Course summary

Looking to enhance your work experience while at the same time gaining entry onto our LLB (Hons) Law degree? The HND Law and Practice is a standalone Higher National Qualification that provides you with a diverse range of legal knowledge and skills designed to enhance your career prospects or begin your career in law. The course combines study of some foundation areas of English law such as crime, contract and tort with the study of skills-based modules such as litigation and professional practice. While also developing academic skills to underpin your successful legal study, the course gives you the opportunity to create and refine typical transferable skills that are useful for working with others. By implementing established techniques of communication to present oral and written legal advice in a meaningful way, you will present legal arguments to a range of audiences based on a variety of simulated legal issues. If you successfully complete the HND Law and Practice course, you can progress directly onto the second year of the LLB (Hons) Law course at Birmingham City University should you wish to continue your studies and gain a law degree.