Law LLB (Hons)

A career in law is diverse, challenging and rewarding. No two days are the same and the daily tasks are varied. Take a Law degree with us and you will gain the real-world skills and experience employers are looking for.

In a legal career, you might be advising clients, meeting with other legal professionals or experts, drafting paperwork, researching the law or attending a court hearing. Our degree has been designed to give you all these experiences, but in a safe environment learning from experienced academics, solicitors and barristers.

Work directly with clients and the community

Working in law is a fantastic opportunity to use your knowledge to help your community. That’s why we offer the chance to help real clients with legal matters through our Legal Advice Service. This involves client interviewing, research and written advice. With our Street Law module, students can work with schools, charities or community groups, delivering sessions on legal topics relevant to their lives. These initiatives give you direct experience using skills needed in the legal profession.

Practice mooting skills 

Our immersive simulated environments will give you real-world skills. You’ll present legal arguments for trials and other cases, meaning you’ll be more confident in the processes you need to follow for the assessments or the real world.

Use software and techniques found in legal settings

You’ll have the opportunity to do accredited training on the databases used by law firms, so when you gain a position, you’ll be ready from day one. What’s more, even our assessments mirror the activities you’ll do in legal practice.

Personalise your degree for your future

A career in law can be for everyone. There are so many areas to practise in, each offering a different way of working and needing different skills. The course will give you the foundations for a range of specialisms. Choose from a range of options in your final year, covering everything from human rights law to cyber and AI law.

Once you graduate, you’ll be equipped for further studies to become a qualified barrister, solicitor or CILEX lawyer.

On successful completion of study, we will issue the following award: LLB (Hons) Law

Duration

University of Staffordshire undergraduate courses are usually 3 years for full-time study.

Courses which offer other study options have longer durations:

  • Full-time with a placement year, 4 years
  • Full-time with a foundation year, 4 years
  • Part-time, 4-9 years

Course content

Foundation year:

You will cover core legal skills to help you read and interpret both common law (case law) and statutory law. You’ll gain awareness of different areas of law and will be able to identify and discuss key legal issues within each field.

The foundation year will also prepare you for academic writing and critical thinking, ensuring you are ready to move on to higher levels of study. Assessments will also be based on real-world skills, such as client interviewing and writing a cover letter for a job application.

First year:

We’ll introduce you to contract law and tort law, which are both aspects of civil law and cover legal agreements and civil liabilities. You will cover constitutional law, which underpins the rules and laws of the state, along with studying the court system and how it operates.

You’ll begin to develop your legal skills, including writing, referencing and research – crucial for any future legal career. We also look at the law in practice. You will visit a court or tribunal and then reflect on what you have seen.

Second year:

You will learn about property law, including home ownership, ownership, leases and licences. We’ll also cover criminal law, EU law, and the lawfulness of decisions taken by public bodies.

Alongside core modules, you can pick an optional module. You will be taking a work placement or delving into business law, commercial awareness and employability skills.

Innovative assessments will look at real-world skills, such as developing your LinkedIn profile or doing a presentation to a simulated employer.

Third year:

We offer a wide range of optional modules to suit your interests, including researching a dissertation. You can explore mooting in our simulated courtrooms, where you’ll present a point of law and argue your case in front of a judge. It’s great preparation for becoming a barrister and wider teamwork skills.

Other areas include human rights, alternative dispute resolution, employment law or family law. If you volunteer with our Legal Advice Service, you’ll offer free advice to the public under supervision. With street law, you could be doing presentations for school students or community groups on useful legal topics.

Modules

The tables provide an indicative list of the modules that make up the course for the current academic year. Each module is worth a specified number of credits. Our teaching is informed by research, and modules change periodically to reflect developments in the discipline. We aim to ensure that all modules run as scheduled. If for any reason a module cannot be run we will advise you as soon as possible and will provide guidance on selecting an appropriate alternative module.

Year 1 compulsory modules
Constitutional Law 20 credits
Contract Law 20 credits
English Legal System 20 credits
Law In Practice 20 credits
Legal Skills 20 credits
Tort Law 20 credits
Year 2 compulsory modules
Administrative Law 20 credits
Criminal Law 20 credits
European Union Law 20 credits
Law Of Trusts And Equitable Remedies 20 credits
Property Law 20 credits
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Year 3 compulsory modules
There are no compulsory modules for this year.
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Entry requirements

112-120 UCAS Tariff points

  • GCE A Levels - grades BBC or equivalent
  • Pearson BTEC National Extended Diploma - grade DMM
  • Access to HE Diploma - Pass Access with a minimum of 80 UCAS tariff points. Applicants to Staffs who are taking the Access to HE Diploma receive a reduced tariff point offer as part of our access and participation plan activity
  • UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma - grade of Merit overall
  • OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma - grade DMM
  • T Levels - Eligible T Level applications will be asked to achieve a minimum overall grade of P (A*-C) or Higher Pass as a condition of offer

We understand that you might have experienced a challenging run up to higher education and may have not met the entry requirements as listed. If this is the case don’t worry, contact us and our team of expert advisors can guide you through the next stages of application, or help you find the perfect course for your needs.

Facilities

Blackboard (VLE)

Blackboard is a virtual learning environment which houses your learning content. It enables online teaching/learning, provides spaces to build online communities and knowledge sharing.

The Hall

Integrate yourself with the buzz of digital technologies in The Hall, a space dedicated to discussion and meetings. This flexible space can be configured to suit the needs of up to 30 students, with electrical points and multiple seating areas.

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The Stage

The Stage is a 20 person capacity presentation space equipped with conferencing facilities.

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Off-campus library services

Distance learners benefit from a range of services including access to e-books, postal loans of physical books, online support from subject librarians and more. Read more

Library services and learning resources

We offer an extensive range of library services to our off-campus students and help is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Our comprehensive online catalogue of eResources are available for you to search for and access material such as eBooks, journals and databases. Our team of librarians can help you find your way around the electronic resources and library catalogues, or if there’s something specific you need, they can help you to source it.

Our LibGuides provide information and advice on using our online resources, with specific pages for each subject area, and can help you search for quality-assured websites. 

Find out more: Library Resources

The Den

Everyone needs a space to relax, wind down, and take a break from study, and we have just that. In our den you'll find all the things you need to help chill you out including lockers, comfy booths, food prep space and more. Read more

The Den includes:

  • Lockers to store your personal items
  • Comfy booths to sit, chat and eat in
  • Electrical sockets to plug in your devices
  • Wireless pads that charge the latest smartphones
  • A prep area for food and drinks
  • Fridges to keep snacks in
  • Low, soft seating for kicking band and unwinding
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Digital Loft

A cross between a digital and natural environment, the Digital Loft brings the outside in with new and dynamic teaching spaces, state-of-the-art facilities and workstations, and a Reload retro gaming café with innovative touch-screen tables. Read more

Teaching and collaboration zones for all subject areas, a dedicated presentation space, a downtime reflection quiet area known as ‘Recharge’ and a faith room. This area of campus also houses the academic staff and student support teams, as well as a number of bookable meeting spaces for all. Fully integrated virtual conferencing is embedded throughout, and there are private pods for all to use for work or online meetings.
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Reload Café

‘Reload' is the showpiece retro-gaming café with innovative touch-screen tables to order your food and drink as well as get live updates on activities and events as well as being able to play games whilst socialising.

Careers

Our course will grow your skills and knowledge to prepare you for a range of careers.

You could progress to the next stages of studying toward becoming a solicitor, barrister or a CILEX lawyer. Alternatively, the degree gives you a vast range of practical skills into other related areas.

Teaching and assessment

Teaching

You will be taught through a combination of lectures and workshops. Workshops enable you to develop your knowledge of topics covered in lectures and apply your learning to real-world case studies and problems, as well as consideration of theoretical and critical perspectives to enhance knowledge and understanding.  The aim is to foster an academic community which promotes lifelong learning and is supported by research and practice informed teaching with learning strategies and technologies to support the student experience. In addition, you will have opportunities to meet with your personal tutor twice a year.   

Assessment

Your course will provide you with opportunities to test your understanding of your subject informally before you complete the formal assessments that count towards your final mark. Each module includes a practice or ‘formative’ assessment for which you receive feedback from your tutor. Practice assessments are developmental and any grades you receive for them do not count towards your module mark. Each module has one or more formal or ‘summative’ assessment. This includes a range of assessments, such as essays, reports, problem-solving tasks, portfolios, presentations, academic posters, projects, dissertations and written examinations. The grades from formal assessments count towards your module mark.

Learning support

In addition to the excellent support you will receive from your course teaching team, our central Academic Skills team provides group and one-to-one help to support your learning in a number of areas. These include study skills (including reading, note-taking and presentation skills); written English (including punctuation and grammatical accuracy); academic writing (including how to reference); research skills; critical thinking and understanding arguments; and revision, assessment and examination skills (including time management).

Additional support

Our Student Inclusion Services support students with additional needs such as sensory impairment, or learning difficulties such as dyslexia.

Feedback

You will normally receive feedback on coursework assessments within 20 working days following the date of submission. Examination feedback may take a variety of formats. However, as a minimum, generic feedback will be made available to all students who take summative assessment.

Staff

You'll be taught by a range of members from our law team which is made up of experts and qualified solicitors who understand the skills you need for your future career. 

Natasha Thomas

Senior Lecturer

Natasha is a Solicitor & Senior Lecturer and the Course Lead for the LLB (HONS) Law degree. She is the clinic manager for the Legal Advice Service which provides free legal advice to the public in conjunction with our law students.

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Donna Graham

Lecturer

I teach on both the undergraduate and postgraduate portfolios from Levels 3 to 7. I teach a wide range of subjects, including Tort Law, Legal Skills, Business Law, Employment Law, and Critical Thinking.

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Anna Garland

Course Director

Anna was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1994 and practised as a Barrister specialising in Family and Criminal Law. She is now Course Leader for LLB (Hons) Law and Course Director for our Law courses.

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Giles Gater

Senior Lecturer

Giles is a solicitor, senior lecturer, and course leader for the two-year accelerated law degree programme. Giles is a University of Staffordshire alumni, specialising in property law, tax law, cyber law, and artificial intelligence law.

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Dr Rachael Stretch

Lecturer

I am a Lecturer in Law, specialising in Family Law, Law and Disability and SEND, Equity and Trusts, Quantitative Methodology, Comparative Methodology and Professionals and Mandatory Reporting.

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Dr Samantha Spence

Course Director Associate Professor

Dr Samantha Spence, Associate Professor and Course Director for PG Law, specialises in international human rights, gender justice, superstition-related harms, and marginalised communities, with global research and UN policy impact.

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Dr Md Jobair Alam

Lecturer

I lead the LLM in International Law. I teach and conduct research in international law, refugee law, human rights, and minority studies. My research addresses the challenges vulnerable groups and refugees face in securing their rights.

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Aidan Flynn

Senior Lecturer

Aidan worked in three Law firms, before becoming a lecturer at Staffordshire University in 2016. He is Course Leader for the LLB (Hons) Law (Accelerated) and has expertise in Constitutional, EU and Human Rights Law.

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Fees

UK and Channel Island students: This tuition fee is agreed subject to UK government policy and parliamentary regulation. If the UK government passes appropriate legislation, the fee for subsequent years of study may increase in each academic year. But this increase will not exceed the rate of inflation as measured by RPIX**. Any change in fees will apply to both new and continuing students. The University will notify students of any change as early as possible. Further information about fee changes would be posted on the University’s website once this becomes available.

**RPIX is a measure of inflation equivalent to all the items in the Retail Price Index (RPI) excluding mortgage interest payments.

Accommodation and living costs

Accommodation and living costs are not included in our fees.

Sources of financial support

If you receive funding from Student Finance you may be eligible to apply for additional benefits. Details can be obtained by visiting: www.gov.uk

Scholarships and additional funding

As an undergraduate student at Staffordshire, you may be eligible for additional financial support through one of our scholarships and bursaries. You can visit our funding page to find out more and check your eligibility.

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Students of University of Staffordshire enter into a contract with us and are bound by these rules and regulations, which are subject to change. For more information, please see: University Policies and Regulations.

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