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The 3 Why choose The City Law School? 4 About us 5 Benefits 6 About you 7 Pro Bono 8 BPTC to LLM 9 Recent publications by BPTC staff 10

2 The City Law School Bar Professional Training Course The City Law School World class in the heart of

The City Law School is one of London’s major law Courses available: Bar Professional Training Course Training Professional Bar schools. Incorporating what was formerly known Undergraduate courses as the Inns Court School of Law, The City Law Law LLB (Hons) School offers an impressive range of academic and professional legal courses, and is the first law school Graduate courses in London to offer students and practitioners all (GDL) stages of legal education. Graduate Entry LLB (Hons) Professional courses With four levels of study: undergraduate, Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) postgraduate, professional and continuing (LPC) professional development, we offer courses suitable

Legal Practice LLM the Professionals with Practice for anyone interested in following a career in law and are also able to meet the continuing training Professional Legal Skills LLM needs of the profession. Taught Masters Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution LLM Our distinguished history and exceptional academic Criminal Litigation LLM staff show a commitment to both the students we EU LLM educate and the profession we serve and we have International Banking Law LLM a long-established reputation for excellence and International Business Law LLM (distance learning) innovation in the study and practice of law. International Commercial Law MJur/LLM Based in the heart of legal London and the City, with International Competition Law LLM sites in Gray’s Inn and , our Maritime Law (UK) LLM location and expertise ensure we really are the City’s Maritime Law (Greece) LLM law school. Public International Law LLM Further courses Research Degrees MPhil/PhD Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

www.city.ac.uk/law 3 Why choose The City Law School? Forward thinking for future

The City Law School is a leading • We produce numerous publications Our relationships and links with the institution in innovation and used by the profession and future profession and leading academics course design. lawyers, including Keane on give you access to the best legal Evidence and the BPTC manuals minds available today. Throughout our 150 year history we (published by the OUP as the ‘bar have been at the forefront of legal series’) used to teach all BPTCs We involve practitioners directly education. Our courses are designed • In addition to numerous publishing in the delivery and development of to meet the needs of our students and credits, many of our academics our courses. Our teaching teams are the modern legal profession, and our also advise UK and international comprised of experienced lecturers, staff continually develop our courses governments on policy matters many of whom are still active in the with an eye on the future needs of the relating to their specialist areas. profession ensuring that you leave profession. us with the skills and knowledge relevant to today’s legal world. • We are the original provider of bar Our learning resources give you training and developed the first everything you need to succeed • Our extensive legal links allow BVC (now BPTC) in 1989 whilst studying and as you prepare us to offer internships and other to head into the legal profession career enhancing opportunities to • We were one of the first institutions and world of work. many of our students to develop the CPE/GDL for non- law graduates in 1976 We are committed to giving each • Our alumni network includes leading figures in law and • We were one of the first providers of our students a fully-integrated, international politics: to offer top-up LLMs to LPC/BPTC modern learning experience. - students in 2008. You will benefit from a range of - Baroness Buscombe - Shami Chakrabarti The impact of our academic research learning tools and facilities designed - The Honourable Mrs Justice helps inform the development of to grow and improve your legal skills Linda Dobbs legal education, the practice of law and knowledge. - MA Jinnah and the development of UK and • Our online learning environment, - Michael Mansfield international policy. Moodle, gives you instant access - Robert Swannell to the materials and resources you - . The School takes an active role in need 24 hours a day, seven days the legal profession, legal research a week and the wider business community. Our lecturers are leaders in their • Our award-winning legal research respective fields and regularly portal, Lawbore, also provides contribute to the profession. online access to all the legal reference material you’ll need • We are recognised as producing on demand research of world-leading quality by the Research Assessment • With over 1,000 PCs, wireless Exercise (RAE) hotspots, 24 hour PC labs and two specialist law libraries your learning needs come first at City.

4 The City Law School Bar Professional Training Course About us The City BPTC

Our well-established and world- Option subjects: You will have the opportunity to Bar Professional Training Course Training Professional Bar renowned BPTC has been designed expand upon the legal knowledge • Advanced criminal litigation to meet every demand of the modern you gain in the classroom through Bar ensuring that you are fully • Commercial law a series of practitioner lectures. prepared for professional life. Our Notable speakers have included • Company law course provides you with transferable Sir Conrad Schiemann, Michael skills, which can be applied in a • Domestic violence Mansfield QC, Justice Eady and Lord variety of contexts. Gifford and subjects have ranged • Employment law from fraud to human rights. You are taught by professionally- • qualified experts who bring a range of The School is also investing • Fraud and financial crime experience and specialist knowledge heavily in e-learning solutions and to the course. Our academic staff • Free representation unit: developing online content to the Professionals with Practice are directly involved in practice and employment support the teaching and learning a number of staff sit, or have sat, process, backing up the extensive • Free representation unit: social in a part-time judicial capacity and face-to-face work you will do in your security maintain door tenancies. In addition, classroom groups and one-to-one members of our staff, including BPTC • Landlord and tenant with your tutors. Course Director Professor Stuart • Professional negligence. Sime, are leading authors of the Being part of a major London practitioner and student textbooks university also brings you a host of The course is designed to replicate used on most BPTC programmes additional benefits and services, the demands and disciplines of life around the country (see page 11). including a wide range of excellent in chambers with an emphasis on non-academic support and cultural learning by doing. Core subjects: services. Essentially, we are able to provide a University experience Advocacy is taught in a courtroom • Alternative dispute resolution within a self-contained law school. setting in groups of six and one-to- • Case preparation and analysis one. Small group sessions are held in • Civil advocacy groups of 12. Interactive large group sessions are also held frequently • Civil litigation, civil evidence and In addition to the core and elective remedies elements of the course, The City • Conference skills Law School adds value to your student experience in a number of • Criminal advocacy ways including Pro Bono, mooting, • Criminal litigation, sentencing and advocacy and through the support of criminal evidence your career development. • Drafting skills As the original provider, we • Legal research understand that the search for can be every bit as stressful • Opinion writing skills and demanding as the undertaking • Professional ethics. of the BPTC itself. The Pupillage Advisory Service (PAS) was set up to Other important areas covered within provide the best advice, information the context of the main subjects are: and assistance both to those of you looking for and those of you who • Costs have obtained pupillage (see page 8). • Human rights • Risk analysis.

www.city.ac.uk/law 5 Benefits Why choose the City BPTC?

Studying the BPTC is about much • Social events with fellow students, As part of City University London, more than just going to classes. School staff and legal professionals The City Law School also offers you Successful applicants know that that offer excellent networking the full range of services that you experience, practice and a sound opportunities and the chance to would expect from a professionally knowledge of skills make you stand start building lifelong professional focused University: out from the crowd. relationships • Students Union with over 40 • Extensive opportunities to enter At The City Law School, we student societies and many social mooting competitions at course, understand that it’s the extras that events School, national and international really help to develop your potential. levels. These include Blackstone • Accommodation, including Our team delivers expert teaching, BPTC Mooting Competition, dedicated postgraduate Halls of mentoring and guidance in a friendly The City Law School Part-Time Residence and supportive environment. BPTC Mooting competition and • Health care and counselling the Willem Vis Moot in Vienna. We offer a wide range of extra- Mooting is one of the most effective • Sports and leisure facilities curricular activities designed to ways to develop the skills you will complement the knowledge and • International student support need to be a successful skills you gain on the course: and advice • The also run • Extensive library facilities. • A extensive variety of Pro Bono competitions in which The City opportunities offering involvement Law School students have achieved both globally and in the local consistently high placements community and the chance to enhance your CV, as well as • An annual Client Interviewing gaining “real-world” professional Competition that enables students experience (see page 9) to develop their core legal and personal presentation skills whilst • A dedicated careers service for competing with peers in a national BPTC students offering individual forum pupillage advice, in addition to access to the careers advice and • Access to a team of administrative support that is available to every and support staff within the course, City University London student. the School and the wider University We have a proven track record of • Extensive opportunities to receive helping students secure pupilage constructive feedback on your own • Professional networking events progress and for you to comment with organisations such as on your experience as a BPTC Commonwealth in student as part of our ongoing ’ Association (CEBA), course development. Association of Women Barristers (AWB) and Bar Association for Commerce, Finance & Industry (BACFI)

6 The City Law School Bar Professional Training Course About you Meeting your career needs

Pupillage Advisory Service (PAS) We understand that many City Careers Support Bar Professional Training Course Training Professional Bar At City we have developed a specialist students won’t want to leave it As part of City University London, careers service within our BPTC. The until they are on the BPTC to you will also have access to the Pupillage Advisory Service (PAS) is start looking and strongly Careers, Student Development & there to help City BPTC students who encourage you to make contact Outreach (CSDO) – a comprehensive have still to secure a pupillage. Many with PAS before you start the careers service to offer you guidance of these services can be used once course in September. at every step of the way. This service you have accepted your place on is available for you for up to three the course. years after you complete your course.

PAS provides: Services available include:

• One-to-one pupillage advice • Individual, confidential careers the Professionals with Practice sessions with members of the guidance Pupillage advice team (all • Mock interviews and role play barristers with experience of interviews, pupillage selection etc) • Vacancy service • Mock pupillage interviews (45 • Psychometric testing and other minute general interview including forms of assessment feedback) • Volunteering and mentoring • Mock pupillage advocacy exercise opportunities and presentation with feedback • Group presentations and • Advice and lectures about workshops PORTAL/OLPAS including the • A programme of talks on career- application procedure and how to related topics throughout the complete the form academic year • Lecture from the authors of ‘The • A dedicated Careers room on Path to Pupillage’ Georgina Wolfe campus with additional access and Alexander Robson to the City Careers Service at • Workshops with practising Northampton Square. Barristers (from Heads of Chamber to recent successful students) The CSDO is based at Northampton on how to make an effective Square but a representative from the application team attends the Gray’s Inn campus one day a week. • Workshops with practising barristers (Heads of Chamber, We encourage our students to make Pupillage Committees etc) on appointments wherever possible to what Chambers are looking for at ensure that you receive the time and interview assistance that you require. Subject • Lecture on preparing for practice to availability, you can also use this with accountants specialising in time for drop-in appointments. barristers accounts • Bar Association for Commerce Finance & Industry (BACFI) evening for opportunities at the employed bar.

www.city.ac.uk/law 7 Pro Bono Real skills, real lives, real law

Pro Bono is an integral part of How do students benefit? • Active connections with many life here at The City Law School. You will be able to meet, interview, excellent external bodies. The advise or represent clients in a variety London Innocence Project has What is the Pro Bono service? of legal situations. In most situations, premises at our Gray’s Inn campus. It is legal clinical work undertaken you will be supervised by qualified The School also has links with by law students which enhances lawyers or The City Law School staff Blackfriars Settlement Advice Clinic their learning experience and to ensure that you are supported and which is based at Waterloo that your work is of an appropriate employability. You can choose to use • We send two students a year to the standard and quality. your legal skills to offer free legal South African Ubuntu Internship advice and support to the community Programme. This is a self-funded through advice clinics, educational Pro Bono and the BPTC internship in South Africa (based at work or working in partnership with The City Law School is dedicated to The Western Cape University). Here other not-for-profit organisations. helping you develop the skills you students will assist with an advice need for practice. To aid this we offer clinic, carry out Street Law projects What level of commitment is our BPTC students extensive and and shadow attorneys during court required? varied opportunities to undertake hearings We have such a wide range of serious practical legal work activities on offer that you can experience along with your studies. • As an active member of one of choose the level of involvement Indeed, you can even apply to study our projects, you will have the that suits you. Larger commitments an assessed Pro Bono option as part opportunity to help recruit fellow may see you working on a project of your course. students from across the School. for an afternoon a week over a full term with smaller projects involving Pro Bono opportunities include: just one voluntary session during • Three Pro Bono-based Options in the year. The type of involvement the third term of your BPTC. These can vary from staffing the advice are the Free Representation Unit clinic to actually providing a piece Employment Option, the Free of written advice to a client. The Representation Unit Social Security level of experience gained also Option and the Domestic Violence varies between going to court or Option with National Domestic simply sitting in on an interview and Violence (NCDV) McKenzie Friends. observing a lawyer. The choice is This is a great way to combine Pro yours! Bono work with your BPTC • A number of ‘in house’ Pro Bono activities including our own dedicated legal advice clinics (employment and general), the City University Student Union advice clinic and City University Street Law Programme

8 The City Law School Bar Professional Training Course BPTC to LLM Convert your BPTC into an LLM in Professional Legal Skills

At The City Law School we can help Recent dissertation topics include: When will you study? Bar Professional Training Course Training Professional Bar you build your career by completing This course is very flexible. You need • Funding options for civil litigation a professionally focused Master’s to agree a timetable for progress in England and Wales – does level degree. with your supervisor, but this can money buy justice? ensure that research and supervision Our BPTC is taught at Masters • An analysis of the practical use fit in with other demands on your level allowing you to convert the of comparators in discrimination time. You will have a choice of two in Professional claims in Employment Tribunals potential submission dates over a Legal Skills gained on the BPTC into period of a year. • Balancing probabilities – a Masters degree by completing a mathematical and statistical dissertation. The topic you choose It is possible to work remotely if you insights into principles for needs to be professionally focused will not be staying in London.

assessing damages. the Professionals with Practice and can be based on any element of the BPTC. You will be supported • Is alternative dispute resolution What qualification will you get? by research training, high-quality really alternative? Can arbitration The qualification is the full supervision and continuing access meet a client’s needs better than equivalent of a traditional LLM, it to a full range of library and online litigation? simply has a focus on law in practice resources. • Which areas of Sharia law might and the BPTC modules you have realistically be incorporated into already taken replace the taught What will you study? cases? element of a traditional LLM. You will work on a dissertation of 15,000 – 20,000 words on a • The use of logic, rhetoric and Full information about the personally selected, professionally persuasion in trial advocacy application process will be made focused topic, with one-to-one • What can psychological principles available once you begin your support from a supervisor. tell us about the effectiveness of BPTC but please do not hesitate to Appropriate small scale empirical juries? contact us now if you would like to research can be supported. find out more about this excellent opportunity. Current students are working on a range of topics from expert evidence in criminal cases to ADR in commercial cases. We encourage students to look at topics related to pupillage or Pro Bono work but the choice is yours.

www.city.ac.uk/law 9 Recent publications by BPTC staff

The Bar manuals Other texts written by BPTC staff A Practical Approach to Effective As the founding provider of the include: Litigation BPTC (formerly BVC), our bar team “Analyses all the key skills a lawyer at Gray’s Inn lead the market in A Practical Approach to Civil needs to handle a case effectively.” assessing and developing the Procedure Written by Susan Blake way in which future barristers are “A must for any student or Published by Oxford University Press trained. Working closely with the practitioner – from pre-action (2009) Oxford University Press (OUP), our protocols to appeals, all substantive academics even write the textbooks steps are covered with clarity and in The Modern Law of Evidence that are used by most providers refreshingly simple language.” “The authoritative text on in teaching the Bar Professional Written by Professor Stuart Sime contemporary law of evidence and Training Course. Published by Oxford University Press still a vital tool for practitioners and (2013) judges alike.” The “Bar manuals” series includes Written by Professor Adrian Keane a number of titles that cover the A Practical Approach to ADR and Paul McKeown compulsory and elective subjects “The authoritative text on this Published by Oxford University Press taught on the bar course and are emerging area for students and (2014) a critical part of every ’s practitioners alike.” education. You will receive copies of Written by Julie Browne, Susan Blake The Jackson ADR Handbook course manuals as part of your BPTC. and Professor Stuart Sime “It is authoritative. It is readily Published by Oxford University Press accessible. I cannot commend it more Titles in this series include: (2012) highly” – Lord Dyson MR. Written by Susan Blake, Julie Browne Advocacy Blackstone’s Civil Practice and Professor Stuart Sime Company Law in Practice “The go-to text for expert analysis Published by Oxford University Press and guidance on civil litigation in (2013) Conference Skills both the county courts and the Criminal Litigation and Sentencing High Court.” Blackstone’s Guide to the Civil Written by Professor Stuart Sime Justice Reforms 2013 Drafting (authors include: Julie Browne, “This guide is exactly what the Employment Law in Practice Professor Adrian Keane and Lisa profession requires” – Mr Justice Laurenti) Ramsey. Evidence Published by Oxford University Press Written by Professor Stuart Sime and Family Law in Practice (2014) Derek French Published by Oxford University Press Opinion Writing and Case Blackstone’s Criminal Practice (2013) Preparation “The essential guide to criminal Professional Ethics practice and procedure in both the Crown and magistrates’ courts.” Remedies. Authors include Professor Adrian Keane and Peter Hungerford-Welch. For full information on the Published by Oxford University Press publications in this series please visit (2014) the Oxford University Press website: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk Criminal Procedure and Sentencing “This classic text analyses every step of the criminal process from arrest all the way to trial, sentencing and appeal.” Written by Peter Hungerford-Welch Published by Routledge-Cavendish (2014)

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