LLB (Hons) Law with Integrated Foundation Year

Skills and Scholarship

This module provides you with opportunity to develop your academic and employability skills needed to study and work within Law. You will develop your awareness of how cases and legislation are used to enhance your academic writing.  You will learn how to successful develop legal argument both orally and in writing.

Law of Obligations

This module will give you an insight into the Law of Obligations by examining the foundation elements of liability within Contract Law and Tort law. You will examine the legal requirements for the formation of a contract and factors that could see a contract void. You will also explore the liability within negligence in tort law.

Aspects of Public Law

This module gives you an insight into aspects of public law, including the role of the rule of law and parliamentary supremacy. You will also examine liability within criminal law, by looking at how to establish whether a crime has been committed. Furthermore, you will explore the incorporation of human rights within the English Legal System.

Introduction to the English Legal System

This module introduces you to the different aspects of the English Legal System. You will examine the different ways laws are made and interpreted in court and form an understanding of the different personnel and courts within the English Legal System, looking at how effectively these operate. This module will also include an introduction to legal research and methods.

Law in a Global Context

In this module you will examine the position and role of law within our modern, globalised world. You will demonstrate a critical understanding on how the law impacts various aspects of law. You will develop awareness of the changing landscape of law both now and in the future.

Contract Law I

This module introduces you to the different aspects of contract law. These include the nature of contract law and the fundamental elements of contract, as well as understanding contract terms and exclusion clauses. You will also continue to develop legal reasoning, research and referencing skills.

Contract Law II

This module will continue to develop your knowledge of contract law. Topics include, the factors that can vitiate a contract, when a contract is discharged, remedies for breach of contract and privity of contract. You will also continue to develop legal reasoning, research and referencing skills.

Introduction to Political Ideas

This module introduces you to the academic analysis of Politics, where you will gain an understanding of Politics both as an activity and as a discipline. The module also focuses on the space of Politics, and the conceptual approaches, ideology, schools, and methods in Politics.

Administrative Law

In this module you will continue to study public law by focusing on administrative law. You will examine the development of administrative law in England, Judicial Review and Police Powers.

International Environmental Law

This module introduces you to different aspects of Environmental Law in the context of National, European Union and International Law. You will examine the underpinning foundations of Environmental Law and how National Law has developed in both Criminal and Civil Law. You will assess the impact that the European Union and International Law has had on the development of Environmental Law regionally and globally.

International Human Rights Law

This module examines different sources of human rights law, its impact on the English Legal System and considers different substantive areas of the law under the European Convention on Human Rights including absolute, limited and qualified rights.

Professional Skills And Client Care

This module develops an understanding of the central professional skills required to work in the legal profession. You will develop key vocational and employability skills in simulated employment situations.

Re-Litigating the Past: State, Media and Historical Injustice in Contemporary Britain

This module focuses on how public histories have been rewritten in Britain over the past three decades, through the interventions of state, media, and voluntary sector institutions.

By studying these forms of investigations, you will learn about how private traumas are integrated into or transformed public memory, the ways in which and reasons why silences are maintained or broken, and the place of ‘the past’ in judicial processes.

Tort Law I

This module introduces you to the concept of tort law and a range of torts including negligence, product liability, trespass to the person and defamation, as well as relevant defences and remedies. You will continue to develop legal reasoning, research and referencing skills.

Tort Law II

This module develops your understanding of tort law, building on the knowledge you developed in Tort I. You will study a range of torts including nuisance, trespass to land, Rylands v Fletcher, occupiers’ liability, vicarious liability and breach of statutory duty, as well as relevant defences and remedies.

Work Placement

This double module provides invaluable experience working as a performance analyst within a sporting organisation. It will enable you to foster an acute understanding of how performance analysis is used within sport, offer insight into organisational culture, develop essential professional knowledge and skills, facilitate reflective practice, and develop a network of professional contacts.

Dissertation

You will produce a dissertation which, as the culmination of your undergraduate studies, will enable you to engage with, and participate in, research and scholarship appropriate to your object of study

Equity and Trusts I

In this module, you will study how the law of equity was developed, the different types of trusts, and the requirements for a valid trust.

Equity and Trusts II

In this module you will continue your study of equity and trusts focusing on the areas of law relating to when a trust is up and running, as well as considering the nature of charitable trusts.

Family Law

This module provides a study of several key aspects of family law; the law that regulates interpersonal relationships between adults and children.

Intellectual Property Law

This module provides a study of intellectual property law.  You will examine different areas of intellectual property: patents, copyright, industrial design, registered trademarks, unregistered trademarks (passing off), computer programs and databases, and confidential information.  You will consider the conditions for protection, scope of protection, duration and remedies.

Land Law I

In this module you will study how property is classified, the registration of land and the doctrine of tenures and estates.  Your studies will examine role and impact of statutory law, common law and equity in relation to the classification and ownership of land.

Land Law II

In this module you will continue your study of land law.  You will examine the topics of easements and profits, mortgages, licenses, covenants relating to freeholds and the rules of perpetuity.