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Full time & Part time September PGDip, LLM 1 year full-time
Law (22)

About the course

Maximise your chances of securing pupillage by building your legal knowledge and skills side by side. You'll embed your understanding through regular application of your knowledge to scenarios you are likely to experience when advising clients or in court.

By undertaking and successfully completing the UWE Bristol Bar Training Course (BTC), you will develop, and be able to demonstrate, the competencies required to be called to the Bar, as set out by the Bar Standards Board (BSB).

On the BTC course, you will build your legal knowledge and skills side by side, to embed your learning and maximise your chances of doing well on the course, and securing pupillage.

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Entry Requirements

As stipulated by the BSB, you will need:

To hold a law degree/conversion course, which meets the requirements for study of the foundations of legal knowledge subjects
A degree classification (minimum 2:2)
Membership of an Inn of Court

All students applying for a place on the UWE Bristol BTC course will be considered for an offer according to the extent that their application form demonstrates:

The potential to fulfil the BSB Professional Statement Competences
A commitment to a career at the Bar/in law
A record of legal work experience or other law related activity during their studies


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Where will I study?

Where is UWE Bristol (University of the West of England)

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Our Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship is available to UWE Bristol alumni and provides a tuition fee discount of 50% on full-time and part-time postgraduate courses.


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