Health and Social Welfare Law

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By focusing on Health and Social Welfare Law, this LLM provides a breadth and depth of knowledge and understanding that opens up enhanced career choices in the area of the care, protection, management, policy and representation of those who are physically or mentally ill, suffering from a disability, children, elderly persons and other vulnerable persons. The programme offers the opportunity to study the topic within its national, European and international context.

Moreover, you can develop to become lawyers, non-lawyer advocates, social workers and even within the medical profession (including doctors, nurses and administrators and managers) and charitable/voluntary organisations.

Further flexibility is also available - this programme is offered on both a full-time and part-time basis. In addition single modules may also be taken for CPD purposes.

This course will develop your understanding of the contrasting approaches to legal issues. Further it will develop your analytical and theoretical skills through the study of law in its social, economic and political context, and also your capacity to conduct legal research, to analyse critically arguments, theories, concepts and evidence, and to communicate the fruits of such research and analysis clearly, literately and concisely.

What's involved
This course is studied over one year on a full-time basis. You will learn through a combination of lectures, tutorials, LLM specialist seminars and independent study.

Subjects studied include:

Trimester 1

* Medical Law and Ethics
* Child Welfare and the Law
* One *Masters level modules offered within The Business School

Trimester 2

* Disability, Mental Health Rights and the Law
* Law and the Elderly
* One *Masters level modules offered within The Business School

Trimester 3

* Dissertation

*Non-law entrants must study Legal Skills and Research Methods in trimester 1, in place of a Business School Masters level module.

The entry requirement for this course is a UK Honours degree at 2:2 or above. We look for applicants to have a background in any discipline in order to be eligible for the programme; however, it is desirable to have a degree with a substantial Law component. If an applicant has not previously studies law, they will be required to undertake the Legal Skills and Research module as a compulsory part of their programme.We may also consider lesser qualifications if you have sufficient relevant work experience within the industry. If English is not your first language, it is usually required that you sit an English language test in order to gain entry onto our postgraduate programmes. This course requires a higher IELTS 6.5 with no individual component score of less than 6.0 or equivalent. English Language Requirements IELTS band: 6.5 TOEFL iBT® test: 75 IMPORTANT NOTE: Since April 2014 the ETS tests (including TOEFL and TOEIC) are no longer accepted for Tier 4 visa applications to the United Kingdom. The university might still accept these tests to admit you to the university, but if you require a Tier 4 visa to enter the UK and begin your degree programme, these tests will not be sufficient to obtain your Visa. The IELTS test is most widely accepted by universities and is also accepted for Tier 4 visas to the UK- learn more.

We have a selection of funding opportunities available such as the UK postgraduate tuition fee loan (Scottish & EU) and specific scholarships aimed at student from India and across Africa