Bachelor of Laws (Honours) - Law with Criminal Justice (Placement Year) (MCM2)

The Brunel Law with Criminal Justice LLB gives students the opportunity to earn a law degree with specialist knowledge in the field of criminal law and criminal justice.

Along with the requirements of the traditional LLB degree students will learn substantive criminal law and how the criminal justice system works in practice and procedure.

Importantly, students will be encouraged to use this knowledge to think critically about crime: its origins, its impact on society and the most effective strategies to combat it.

Brunel offers two study options. Students can choose three years full-time, or four years full-time with a one-year professional placement that will give them hands-on experience in a legal practice.

All of Brunel's students have careers advisers with whom they can discuss career ideas with and who can offer guidance on placements and further study options throughout the duration of their time at Brunel.

The solicitors qualification route will change from 1 September 2021. To qualify as a solicitor students will need a degree and to pass the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE), Parts 1 and 2. The Brunel LLB provides a solid grounding in the core legal subjects aspiring solicitors need to know. There will be a transitional period applicable to students who have completed, started, accepted an offer of a place or paid a non-refundable deposit by 21 September 2021 (inclusive) for a qualifying law degree (QLD) as long as they started their course by 31 December 2021. These students will have had the option of taking either the 'QLD route' or the 'SQE route'. Brunel LLB programme is a QLD for these purposes. Those students who opted for the QLD route by 1 September 2021 will have until 31 December 2031 to qualify as a solicitor, as long as courses still remain available. To qualify as a barrister students will need a law degree which covers the foundations of legal knowledge subjects, which the Brunel LLB does.