Legal Practice Course LPC (Full-time, Part-time)

Course overview

The purpose of the Legal Practice Course (LPC) is to equip you with the skills and knowledge necessary to enable you to enter your training contract with confidence and to feel at home in the exciting, demanding and rewarding world of legal practice.

BU has successfully delivered the LPC since 1994. We are recognised by employers and students as a popular provider of high-quality professional legal education and training.

The course offers you the opportunity to study the course with us in one year full-time, or over two years part-time. To be awarded the LPC, you must successfully complete Stage One and three Stage Two.

Both the full-time and part-time delivery patterns embed the strengths and unique features of the Bournemouth LPC:

• Small group sizes with consequent high level of interaction with tutors
• A broadly based LPC, delivering an all round knowledge of the core areas of legal practice together with the necessary skills to prepare for work based learning
• A range of electives covering a range of ‘high street’ as well as more commercially based areas of work
• A high level of face-to-face learning and teaching and an emphasis on interaction between students and staff
• Interaction with professionally qualified staff in a realistic practice context

Stage One takes place between September and March/April each year. Part-time students will study units in the same classes as the full-time students, but you will only attend for 2-3 days each week, allowing you to fit your other commitments around your studies.

Stage Two elective subjects are taught between April and July each year.

Please note, before you start your LPC, you will need to:

• enrol as a student with the SRA, and
• obtain written confirmation that you have completed the academic stage of training.

Until you have done both, you will not be able to start the LPC or enter into a training contract.

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