LLM Professional Practice (SQE)

The LLM Professional Practice with a Solicitors Qualification Examination (SQE) pathway offers you the opportunity to prepare for SQE1, obtain an introduction to SQE2 legal skills and acquire some Qualifying Work Experience (QWE). In the process, you will gain an internationally recognised LLM qualification.Law and non-law graduates who want to qualify as solicitors in England and Wales. You will prepare for your SQE exams while gaining practical legal skills.

Students must achieve an undergraduate degree of class 2:2 or above and will then be placed into either the law graduate or non-law graduate stream. For the law graduate stream, students must have a LLB (Hons) degree, a Common Professional Examination/Graduate Diploma in Law, or a combined studies degree including the foundation law subjects. Students who have reached the appropriate level of qualification with the Institute of Legal Executives are also eligible for consideration for admission to the law graduate stream. For the non-law graduate stream, students must achieve an undergraduate degree with a classification of 2:2 or above in any subject. All applications for the full-time LLM Legal Practice (SQE) must be made online via the Central Applications Board at www.lawcabs.ac.uk. Applications for the part-time LLM Legal Practice (SQE) can be made using our online application form.