Legal education in the United Kingdom#England.2C Wales and Northern Ireland
The legal education in England and Wales referred to the necessary training for the activity in the legal profession in England and Wales.
- 2.2.1 Bar Professional Training Course
- 2.2.2 pupillage
Academic section
A Study of law in England to this day not a prerequisite for the exercise of legal profession. Among the most important judges of the English legal history to find many who have never completed a law degree at a university: Lord Diplock chemist, Lord Wilberforce had studied classical antiquity science, Lord Denning was initially mathematician. For the career as a solicitor at all no study is necessary for admission to the bar at least some academic study. About Drawing continental observers see why the legal training in England as a still purely practical training for university studies " is not only not necessary, but downright harmful. "
Nevertheless, the majority of English lawyers graduated from law school today, at least. Serves the jurisprudential study of the preparation for a law career, it is typically with a Bachelor of Laws, completed in Oxford and Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts. A further study with Master ( LL.M. ) or even doctorate ( Ph.D.) is unusual - if not a hindrance - and usually serves only to prepare for an academic career.
Occupation Preparatory section
A career as a judge, as in Germany does not exist in England. Judge may be, who was successful as a lawyer for many years. Therefore, the pre-employment section is geared solely to the training as a lawyer in their two versions. The monitoring of the training is done not by the state but by the respective professional bodies: the Inns of Court and the Law Society.
Solicitor
Legal Practice Course ( LPC)
The training station in the legal practice course is designed by the Law Society and continues in full -time study year. In contrast to the LL.M this is not in-depth academic knowledge but practical vocational skills are taught.
Training Contract
The last stage of training to become a solicitor 's training contract with a law firm ( law firm ), formerly known as articled clerkship.
Barrister
Bar Professional Training Course
The training to become a barrister begins with a one-year training, the Bar Professional Training Course ( Bar Vocational Course prior to 2010 ) at the Inns of Court Law School in London.
Pupillage
Subsequently, the budding lawyer for one year as a student at one of the bar must Inns of Court enroll. During this pupillage earned the first pupil under the guidance of a pupil masters of practical experience. Furthermore, there are 12 (formerly 24 ) obligatory dinner, so-called dining terms. These were earlier than the opportunity for contact between judges, aspiring and practicing lawyers, their sense of the high number of students is heavily scrutinized for today:
"Today it is difficult to find any student who can see any value or utility in the ritual of dining in hall. The food, it is said, is poor or scanty or both, and the conversation does no more than pass the time; but the Inn requires it, and so one must go through the pointless ceremony. "