Law with Professional Legal Practice with Foundation Year

Law with professional legal practice at the University of Keele takes the foundational knowledge of a qualifying law degree and integrates it with skills-based preparation for the realities of legal work, creating a programme oriented from the outset towards the practical demands of legal careers. The addition of a foundation year makes the degree accessible to students who need additional academic preparation before entering the full programme, and the LLB is explicitly designed to help you build towards the Solicitors Qualifying Examination, which is the current assessment route for qualifying as a solicitor in England and Wales.

You will cover all the substantive areas of English law, developing a systematic and critical understanding of contract, tort, criminal law, constitutional and administrative law, land law, and equity, while simultaneously building the practical skills that legal professionals use every day: client management and interviewing, legal research, drafting, and professional communication. The professional legal practice strand ensures that doctrinal learning is always grounded in its practical application, making connections between the law as it appears in the statute book and the law as it is lived and argued in practice.

A typical entry tariff of 104 UCAS points, with the foundation year entry route, reflects an inclusive admissions standard. Graduates who proceed to the SQE will be well prepared by the programme's explicit alignment with that qualification route. Others use the law degree as a foundation for careers in business, public administration, compliance, policy, journalism, and any field where the analytical and communicative skills a law degree develops are valued.