminal Litigation
• Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution
• Commercial Property
• Media and Entertainment Law
• Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence
• Public Childcare and Housing Law Practice.

Cardiff University

FT:180
PT: 40

UK FT: £14,700
International FT: £18,200

Mostly open book written examinations & supervised oral skills assessments

X

• Commercial Property  •  Emplyement Law  •  Family Law  • Intellectual Property  • Mergers and Acquisitions  • Private Client  • Commercial Litigation  •  Personal Injury

University of Central Lancaster

FT: 80
PT: 40

FT: £10,500 per year (UK + International)

Open book

LLM only

• Commercial Dispute Resolution  • Intellectual Porperty Law  • Employment Law  • Insolvency  •  Commercial Property  • Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence  •  Family Law and Practice  •  Immigration Law  •  Ederly Client Law and Practice

City Law School

FT: 176

FT: £15,050

Open book

✓

• Advanced Civil Litigation  • Commercial Dispute Resolution  •  Commercial Law  •  Employment Law  •  Equity Finance (commercial route only)  • Family Law (general practice route only)  •  Media Law  •  Mergers & Acquisitions (commercial route only)  • Private Client (general practice route only)

De Montfort University

FT: 80

FT & PT:  £10,500

Open book

X

• Child Law • Commercial Law • Commercial Litigation • Commercial Property • Employment Law • Family Law and Practice • Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence • Private Client • Sport and Media Law

ULaw Birmingham

FT: 4,750 (nationally)
PT: 2,000 (nationally)

FT & PT: £13,800

Open & closed book examinations, research assessments, written assignments & oral presentations
 

✓

• Advanced Criminal Law and Practice • Advanced Real Estate Law & Practice •  Banking and Debt Finance Law & Practice • Commercial Dispute • Resolution Law & Practice • Commercial Law & Practice • Competition Law & Practice • Employment Law & Practice • Family Law & Practice • Immigration Law & Practice • Insurance Law & Practice • Intellectual Property Law & Practice • Mergers and Acquisitions Law & Practice • Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Law & Practice • Private Client Law & Practice • Public Companies Law & Practice

ULaw Bristol

FT: 4,750 (nationally)
PT: 2,000 (nationally)

FT & PT: £13,800

Open & closed book examinations, research assessments, written assignments & oral presentations

✓

• Advanced Criminal Law and Practice • Advanced Real Estate Law & Practice •  Banking and Debt Finance Law & Practice • Commercial Dispute • Resolution Law & Practice • Commercial Law & Practice • Competition Law & Practice • Employment Law & Practice • Family Law & Practice • Immigration Law & Practice • Insurance Law & Practice • Intellectual Property Law & Practice • Mergers and Acquisitions Law & Practice • Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Law & Practice • Private Client Law & Practice • Public Companies Law & Practice

ULaw Chester

FT: 4,750 (nationally)
PT: 2,000 (nationally)

FT & PT: £12,900

Open & closed book examinations, research assessments, written assignments & oral presentations

✓

• Advanced Criminal Law and Practice • Advanced Real Estate Law & Practice •  Banking and Debt Finance Law & Practice • Commercial Dispute • Resolution Law & Practice • Commercial Law & Practice • Competition Law & Practice • Employment Law & Practice • Family Law & Practice • Immigration Law & Practice • Insurance Law & Practice • Intellectual Property Law & Practice • Mergers and Acquisitions Law & Practice • Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Law & Practice • Private Client Law & Practice • Public Companies Law & Practice

ULaw Exeter

FT: 4,750 (nationally)

PT: 2,000 (nationally)

FT & PT: £13,800

Open & closed book examinations, research assessments, written assignments & oral presentations

✓

• Advanced Criminal Law and Practice • Advanced Real Estate Law & Practice •  Banking and Debt Finance Law & Practice • Commercial Dispute • Resolution Law & Practice • Commercial Law & Practice • Competition Law & Practice • Employment Law & Practice • Family Law & Practice • Immigration Law & Practice • Insurance Law & Practice • Intellectual Property Law & Practice • Mergers and Acquisitions Law & Practice • Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Law & Practice • Private Client Law & Practice • Public Companies Law & Practice

ULaw Guildford

FT: 4,750 (nationally)
PT: 2,000 (nationally)

FT & PT: £13,800

Open & closed book examinations, research assessments, written assignments & oral presentations

✓

• Advanced Criminal Law and Practice • Advanced Real Estate Law & Practice •  Banking and Debt Finance Law & Practice • Commercial Dispute • Resolution Law & Practice • Commercial Law & Practice • Competition Law & Practice • Employment Law & Practice • Family Law & Practice • Immigration Law & Practice • Insurance Law & Practice • Intellectual Property Law & Practice • Mergers and Acquisitions Law & Practice • Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Law & Practice • Private Client Law & Practice • Public Companies Law & Practice

ULaw Leeds

FT: 4,750 (nationally)
PT: 2,000 (nationally)

FT & PT: £12,900 

Open & closed book examinations, research assessments, written assignments & oral presentations


✓

• Advanced Copyright and Design Law
• Business and Human Rights
• Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice
• Economic and Social Rights
• EU Competition Law
• EU Single Market Law
• EU Trade Law, Brexit and International Relations
• Fair Trials, Human Rights and Criminal Justice
• Global Competition Law and International Business
• Imprisonment an+F32d Human Rights
• International and Comparative Patent Law
• International and Comparative Trade Mark Law
• International Aspects of Corporate Law and Insolvency
• International Commercial+F21:J21cal Foundations of Human Rights and Criminal Justice
• Principles of Public International Law
• The Private International Law of Intellectual Property
• Public Procurement Law
• The Rights of the Child
• United Nations Law
• The World Trading System

ULaw Liverpool

FT: 4,750 (nationally)
PT: 2,000 (nationally)

FT & PT: £12,900 

Open & closed book examinations, research assessments, written assignments & oral presentations


✓

• Advanced Criminal Law and Practice • Advanced Real Estate Law & Practice •  Banking and Debt Finance Law & Practice • Commercial Dispute • Resolution Law & Practice • Commercial Law & Practice • Competition Law & Practice • Employment Law & Practice • Family Law & Practice • Immigration Law & Practice • Insurance Law & Practice • Intellectual Property Law & Practice • Mergers and Acquisitions Law & Practice • Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Law & Practice • Private Client Law & Practice • Public Companies Law & Practice

ULaw London (Bloomsbury &
Moorgate)

FT: 4,750 (nationally)
PT: 2,000 (nationally)

FT & PT: £17,500

Open & closed book examinations, research assessments, written assignments & oral presentations


✓

• Advanced Criminal Law and Practice • Advanced Real Estate Law & Practice •  Banking and Debt Finance Law & Practice • Commercial Dispute • Resolution Law & Practice • Commercial Law & Practice • Competition Law & Practice • Employment Law & Practice • Family Law & Practice • Immigration Law & Practice • Insurance Law & Practice • Intellectual Property Law & Practice • Mergers and Acquisitions Law & Practice • Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Law & Practice • Private Client Law & Practice • Public Companies Law & Practice

ULaw Manchester

FT: 4,750 (nationally)
PT: 2,000 (nationally)

FT & PT: £12,900

Open & closed book examinations,
 research assessments, written assignments & oral presentations


✓

• Advanced Criminal Law and Practice • Advanced Real Estate Law & Practice •  Banking and Debt Finance Law & Practice • Commercial Dispute • Resolution Law & Practice • Commercial Law & Practice • Competition Law & Practice • Employment Law & Practice • Family Law & Practice • Immigration Law & Practice • Insurance Law & Practice • Intellectual Property Law & Practice • Mergers and Acquisitions Law & Practice • Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Law & Practice • Private Client Law & Practice • Public Companies Law & Practice

ULaw Nottingham

FT: 4,750 (nationally)
PT: 2,000 (nationally)

FT & PT: £12,900

Open & closed book examinations,

 research assessments, written assignments & oral presentations

✓

• Advanced Criminal Law and Practice • Advanced Real Estate Law & Practice •  Banking and Debt Finance Law & Practice • Commercial Dispute • Resolution Law & Practice • Commercial Law & Practice • Competition Law & Practice • Employment Law & Practice • Family Law & Practice • Immigration Law & Practice • Insurance Law & Practice • Intellectual Property Law & Practice • Mergers and Acquisitions Law & Practice • Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Law & Practice • Private Client Law & Practice • Public Companies Law & Practice

ULaw Reading

FT: 4,750 (nationally)

PT: 2,000 (nationally)

FT & PT: £13,800

Open & closed book examinations, research assessments, written assignments & oral presentations


✓

• Advanced Criminal Law and Practice • Advanced Real Estate Law & Practice •  Banking and Debt Finance Law & Practice • Commercial Dispute • Resolution Law & Practice • Commercial Law & Practice • Competition Law & Practice • Employment Law & Practice • Family Law & Practice • Immigration Law & Practice • Insurance Law & Practice • Intellectual Property Law & Practice • Mergers and Acquisitions Law & Practice • Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Law & Practice • Private Client Law & Practice • Public Companies Law & Practice

Leeds Beckett University

FT: 105

FT: £11,250

Mostly open book


✓

• Commercial Leases • Commercial Dispute Resolution • Private Acquisitions • Family Law & Practice • Commercial Law & Practice • Personal Injury & Clinical• Negligence Litigation • Mental Health Law • Employment Law & Practice

Liverpool John Moores
University

FT: 72
PT: 72

FT: £10,700
PT: £5,350
International: £12,600

Mostly open book


✓

• Advanced criminal litigation law and practice • Advanced personal injury law and practice • Commercial property law and practice • Employment law and practice • Family law and practice • General commercial law and practice • Housing law and practice • Private client law and practice • Dissertation

London Metropolitan University

FT: 32
PT: 64

PT: £5,750
FT: £11,500
International: £11,500 

Assessment include skills assessments and open book examinations


✓

• Advanced Business Law and Practice • Child Law and Practice • Civil and Commercial • Mediation and Alternative • Dispute Resolution • Commercial Law and Practice • Corporate Law and Practice • Employment Law and Practice • Family Law and Practice • Housing Law and Practice • Immigration Law and Practice • Intellectual Property Law and Practice • Private Client Law and Practice

Manchester Metropolitan
University

FT: 88
PT: 66

FT: £11,500
PT: £1,917 (per 30 credits)
International FT: £11,500
International PT: £1,917 (per 30 credits)

9% coursework; 0% practical; 91% examination


 
✓

• Advanced Criminal Litigation • Commercial Law • Commercial Litigation • Commercial Property • Corporate Practice • Employment Law and Practice • Family Law and Practice • Immigration Law • Personal Injury Litigation • Wills, Probate and Estate Planning

Northumbria University

FT: 100
PT: 50

FT & PT: £12,600
 


Open and closed book

✓
  • Child Care • Employment Law •  Family Law • Intellectual Property •  Law and the Elderly Client •  Student Law Office •  Mental Health •  Commercial Law • Sales and Aquisitons • Corporate Debt and Restructuring

Nottingham Law School

Variable

FT: £11,950

Open book


LLM only

• Advanced Copyright and Design Law
• Business and Human Rights
• Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice
• Economic and Social Rights
• EU Competition Law
• EU Single Market Law
• EU Trade Law, Brexit and International Relations
• Fair Trials, Human Rights and Criminal Justice
• Global Competition Law and International Business
• Imprisonment and Human Rights
• International and Comparative Patent Law
• International and Comparative Trade Mark Law
• International Aspects of Corporate Law and Insolvency
• International Commercial Arbitration
• International Criminal Evidence
• International Criminal Law
• International Human Rights Law
• International Humanitarian Law
• International Investment Law
• International Law of the Sea
• International Law on the Use of Force
• International Sale of Goods
• Law, Development and the International Community
• Law of International Trade Finance
• Minorities and International Human Rights Law
• Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights and Criminal Justice
• Principles of Public International Law
• The Private International Law of Intellectual Property
• Public Procurement Law
• The Rights of the Child
• United Nations Law
• The World Trading System

University of Sheffield

FT: 180
PT: 36

UK FT: £12,900


Both open and closed book & dissertation


✓

• Acquisitions and Mergers • Advanced Commercial Litigation • Corporate Finance • Commercial Property • Commercial Law • Family Law • Employment Law • Advanced Criminal Litigation • Private Client • Personal Injury Litigation

University of South Wales

FT: 30
PT: 30

FT UK: £11,350
FT International: £14,300

Written and practical skills assessments


✓

• Family Law and Practice • Employment Law and Practice • Commercial Property • Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Litigation • Advanced Business and Corporate Law and Practice • Wills and Estate Planning • Advanced Criminal Litigation

Staffordshire University

FT: 150

 FT: Not known


 
Mostly open book

✓

• Corporate and Commercial Client • Commercial Property • Employment Law • Family Law • Advanced Criminal Practice • Private Client

University of Sunderland

FT: 52
PT: 52

FT: £9,750

Open book

LLM only

• Commercial Contracts • Family Law & Practice

Swansea University

FT: 140

FT: £ 12,300
PT: £5,950
International FT: £14,400

Written examinations, written assessments and live skills assessments (advocacy and interviewing). Mostly open book


 
✓

• Commercial Dispute Resolution • Family and Child Law and Practice • Advanced Commercial Law • Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence • Buisness Leases • Employment Law and Practice • Advanced Criminal Practice

University of West London

FTE: 60

FT: £13,500
PT: £6,750

Mostly open book

✓

• Advanced Litigation (Personal Injury) •  Commercial Leases • Employment Law and Practice • Family Law and Practice • Housing and Residential Landlord and Tenant Law • Immigration Law and Practice

University of Westminster

FT: 120
PT: 64

UK: £14,500
International: £15,000

Mostly open book


✓

• Family Law • Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence • Immigration Law • Housing Law • Employment Law • Commercial Litigation • Private Acquisitions • Entertainment and Media • Commercial Property • Commercial Law

University of Wolverhampton

FT: 60
PT: 30

UK FT: £10,900
UK PT: £5,450
International FT: £13,950


Both open and closed book


✓- same amount of places as LPC
  • Commercial Law • Commercial Property Law • Employment Law and Practice • Family Law and Practice • Housing Law and Practice• Immigration and Welfare Law • Insolvency Law and Practice • Personal Injury Litigation