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Regulations for the Degrees of Bachelor of Laws, Bachelor of Laws (European Legal Studies) and Bachelor of Laws (International Legal Studies)
For the purpose of these Regulations, 'the Board of Examiners' refers to examiners as constituted at Board of Examiners' meetings in June and September or, where appropriate, at the School Board following the relevant meeting of the Board of Examiners.
All units involved in the undergraduate and postgraduate taught courses referred to below are credit-rated in accordance with the principles contained in the CATS Guide and Regulations (see Section IV). Details of how the CATS arrangements apply to each course are included in the relevant student handbooks.
- The degrees of Bachelor of Laws, Bachelor of Laws (European Legal Studies), and Bachelor of Laws (International Legal Studies) may be awarded with honours.
- The course of study for the degree of Bachelor of Laws may extend over two, three or four years; the two year course is for accelerated entrants (see Regulations 23 to 27); the four year course leads to the degree of Bachelor of Laws (European Legal Studies) or the degree of Bachelor of Laws (International Legal Studies) (see Regulations 4 to 5 and 15).
- In order to qualify for the degree of Bachelor of Laws a candidate must have:
- satisfied the requirements for admission to degree courses as specified in Section IV of the General Regulations;
- followed a course of study in accordance with the Regulations, and
- satisfactorily completed the prescribed examinations which may include course work and viva voce assessment.
- A candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Laws (European Legal Studies) or for the degree of Bachelor of Laws (International Legal Studies) shall, in addition to the requirements of 3 above, be required to follow a course of study abroad for such period and under such conditions as may be approved by School Board. Normally the course of study abroad will last for one academic year following the second year of study.
- Any student wishing to study for the degree of Bachelor of Laws (European Legal Studies) or for the degree of Bachelor of Laws (International Legal Studies) must apply to do so at the end of the first year of study, and this application is subject to approval by the School Board.
- The subjects to be studied in the first year of the course shall be:
Legal Method
Constitutional Law
Criminal Law
Law of Contract
Property I
- Subject to Regulations 9, 10 and 11 the subjects to be studied in the second year of the course shall be:
Law of Tort
Property II
Law of the European Union
Plus one of the following:
Commercial Sales
Criminology (2nd year only)
Family Law
Health Care Law
Law, Government and Administration
Evidence and Procedure
Public International Law
- Subject to Regulations 9, 10 and 11 the subjects to be studied in the final year of the course shall be:
Legal Research and Writing (examined by dissertation)
Plus any three of the following not already taken in the second year of the course:
Admiralty Law
Carriage of Goods by Sea
Comparative Civil Liberties
Commercial Sales
Company Law
Conflict of Laws
Environmental Law
Evidence and Procedure
Family Law
Health Care Law
Information Technology Law
Intellectual Property Law
International Protection of Human Rights
Jurisprudence
Law, Government and Administration
Law of Unjust Enrichment
Legal French
Public International Law
Revenue Law
Social Security Law
In place of one such unit, a candidate may choose two half-options from the following list, provided not more than one is studied in a single semester:
Comparative European Law
Child Support Law
Housing Law
Immigration Law
Penal Policy Making
Youth Justice
The following half options may run if the full option (in brackets) is not running that year in order to provide as much choice as possible to students.
Admiralty (Admiralty)
European Human Rights Law (International Protection of Human Rights)
Law and Medical Ethics (Health Care)
Revenue (Revenue)
Child Law (Family)
Information Technology Law (IT Law)
- The outline of the content of each subject shall be specified in course Regulations. The availability of options is dependent on staffing and timetabling constraints and it cannot be guaranteed that every option will be available in any particular year. Additional options may be made available from time to time in the second or final years with the approval of the School Board. Where options are available it may be necessary to limit the number of candidates taking a particular course.
- The selection of second and final year options by each candidate shall be subject to the prior approval of the Head of School who may also, in exceptional cases, permit a candidate to study in the second year of the course an option or options which would otherwise be available only in the final year of the course.
- Where in accordance with Ordinance 7.2 subjects completed at other places of learning by a candidate are counted as equivalent to examinations in the course for the Bachelor of Laws, the School Board may permit such a candidate to qualify for the degree by following such a course of study and completing such examinations as it shall specify.
- Candidates shall not normally be entitled to present themselves for any examination unless they have regularly attended and performed the prescribed work of the course to the satisfaction of the Head of the School. For the purpose of this Regulation, examination shall include all methods of assessment. Candidates' attention is also drawn to the University's General Regulation 6 concerning non-attendance.
- At the first year examination, which shall ordinarily be held in May/June, candidates shall be examined in all subjects studied during the first year of the course. No candidate shall be allowed to proceed to the second year of the course unless the candidate has satisfied the Board of Examiners at the first year examination.
- At the second year examination, which shall ordinarily be held in May/June, candidates shall be examined in all subjects studied during the second year of the course. No candidate shall be allowed to proceed to the third year of the course unless the candidate has satisfied the Board of Examiners in the second year examination.
- At the final year examination, ordinarily held in May/June, candidates shall be examined in all the subjects studied in the final year of the course. In accordance with Regulation 4, candidates studying for the LLB (European Legal Studies) or for the degree of Bachelor of Laws (International Legal Studies) will be required to have completed successfully the course of study abroad.
- Each candidate shall submit the title of his/her dissertation (the assessed component of the Legal Research and Writing course) at a time to be specified by the Unit Co-ordinator on behalf of the School Board, normally at the beginning of Week 6 of the first semester. Completed dissertations, which shall be typewritten, must be lodged with the School Office by such date as shall be specified by the Unit Co-ordinator, normally the last Friday of the second term of the final year.
- A list of final year candidates who have satisfied the Board of Examiners will be issued with the names arranged in alphabetical order within the following classes: first class honours, second class honours (in two divisions), third class honours.
Resit Regulations
- Every candidate shall have an automatic right to resit all of the papers taken in a particular year once during his/her undergraduate course. No such candidate who is permitted to resit an examination in the following year shall be allowed to repeat that year as an internal student save with the permission of the School Board. When a candidate resits an examination in the following year the candidate shall normally be required to take the papers set for that occasion regardless of any change of syllabus.
- A candidate who resits the first or second year examination, by exercising his/her automatic right, shall do so in the supplementary examination ordinarily to be held in August/September of the same year. If a candidate satisfies the Board of Examiners at such supplementary examination the candidate shall proceed to the next year of the course. Subject to Regulation 22 below, failure to satisfy the Board of Examiners in that examination shall lead to termination of the candidate's degree programme.
- A candidate who fails to reach the required standard in the third year examination and who resits the examination by exercising his/her automatic right shall do so at the next available examination. A candidate who resits such examination shall also be required to present a fresh dissertation in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 16.
- Every candidate shall be entitled to retake a single paper in the first or second year examination. The maximum mark that may be awarded on the retake of a single subject shall be 40%. This shall not affect a candidate's automatic right to resit under Regulation 18. In a case where a candidate fails a retake paper, to which no medical or other exceptional and substantial circumstances apply, the Board of Examiners may exceptionally grant the candidate one single further opportunity to retake that paper at the next available examination without invoking the automatic right of resit. In reaching its decision the Board of Examiners will take into account all the circumstances including the quality of the previous examination performance, the attendance record of the candidate and the practicalities of the case.
- Where a fail mark has been recorded by the Board of Examiners and where medical or other exceptional and substantial circumstances have affected a candidate's performance, the candidate may be granted another attempt at the examination or part thereof without recording the previous attempt provided, in the opinion of the Board of Examiners, this is considered appropriate. In the absence of such circumstances, where a candidate fails the examination under the automatic right of resit, an exceptional discretionary resit of the entire examination may be granted. In reaching its decision the Board of Examiners will take into account the overall quality of that resit performance, whether the candidate had the benefit of an internal rather than external resit and, if so, the attendance record of the candidate. This Regulation will also apply mutatis mutandis to a candidate who has exhausted the automatic right of resit by passing an examination in a previous year, who later is deemed to have failed more than one paper in the examination for a subsequent year of the course.
Accelerated Degree
- The School Board may, at its discretion, deem a candidate who has graduated at a university in the
United Kingdom, or is the holder of a degree recognised for this purpose by Senate, to be an advanced student and to qualify for the degree of Bachelor of Laws on completion of the prescribed course. This will be studied in accordance with the above Regulations and Regulations 24 to 27 below and shall extend over not less than two academic years. The decision to grant accelerated student status will normally be taken before entry and students may, at the end of Year 1, with the benefit of academic tutor's advice, elect to complete the programme in two years or in three years..
- The subjects to be studied in the first year of the course shall be:
Legal Method
Constitutional Law
Criminal Law
Law of Contract
Property I
- Subject to Regulations 9, 10 and 11 the subjects to be studied in the second year of the course shall be:
Legal Research and Writing (examined by dissertation)
Law of Tort
Property II
Law of the European Union
- The outline of the content of each subject shall be specified in course Regulations. The availability of options is dependent on staffing and timetabling constraints and it cannot be guaranteed that every option will be available in any particular year. Additional options may be made available from time to time with the approval of the School Board. Where options are available it may be necessary to limit the number of candidates taking a particular course.
Automatic Right to Resit
- Where an advanced entrant is exercising the automatic right to resit in respect of the second year of the examination the candidate shall be treated as a final year student under Regulation 20 above.
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