LL.B. (Hons) LLB

Course Content Year 1 Core Units

• Contract Law

This unit aims to equip you with the knowledge and understanding of the main principles and concepts underpinning contract law. It will also help you develop the skills of legal research, application and problem solving enabling you to apply your knowledge to realistic scenarios in order to provide arguable conclusions to legal problems. Topics studied include: the formation of contracts, contractual terms, factors which would render a contract unenforceable, and discharge of a contract and remedies.

• Law and Society

This unit introduces you to the wider context in which the law operates and will help you develop critical perspectives on the relationship of law to society. The unit includes theories which underpin the nature and enforcement of law; an examination of the place of morality within the law with reference to social context; and critical perspectives on foundation of legal knowledge subjects.

• Public Law

Public law is the study of the institutions of government and the legal and quasi-legal mechanisms that determine how those institutions operate. It includes basic principles of constitutional law; features of the United Kingdom’s constitution; the interactions between the UK, the EU and the ECHR; aspects of the protection of civil liberties in The United Kingdom; and judicial review of administrative action.

• Tort Law

This unit considers the nature and functions of the law of torts and the legal principles governing liability. It includes general principles of the tort of negligence and associated defences; specific aspects of negligence, including liability for psychiatric harm, economic loss and occupiers’ liability; and trespass to the person.

Year 2 Core Units

• Criminal Law

This unit examines the principles of Criminal Law, together with a range of offences and defences. This unit aims to equip you with knowledge and understanding of the main principles and concepts underpinning Criminal Law. It will cover a number of offences including homicides, assaults, theft and fraud, sexual offences and so on.

• Land Law

This unit considers the legal principles that underpin land and property law. The unit aims to equip you with knowledge and understanding of land law principles in order to analyse a factual scenario and provide advice to a notional client.

• Law of the European Union

The first part of the course will focus on the constitutional and administrative law of the EU. The second part of the course will cover areas of European Union substantive law inlcuding Constitutional and Administrative Law of the EU Introduction; History and Development of the European Union and its place in the international system; and Law and the General Principles of EU law Dual Vigilance.Option Units

• Business Law

This unit will examine the principles and concepts underpinning choice of business media. In addition to enhancing your knowledge, you will develop your presentation and legal drafting skills as well as your commercial awareness; choice of business medium- legal structures, formation, ownership, management, finance and funding, taxation, dissolution/winding up. Trading and commercial contracts. Personal and business insolvency.The legal doctrinal content focuses largely on key statutory provisions.

• Consumer Law

This unit examines the various aspects of consumer law and requires students to critically evaluate the effectiveness of these in providing adequate protection to consumers. The unit aims to equip you with knowledge and understanding of the main principles and concepts underpinning consumer law.

• Employment Law

The unit examines the role of the law in regulating the employment relationship. It covers both individual and collective employment rights and also the duties and obligations of employers and employees. It includes employment law sources and institutions of employment law; the employment relationship & employment status; and the contract of employment -sources of terms and conditions.

• Human Rights Law

This unit examines the development and operation of international, regional and domestic frameworks and mechanisms for the promotion and protection of human rights. The unit aims to equip you with knowledge and understanding of the main legal principles and concepts of human rights law; with an understanding of the global political, historical, social and cultural contexts which generate these.

• Immigration law

Immigration law is the law which decides who may legally enter the United Kingdom to work, to join family members, to study or to seek asylum. This unit will also cover some of the sociological and economic forces which affect immigration law.

• International Law

This unit examines the laws and principles that govern the rights and obligations of states and how state practice and International institutions shape these laws. It includes an introduction to public international law; sources of international law; territory in International law; recognition of states and governments; jurisdiction in international law; and state responsibility.

Year 3 Core Units

• Equity and trusts

The unit explores equity's jurisdiction and the jurisdiction of the chancery courts. Content is largely doctrinal but theoretical content is introduced. The nature of equity, the trust concept, certainty, constitution of trusts and formalities, purpose trusts, charitable trusts, implied trusts, undue influence, secret trusts, trustees' powers, duties and functions tracing, variation of trusts.

Option Units

• Company Law in a Global Context

The unit charts the rise of the corporation, looking at capitalism, globalisation and responsible governance. Domestic company law is scrutinised in detail. Content is both theoretical and doctrinal. Theoretical content includes: introduction to capitalism, corporation power in the UK and the US, corporate social responsibility, globalisation. Doctrinal content covers incorporation, directors, shareholders, finance and liquidation.

The legal doctrinal content focuses in detail on case law and how the courts have interpreted provisions in the companies legislation, primarily at the appellate level.

• Criminology

The unit covers topics such as the development of criminology as an academic discipline, crime as a contested concept, statistical sources on crime measurement, research methods in criminology, theories of crime: positivism, deviancy theory, critical criminology, realism, gender and crime, race, ethnicity and crime, victimology and victimisation, support for victims, rape in the criminal justice system, difference and crime, hate crime.

• Dissertation

This unit allows you to carry out detailed research on a topic of their own choice and undertake an extended piece of legal writing. It aims to give you the opportunity to acquire detailed knowledge of a specific area of law and carry out an in depth piece of criticism and evaluation of the topic you have chosen to study. The unit will commence with the creation of a research proposal and work timetable.

• Family Law

Family law is concerned with the study of adults and children in familial situations. Emphasis is on understanding the broader social context in which this law operates. It includes an examination of the range and history concerning adult familial relationships – Marriage, Civil Partnership and Cohabitation. Exploration of the process of family breakdown including divorce, dissolution and cohabitee disputes.

• Intellectual Property and Media Law

This unit examines the law and policies relevant to media activities and content, including how businesses can protect and exploit intellectual property. You will begin by developing an overview of how the media industries are regulated through the law and regulatory codes. Specific topics will include the regulation of media content through defamation law, privacy and confidentiality law and the relationship between journalists and their sources. You will then consider how intellectual property allows businesses to exploit and protect content through an examination of copyright law and trade marks and passing off. In order to consolidate this learning you will then look at the application of intellectual property law within specifc media industries such as the music industry and merchandising.

• Law of Evidence

This unit examines the rules of evidence and their application in determining how criminal and civil proceedings are conducted in a court of law. It includes introduction and rules of evidence; rules of evidence & types of evidence; burden & standard of proof; proof of facts without evidence; identification evidence/ warnings; and the trial process.

• Legal Practice

This skills-based unit aims to equip you with knowledge and understanding of procedural, practical and ethical issues involved in providing legal advice. It aims to equip you with knowledge and understanding of procedural, practical and ethical issues involved in providing legal advice. It includes the development of client interviewing skills, legal writing and practical legal research.

• Medical Law and Ethics

This unit examines the legal and ethical principles relevant to medical practice and provides the tools for constructing legal and ethical responses to medical dilemmas.It aims to equip you with the knowledge and understanding of the legal and ethical issues surrounding medical issues and to develop the skills of legal research including case and legislation analysis ,application of law and ethics to real life scenarios,evaluation of legal and ethical principles and how to apply them in practical situations.

• Mooting

This unit aims to enable you to master with the essential elements of mooting. This involves appearing in a mock or simulated version of a case in one of the English/Welsh appellate courts. You will tackle three moot problems. One of these will be a practice moot, the other two will be assessed oral moots.

• Succession

This unit aims to equip you with knowledge and understanding of the main principles and concepts underpinning the law of succession.The unit aims to equip you with knowledge and understanding of these principles in order to analyse a factual scenario and advise a notional clien