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Looking for a law conversion course in Birmingham? Our Postgraduate Diploma in Law is open to graduates from all subjects.
The PGDL is an ideal stepping stone into either a full-time law career or advanced legal study. If you do not have an LLB Law degree awarded by a university of England and Wales, completing this course enables you to go on to professional training as a barrister or a solicitor.
LLM Professional Law
If you are interested in achieving your PGDL before going on to a full Masters level qualification, our LLM Professional Law course will allow you do to both. Our LLM course could also potentially qualify you for postgraduate funding.
Upon completion of the PGDL, you are eligible to undertake the Bar Professional Training Course if you want to qualify as a barrister,
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Minimum Second Class UK degree or international equivalent in any subject area.
Applications from international applicants with equivalent qualifications are welcome. Please see your country page for further details on the equivalent qualifications we accept.
In additional to the academic entry requirements listed above, international and EU students will also require the qualifications detailed in this table.
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After completing the Common Professional Qualification (CPE) - now known as the Graduate Diploma in Law - in 1993, Julian B. Knowles has built a distinguished career as a barrister specialising in criminal law and human rights law.
Julian was inspired to pursue a legal career after becoming interested in law and human rights law during his undergraduate degree, seeing it as an opportunity to really make a difference. Making the move to London after graduation, he spent a year at the Inns Court School of Law and went on to spend time as a pupil barrister, before commencing practice in 1995.
Making his mark early, he won his first House of Lords case after being in practice for less than a year. No stranger to working on cases attracting global media attention, he went on to successfully defend General Pinochet and Siôn Jenkins, and he is also part of a team of counsel that has fought against the death penalty around the world.
In 2011 he was appointed as a QC, the youngest criminal practitioner in his year to be promoted.
"The CPE was a super-intensive course and so I did little other than study. It was just the beginning though, and I continue to learn something new every day."
"I have worked on cases which I hope have made a real difference to people. I have also met some amazing people - both clients and other barristers."
Julian Knowles, Queen's Counsel, Matrix Chambers
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