The University of Law (ULaw) and City Law School have moved to completely online learning in resonse to the coronavirus outbreak, with all face-to face teaching suspended. In a statement, ULaw said: “In the interests of the health, wellbeing and safety of all members of the University Community, the University has made the decision to […]
Barking and Dagenham Council is to recruit two solicitor apprentices and one paralegal apprentice.
Legal Practice Course (LPC) fees have risen at providers across the country, with the average cost of the course now standing at £11,550.
BPP has frozen its BPTC fees – but is under pressure from ULaw, which has launched an “enhanced” BPTC that is cheaper and will also include an LLM.
East Anglian’s Ashtons Legal is to run a solicitor apprenticeship.
Private renting is rocketing in London but tenants have less access to legal help than their public sector counterparts. One legal clinic is aiming to redress the balance.
The Future Legal Mind competition 2016 seeks to reward the brightest legal minds of tomorrow. Entrants were asked to demonstrate original thinking and legal insight, with a well-structured argument and evidence of research. Tom Phillips was the overall winner, answering the question: “Is the commoditisation of legal services inevitable and is a commercial approach more likely to […]
Fees for the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) have risen by an average of 4.3 per cent for the 2016/17 academic year, Lawyer 2B can reveal. At £19,070, BPP’s course in London remains the most expensive; however, it also has the best record of getting students into chambers. As Lawyer 2B revealed last year, some […]
Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) students who study part-time are half as likely to gain pupillage as those who study full-time. Research by the Bar Standards Board found that around 20 per cent of BPTC students from the UK and EU who took the course full time in 2013 gained pupillage. By contrast, less than […]
Two of the country’s sharpest legal prospects have walked away with a £5,000 prize, as well as the title of Future Legal Mind 2015, for their essays on access to justice. Amy Loughery, an undergraduate student at the University of York, and Lukas Hamilton Eddy, a postgraduate student at City University London, will each receive £5,000 towards […]
The Future Legal Mind competition 2015 seeks to reward the brightest legal minds of tomorrow. Entrants were asked to demonstrate original thinking and legal insight, with a well-structured argument and evidence of research. Lukas Hamilton Eddy won the postgraduate category, answering the question: ”How do you think the provision of legal services should change over the next 10 […]
Lawyer 2B attended City University’s event on how to get through pupillage interviews. Here are our carefully selected words of wisdom from the assembled panel.