LLM Legal Practice at University of Winchester

Programme overview

This 1-year full-time or 2-years part-time Master's degree is designed to provide you with a rigorous and challenging postgraduate degree in law that develops an enhanced understanding, and critical awareness of current problems and new insights into the relationship between Law, State and Individual, and the contexts in which the law operates, alongside allowing you to understand and apply the functioning legal knowledge, and the legal skills required by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to undertake the mandatory Solicitors Qualification Examination…

Duration: 1 year full-time; 2 years part-time | Study mode: full-time / part-time | Intake: September | Location: Winchester, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Year 1: Solicitors Legal Knowledge, Solicitors Legal Skills, Law and the State, Law and the Individual, Legal Research Project, Work Placement in Law

Career pathways

The LLM in Legal Practice, with its SQE preparation modules, is specifically designed to support law graduates in their preparation for the SQE exams which are a mandatory requirement for anyone wishing to practice as a solicitor in England and Wales. For law graduates who decide not to pursue a career as a solicitor, our LLM in Legal Practice, as a postgraduate award, provides an intellectually stimulating course which indicates that the graduates have acquired advanced, specialist legal training, which would…

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Application information

Entry requirements

A first or second-class honours degree Normally a first or second-class UK Law Degree (LLB) or a law conversion course such as the GDL or CPE. Applicants with relevant alternative qualifications or professional experience who have an excellent level of foundation legal knowledge may be admitted subject to the programme leader’s discretion. If English is not your first language: IELTS 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in writing or equivalent

Domestic applicants: GBP 12,000 a year (2026/27). Full-time tuition fee. Applies to UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and Republic of Ireland students. Source

International applicants: GBP 17,450 a year (2026/27). Full-time tuition fee. Source

Intake: September

Duration: 1 year full-time; 2 years part-time

Apply through the official page: https://www.winchester.ac.uk/study/how-to-apply/How-to-apply-Postgraduate/

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