The first term concentrates on introductory skills such as legal research, as well as ensuring that students have basic general skills such as an ability to use information technology. This unit consists of elements of Land Law, looking at the ways in which property is affected by law. This unit continues and covers specific legal practice skills such as negotiating and client interviewing. This unit looks at constitutional institutions, issues of parliamentary and administrative practice. The relationship between the legislature and the EC is further examined.
Students choose to enter one of four vocational streams.
Each of these runs for two years until the end of the degree course as a whole. These continue in the same general area. Although there is a weighting towards written examinations a variety of assessment methods are used on the course including oral presentations, written projects and assignments giving students as great an opportunity as possible of displaying their abilities.