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The degree counts towards completion of the academic stage, you can't just walk into the high court and say "right, who am I defending today?".

There is a further period called a vocational stage or something (I didn't read the details, I will in 2011)

I am not sure what will happen after the course ends. Can you be a practising solicitor with a criminal conviction?
 
Originally posted by Phil Waters@Jan 12 2005, 05:01 PM
I wonder why it is going to take me 6 years then. Maybe it's the way it is arranged with OU.
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The OU say it will take 6 years as that is based on studying part time, not full time. As Ian said, it took him 3 years but he was a full time student at the time. The OU calculate that if you are only studying part time, you can only complete one module per year.
 
I found studying case Law as dull as ditchwater and I'm not sure how Phil will find it.

Remember, Law degrees can produce human beings like Ardross, arrogant, acerbic, able to bore you to death on the subject of fortified beverages at a distance of 250 paces, but at least having the merit of invariably possessing a well-stocked pantry. :lol:
 
Originally posted by BrianH@Jan 12 2005, 09:24 PM
A degree in law does not on its own qualify you to practice law
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however a criminal record will stop you (I think anyway - been a while since I looked at that)
 
If that's true, and I think it probably is, then what does that say for the rehabilitation of offenders? Are they all for it except where it concerns them?

Them being all those professionally associated with the law.

Infact, why would it be not acceptable for someone to have committed an offence in the past to become a solicitor?

Utterly ridiculous.
 
From what I can remember of "full time" university, you are only able to study part time because half the day is taken up travelling to and from university and sitting through 3 or 4 one hour "lectures", copying notes from the blackboard which the lecturer is copying from a book. You then go home and tear up the notes (you have the book anyway) after which you can get down to some real study.

Of course if you don't attend the "lectures" you don't get your class ticket to sit the subject exam. So much time wasted just to justify the employment of a division of would be intellectuals. Tradition though, isn't it? I hate f*cking tradition.
 
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