Our professional legal practice preparation courses are designed for law graduates or those who have completed a Principles of Law PGCert or similar course.
Choose to study the Understanding Legal Principles PGDip or undertake the Professional Legal Practice LLM course, which includes an additional Case Study Project and results in a master’s level qualification on successful completion.
On completion of the course, you are required to arrange and take the applicable examination with the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) if you wish to become a solicitor, or with CILEX if you wish to become a CILEX lawyer and pay the associated fee (see section exemptions for more information).
The course is designed to prepare you to sit the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) Part 1 and (if you complete Professional Legal Practice LLM) Part 2 . This is not embedded in the course. You will have to sit the exam independently and directly with the SRA.
The course is also designed to prepare you to sit the CILEX lawyer professional examinations (CPQ) , which is not embedded in the course. You will have to sit the exam independently and directly with CILEX.
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Coventry Law School is a member of the International Association of Law Schools, an association of around 160 law schools from over 55 countries, representing around 7,500 law faculty members. Having this status allows you to access a variety of international experiences, including with our partner institutions across the world.
Coventry Law School is currently a member of the European Law Faculties Association with over 250 members from Europe and beyond.
These memberships are renewed annually and there is currently no intentions for these memberships to lapse. However if our membership is not renewed for any reason, we would notify applicants and students as soon as possible.
Coventry Law School collaborates with the Central England Law Centre in order to offer a powerful professional element to your learning, through our Law Employment and Advocacy clinics. Students who participate in the clinics get involved with everything that the solicitors do at the Law Centre with supervisors who are currently working in practice and experts in specific areas of law. They get hands-on-experience doing reserved legal activities, providing supervised advice and assistance to members of the public.
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Typical entry requirements:
A UK law degree (minimum 2:2), the Graduate Diploma in Law (or equivalent law conversion course) or a PGCert Principles of Law from Coventry University.
Alternative qualifications or work experience will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
We recognise a breadth of qualifications; speak to one of our advisers today to find out how we can help you.
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You can view our full list of country specific entry requirements on our Entry requirements page.
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A UK law degree (minimum 2:2), the Graduate Diploma in Law (or equivalent law conversion course) or a PGCert Principles of Law from Coventry University.
Alternative qualifications or work experience will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
If you don't meet the English language requirements, you can achieve the level you need by successfully completing a pre-sessional English programme before you start your course. For more information on our approved English language tests visit our English language requirements page .