To provide observational experience of working in a legal environment; to increase awareness of how the law operates in practice; to develop personal transferable skills.
Students will undertake a 'placement' in a legal environment. There is no formal content. The aim is to:
- provide an observational experience
- increase awareness of how the law operates in practice
- develop personal transferable skills

The work experience is the key strategy in achieving the outcomes supported by three formal tutorials: To develop an action plan for the work experience, to agree research topic in the light of the placement, to monitor progress on the placement and written element, plus supervisory tutorials. The latter are informal, and are to provide support for the reflective element of the module.

Individual Tutorials: (6 hours per student)
There will be 3 'formal' meetings:
1. To develop an action plan for work experience
2. To agree a research topic in the light of the placement
3. To monitor progress on the placement and on the assessment

There will be 3 informal meetings to provide support for the reflective element of the module.

Independent Study (154 hours)
This is indicative as the work experience will take place over a minimum of 15 working days either in one or more blocks or spread over a semester. The student will undertake independent research into the area selected for the research report.

Access to appropriate texts, legislation, case law and academic journals.

On-line resources- Westlaw, LexisNexis and Practical law

Holland J, Webb J, 'Learning Legal Rules' Oxford, Oxford University Press, 6th Edition, 2006

Boyle F, Capps D, Plowden P, Sandford C, 'A practical guide to Lawyering skills' London, Cavendish publishing, 3rd Edition, 2006

Webb J, Maughan C, Maughan M, Boon A, Lawyers' Skills (Legal Practice Course Guide) Paperback

(i) Students must ensure that the work experience provider signs forms confirming that they will support the client appropriately, including the provision of feedback as part of the assessment; and
(ii) A risk assessment has to be carried out, to satisfy the University’s insurers.

1. Manage their own learning, exercise initiative, personal responsibility and demonstrate the learning ability, qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment or further training of a professional or equivalent nature
Reflection

2. Apply the methods and techniques that they have learned to review, consolidate, extend and apply their knowledge and understanding and devise and sustain arguments, using ideas and techniques, some of which are at the forefront of a discipline
Application

3. Accurately deploy established techniques of analysis and enquiry and initiate and carry out projects within a chosen topic. Evaluate use of information literacy, including the ethical use of information in the chosen topic.
Enquiry

4. Communicate and analyse information, ideas, problems, and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences
Communication

5. Describe and comment upon current research, or equivalent advanced scholarship and critically evaluate arguments, assumptions, abstract concepts and data (that may be incomplete), to make judgements
Analysis

Reflective Journal (Learning outcomes 1, 2 and 3). Students will create a reflective diary of their work experience placement(s) in which they actively reflect on how their experiences relate to law in action, and how they have developed transferable employability skills

Personal professional artefact incorporating digital media (Learning outcomes 1, 3 and 4). Students will create a professional profile using any suitable digital medium (such as a LinkedIn profile, business blog or website) thereby demonstrating their digital capabilities as well as enhancing their employability.