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ACC4011 – International Finance Project
Field: LAW
Co-ordinator: Ai-Quang Tonthat
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - International Finance Project, Coursework: 100%
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Description: The purpose of this module is to develop students? capabilities to apply a range of financial and non-financial techniques to analyse and compare the performances and competitiveness of different multinational corporations from a variety of perspectives, including finance, investment, sustainablity and ethics.
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LAW3004 – Employment Law
Field: LAW
Co-ordinator: Kate Exall
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment:
Designated for:
Description: The purpose of this module is to give students a broad understanding of the law relating to areas of individual employment law. This will be of particular use to those who are thinking of working in an advice setting such as a trade union, in human resources, the legal profession or a charity as well as those looking to employ staff or those wanting to know about their rights in the workplace.
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LAW3013 – Medical Law
Field: LAW
Co-ordinator:
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Medical Law (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 50% Exam: 50%
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Description: The purpose of this module is to enable students to gain an understanding of the main principles of medical law and to develop an ability to analyse some of those principles.
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LAW3017 – Sentencing and Prisons
Field: LAW
Co-ordinator: Dominic Carrington
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment:
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Description: The purpose of this module is to explore sentencing procedure and aspects of imprisonment. Students will gain an understanding of how sentencing is conducted within the English Legal System and how this can be influenced by political, financial and social factors. Various aspects of the prison system are analysed and students are encouraged to explore links between the sentencing framework and penal policy.
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LAW3018 – Land Law
Field: LAW
Co-ordinator: Kate Exall
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment:
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Description: The purpose of this module is to promote an understanding of the idea of property in relation to land and the rights which people have in or over it.
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LAW3019 – European and International Human Rights Law
Field: LAW
Co-ordinator: Kirstie Best
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment:
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Description: The purpose of this module is to develop a critical understanding of the role of regional and international law in the recognition and protection of human rights, and to understand the limitations of regional and international law in addressing breaches of human rights.
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LAW3025 – Practical Legal Skills
Field: LAW
Co-ordinator: Dominic Carrington
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment:
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Description: The purpose of this module is to give students the opportunity to learn and apply the practical skills they will need in a future legal career in a professional context. It will also be of use to those considering a career in general commerial or business environments.
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LAW3026 – Equity and Trusts
Field: LAW
Co-ordinator: Ebenezer Laryea
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment:
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Description: The purpose of this module is explain and analyse the principles and workings of equity and trusts law, including the application of those principles to factual circumstances; the manner in which they affect people in their everyday lives; how these principles can be reconciled with those governing the creation of express trusts and the imposition of trusts by law; and to understand how other legal models challenge the traditional understanding of equity.
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LAW3030 – Law of Equity, Wills, Probate and Trusts
Field: LAW
Co-ordinator: Ebenezer Laryea
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Law Of Equity, Wills, Probate And Trusts (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 50% STD - Law Of Equity, Wills, Probate And Trusts, Coursework: 50% Exam: 50% STDFF - Law Of Equity, Wills, Probate And Trusts (4 Year Programme), Exam: 50%
Designated for: Designated for: Llb; Llb (4 Year Programme);
Description: The purpose of this module is to explain and analyse the principles of Equity and Trusts and of Wills and Probate, to apply them to factual practical situations and to demonstrate how they affect people's everyday lives. The module will benefit students who are working towards the SQE.
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LAW3031 – Land Law
Field: LAW
Co-ordinator: Kate Exall
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Land Law (Integrated Foundation Year), Coursework: 50% STD - Land Law, Coursework: 50% Exam: 50% STDFF - Land Law (Integrated Foundation Year), Exam: 50%
Designated for: Designated for: Llb; Llb (4 Year Programme);
Description: The purpose of the this module is to give students an understanding of the legal principles involved in Land Law and of how they operate in the wider social and economic context. The module will benefit students who are working towards the SQE.
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LAW3032 – Business Law and Practice
Field: LAW
Co-ordinator: Ayshea O'Brien
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Business Law And Practice (Integrated Foundation Year), Coursework: 100% STD - Business Law And Practice, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: Llb; Llb (4 Year Programme);
Description: The purpose of this module is for students to acquire a sound understanding of Business Law and Practice by providing practical legal advice on a range of issues from forming and managing a business through to termination; such as governance, social sustainibility, stakeholders to the distrubution and taxation of profits. The module will benefit students who are working towards the SQE.
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LAW3034 – Civil Litigation and ADR
Field: LAW
Co-ordinator: Dominic Carrington
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Civil Litigation And Adr, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Civil Litigation And Adr (Integrated Foundation Year), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: Llb; Llb (4 Year Programme);
Description: The purpose of this module is to enable students to gain an understanding of the main priciples of civil litigationa and ADR and to develop an ability to analyse some of those principles. The module will benefit students who are working towards the SQE.
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LAW3035 – Civil Law on the High Street
Field: LAW
Co-ordinator: Kate Exall
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Civil Law On The High Street (Integrated Foundation Year), Coursework: 100% STD - Civil Law On The High Street, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: Llb; Llb (4 Year Programme);
Description: This module looks at the main principles of Employment Law and Family Law/two areas of law that are commonly encountered in everyday legal practice.It seeks to provide students with the opportunity to contextualise their subject knowledge,through expansion and application of substantive legal principles to real-worls problems
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LAW3036 – Legal Skills in Practice
Field: LAW
Co-ordinator: Dominic Carrington
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Legal Skills In Practice (Integrated Foundation Year), Coursework: 100% STD - Legal Skills In Practice, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: Llb; Llb (4 Year Programme);
Description: The purpose of this module is to help prepare students for a legal career by examining professional ethics and to give students the opportunity to learn and apply the practical legal skills they will need in a future legal career. The skills will be relevant to the work that solicitors and barristers undertake in practice and also persons who wish to work in other industries.
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LAW3037 – Sentencing and Penal Policy
Field: LAW
Co-ordinator: Ed Johnston
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Sentencing And Penal Policy, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Sentencing And Penal Policy (Integrated Foundation Year), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: Llb; Llb (4 Year Programme);
Description: The purpose of this module is to explore sentencing procedure and different aspects of imprisonment. Throughout the module students are encouraged to consider the realities of life inside our prisons and how sentencing and penal policy can be influenced by policitcal, financial and social factors.
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LAW3038 – Contemporary Issues in Human Rights
Field: LAW
Co-ordinator: Kirstie Best
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Contemporary Issues In Human Rights, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Contemporary Issues In Human Rights (Integrated Foundation Year), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Criminology; BA Criminology (4 Year Programme); Llb; Llb (4 Year Programme);
Description: The purpose of this module is to develop a critical understanding of current issues in relation to human rights, and to evaluate the role and effectiveness of national, regional and international law in the recognition and protection of human rights.
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LAW4002 – Dissertation
Field: LAW
Co-ordinator: Jade Brailsford
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Dissertation, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Dissertation (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
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Description: The purpose of this module is to provide students with the opportunity to develop, practice and exhibit their skills as an independent learner through the researching and writing of a dissertation in a chosen legal topic and to demonstrate coherent, detailed and analytical knowledge of that topic.
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LAW4003 – Joint Dissertation
Field: LAW
Co-ordinator: Jade Brailsford
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: Joint Dissertation module in a second subject must be taken with this module.
Assessment: STDFF - Joint Dissertation ( 4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% STD - Joint Dissertation, Coursework: 100%
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Description: The purpose of this module is to provide students with the opportunity to develop and exhibit their skills as an independent learner through the researching and writing of a dissertation in a chosen interdisciplinary legal topic and to demonstrate coherent, detailed and analytical knowledge of that topic.
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LAW4006 – Dissertation
Field: LAW
Co-ordinator: Jade Brailsford
Credit Value: 40
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Dissertation (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% INT - Dissertation (Llb Accelerated), Coursework: 100% STD - Dissertation, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: Llb; Llb (4 Year Programme);
Description: The purpose of this module is to enable students to develop their independent research and writing skills and present information in a reflective and critical manner.