On this course you will study a range of modules which may include the following:

• LAW4002 - The English Legal System

  This module provides a general introduction to the operation and fundamental principles of the legal system of England and Wales, enabling students to acquire a basic knowledge of: -The main legal institutions (including the main legal professions) -Sources of law: -Legislation -Case law -European context -The criminal and civil justice systems -Rules of interpretation -Legal services and the funding of legal services. The content remit is that specified by the SRA and BSB for QLDs. The module also enables students to develop awareness of the issues surrounding the rule of law, practical and ethical implications, and to evaluate its operation within society, and to appreciate the social, economic and political contexts and underlying policy issues relating to the operation of the legal system, and their impact. The module covers the Knowledge requirements and some Constitutional Law elements of the Public Law Foundation of Legal Knowledge under the Joint Statement, which is required by the SRA and BSB for a QLD, and the SRA Statement of Legal Knowledge for, "12. Legal system of England and Wales".

• LAW4022 - Contract Law

  This module provides a general introduction to the operation and fundamental principles of the legal system of England and Wales, enabling students to acquire a basic knowledge of: -Formation, including offer and acceptance, consideration, intention to create legal relations, certainty -Variation and promissory estoppel -Privity of contract and rights of third parties -Terms, including terms implied by common law and statute -Interpretation of contracts -Exemption clauses and unfair terms -Vitiating factors: including mistake, misrepresentation, duress and undue influence -Termination of contract for breach or frustration -Remedies: damages, award of an agreed sum, specific performance, injunctions -Restitution for unjust enrichment (especially in the context of termination of a contract), or such other content as may be specified by the SRA and BSB for QLDs. The module also enables students to develop awareness of the issues surrounding contract law, practical and ethical implications, and to evaluate its operation within society, and to appreciate the social, economic and political contexts and underlying policy issues relating to its operation, and their impact. This module will also serve the function of developing practical ability to analyse cases and to apply legal method and legal reasoning to them, in the light of specific needs and instructions. In doing so, this module will have a particular connection to the theoretical and practical work undertaken in LAW4032 Legal Skills. The module covers the Contract and Restitution elements of the Obligations Foundation of Legal Knowledge under the Joint Statement, required by the SRA and BSB for a QLD. It also covers the SRA Statement of Legal Knowledge for "9. Contract Law".

• LAW4032 - Legal Skills

  This module provides students with the skills required to study law at undergraduate level, and to develop the critical and research skills required for both the study and practice of the law. The skills studied will be applied in different contexts through other modules on the degree programme, providing students with the opportunity for progressive development. In particular, students will be introduced to the case study format, legal method and the specific legal application of Knowledge and General Transferable Skills under the Joint Statement as required by the SRA and BSB for a QLD, and the particular skills of: -research -analysis -critical judgement -literacy, technical language and communication -ethical practice (as informed by SRA's Code of Conduct) Though the skills of case analysis and research will inform a range of modules at Level 4, LAW 4022 Contract Law will have the specific role of developing the practical and applied aspect of these skills and this module will be used to reinforce and hone the relevant methods and skills.

• LAW4042 - Public Law

  This module provides a general introduction to the operation and fundamental principles of the legal system of England and Wales, enabling students to acquire a basic knowledge of: -The basic institutions (the Crown and Parliament, central government, devolved institutions, EU institutions and the judiciary) and principles of the British Constitution -The nature, status and procedure for passing primary and delegated legislation -Government accountability (and in particular the relationship between the Government and Parliament) -Parliamentary sovereignty -Separation of powers (including judicial independence) -The rule of law -The place of EU law in the constitution -Judicial control of the Executive, in particular the process and principles of judicial review or such other content as may be specified by the SRA and BSB for QLDs. The module also enables students to develop awareness of the issues surrounding the constitutional and administrative law, and to evaluate their operation within society, and to appreciate the social, economic and political contexts and underlying policy issues, and their impact. The module provides a strong base of learning as a foundation for other related law modules, and is taught so as to: -enable students to become effective independent learners, -to develop students' intellectual/cognitive/'thinking' skills, and to enable students to develop a range of Employability skills, meeting the requirements for Knowledge and General Transferable Skills in the Joint Statement for QLDs. This module covers the Constitutional and Administrative Law elements of Public Law as a Foundation of Legal Knowledge required by the SRA and BSB for a QLD under the Joint Statement, and relevant aspects of the SRA Statement of Legal Knowledge for "11. Constitutional law and EU law (including Human Rights).

• LAW4052 - Law of the European Union

  This module enables students to acquire knowledge and understanding of the main legal principles and issues of the law of the European Union, and covers the place of EU law in the constitution of England and Wales, or such other content as may be specified by the SRA and BSB for QLDs. The module also enables students to develop awareness of the issues surrounding EU Law, practical and ethical implications, and to evaluate its operation within society, and to appreciate the social, economic and political contexts and underlying policy issues relating to its operation, and their impact. In covering the module content, the seminars will also provide training and support for key transferable skills: to carry out independent tasks and research to a reasonable level as a basis for further development in subsequent study; to consider how legal principles can be applied to both actual and hypothetical facts, and to enhance relevant Employability skills in the context of the subject area. The module covers the Law of the European Union Foundation of Legal Knowledge under the Joint Statement as required by the SRA and BSB for a QLD, and relevant aspects of the SRA Statement of Legal Knowledge for "11. Constitutional law and EU law (including Human Rights)".

• LAW4992 - Ethics, Society and Employability

  The module aims overall to introduce students to the social justice mission of Leeds Trinity University and invites them to consider a range of contemporary social issues, as well as their own personal and academic development. The module will help students to engage with a broad range of ethical topics and perspectives that are relevant to their specific programme. It will help students transition in to higher education and introduce the learning and teaching approaches at Leeds Trinity, allowing students to integrate their own learning from personal experience with an ability to engage in an empathic, ethical and compassionate way with the wider world. Core topics may include: -The LTU mission -Diversity -Social justice -The Environment -Professional and career aspirations -Preparation for a work placement As it is a University wide module, we will be using a shared repository of materials which may be helpful to staff teams.

On this course you will study a range of modules which may include the following:

• LAW5012 - Land Law

  This module enables students to acquire knowledge and understanding of the main legal principles and issues of the English law of real property, and covers: -Key concepts of real property -The property legislation of 1925; registered and unregistered land; Land Registration Act 2002 -Estates and interests in land and their transfer: freeholds, leases, mortgages, easements; and rights over land: licences, tenancies at will -The trust of land and co-ownership -Adverse possession -The landlord/tenant relationship; leasehold covenants; enfranchisement -Real property and human rights -Tax considerations relevant to property transactions, or such other content as may be specified by the SRA and BSB for QLDs. The module also enables students to develop awareness of the issues surrounding the law of real property, practical and ethical implications, and to evaluate its operation within society, and to appreciate the social, economic and political contexts and underlying policy issues relating to its operation, and their impact. In covering the module content, the seminars will also provide training and support for key transferable skills: to carry out independent tasks and research to a reasonable level as a basis for further development in subsequent study; to consider how legal principles can be applied to both actual and hypothetical facts, and to enhance relevant Employability skills in the context of the subject area. The module covers the Property Law Foundation of Legal Knowledge under the Joint Statement as required by the SRA and BSB for a QLD, and the SRA Statement of Legal Knowledge for "5. Property".

• LAW5022 - Criminal Law

  This module enables students to acquire knowledge and understanding of the main legal principles and issues of English criminal law, and covers: -Elements of offences - actus reus and mens rea. Factors affecting culpability: e.g. insanity, automatism and intoxication -Capacity to commit offences -Modes of liability: secondary participation, vicarious and corporate liability -Specific offences: public order offences, fatal, non-fatal and sexual offences against the person, property offences -Inchoate offences: assisting and encouraging crime, attempt and conspiracy -Defences: self-defence, necessity, duress. Partial defences to murder loss of control, diminished responsibility -Evidence, including burden and standard of proof, bad character and hearsay -The European Convention of Human Rights, particularly articles 5 and 6, or such other content as may be specified by the SRA and BSB for QLDs. The module also enables students to develop awareness of the issues surrounding criminal law, practical and ethical implications, and to evaluate its operation within society, and to appreciate the social, economic and political contexts and underlying policy issues relating to its operation, and their impact. In covering the module content, the seminars will also provide training and support for key transferable skills: to carry out independent tasks and research to a reasonable level as a basis for further development in subsequent study; to consider how legal principles can be applied to both actual and hypothetical facts, and to enhance relevant Employability skills in the context of the subject area. The module covers the Criminal Law Foundation of Legal Knowledge under the Joint Statement as required by the SRA and BSB for a QLD, and the Criminal Law aspects of the SRA Statement of Legal Knowledge under "7. Criminal law and evidence".

• LAW5032 - Torts

  This module enables students to acquire knowledge and understanding of the main legal principles and issues of the English law of Torts, and covers: -Negligence: -duty of care and breach of duty of care -causation and remoteness of damage -problematic areas, including pure economic loss and psychiatric illness damage -Breach of statutory duty and product liability -Nuisance, and the rule in Rylands v Fletcher -Trespass to the person -Defamation -Vicarious liability -Remedies, including damages and injunctions -Defences, including consent and contributory negligence, or such other content as may be specified by the SRA and BSB for QLDs. The module also enables students to develop awareness of the issues surrounding the law of Torts, practical and ethical implications, and to evaluate its operation within society, and to appreciate the social, economic and political contexts and underlying policy issues relating to its operation, and their impact. In covering the module content, the seminars will also provide particular training and support for key legal skills: to carry out independent research in relation to different types of cases and needs; to consider how legal principles can be applied to both actual and hypothetical facts, and to be able to do so taking either side of a case. In undertaking the practical development of these skills, this module will have a close link to LAW5042 Advanced Legal Skills, where the principles of research and the nature of arguing both sides of a case will be covered. The module covers the Tort aspects of the Obligations Law Foundation of Legal Knowledge under the Joint Statement as required by the SRA and BSB for a QLD, and the SRA Statement of Legal Knowledge for "6. Torts".

• LAW5042 - Advanced Legal Skills

  This module further develops the skills required for the application, as well as the practice, of law, building on the LAW4042 Legal Skills module, and other Level 4 modules which applied legal skills. The skills studied will be applied in different contexts through other modules on the degree programme at both Level 5 and Level 6, providing students with the opportunity for progressive development. Students will also be given opportunity to practise the skills in applied contexts, such as client interviewing, advocacy, on either side of an argument, and advanced legal research, and opportunities for doing so will be provided particularly within LAW5032 Torts. The module meets the requirements in the Joint Statement for a QLD, by addressing the specified Knowledge and General Transferable Skills.

• LAW5052 - Professional Development and Placement

  This module follows on from LAW4992 Ethics, Society and Employability. The module includes a programme preparing students for the placement: Introduction to Professional Development Planning and Placements at Level 5; Interview with Placement Tutor; Placement with suitable organisation(s), normally six weeks in total. Completion of Portfolio and Report (including Career Research project). Workshop sessions guide and support the students through the process of choosing and applying for appropriate placements. There will be a series of sessions preparing the students for the placement. These will normally include discussion of, and lectures on, wider theoretical and practical reading on work, and presentations from staff in the Employer and Partnership Office (EPO) and Careers. Topics include job satisfaction, relevant fields of employment, definitions of employment, professionalism, higher-order graduate skills, team work, careers planning, employability skills, briefings on EPO procedures, and skills and preparation for attachment/assessment.

• LAW5072 - Human Rights and Social Justice

  Human rights are established through social norms, and legislation at the national, regional, and international levels. The interaction between these levels is complex and this provides an opportunity for students to develop critical thinking and independent judgement. This module provides a general introduction to human rights law, enabling students to acquire a basic knowledge of the Human Rights Act 1998 and key principles of anti-discrimination legislation. Students on the module will consider issues of social justice and discrimation in the light both of comparative law and of critical legal theory. This module explores human rights through consideration of key theories and texts and then encourages students to apply and test their findings within current debates about issues of justice and equality. Issues of race, gender and economic injustice that reflect tension between universal principle, and regional and national application, will be integral, but there should be scope to enable consideration of relevant topical issues.

On this course you will study a range of modules which may include the following:

• BMM6422 - Business and Management Strategy

  This module introduces students to the analysis of the inter-related nature of the environment in which business organisations exist and the implications for the way they work. Students will analyse in detail models of industry analysis, the main theoretical strategic planning models, the use and application of financial information relevant to different groups of stakeholders and the implications and influence of cultural and ethical issues for strategic planning. Students will also focus on the effective strategies for organisational competition and growth, how strategy is formulated and implemented and the implications of strategy to the organisation and its stakeholders.

• BMM6462 - Business Ethics

  The module comprises four main themes, which will be introduced to students as follows: the foundations of business ethics covers why business ethics matter, moral values and ethical theories relevant to business in a global context. Framing business ethics examines the concepts of social responsibility, stakeholder relations, sustainability and corporate citizenship in business and organisations. Contextualising business ethics includes emerging ethical dilemmas such as the ethics of e-communication, ethical consumerism, sustainable consumption and social accounting. Finally, ethical management in practice evaluates key functional areas, including ethical decision-making and the tools and techniques of business ethics management.

• BMM6492 - Corporate Sustainability

  This module introduces students to the business case for sustainability, focusing on the key principles of sustainability, the strategic frameworks for implementing corporate sustainability and environmental compliance. Students will measure environmental, social and economic impacts and performance, including market and non-market impacts and key performance indicators. This module will also analyse in detail corporate sustainability tools, environmental auditing including EMAS, ISO1400 certification and carbon foot printing, social and environmental risk assessment, product life-cycle analysis, eco-labelling and sustainable branding, as well as external sustainability reporting and verification.

• BMM6582 - e-Business and e-Marketing

  This module is intended to be a comprehensive guide to key aspects of analysing and deploying digital strategies and technologies within an organisation in the UK and globally. Building on traditional business and marketing theories and concepts, the module details a structured approach to applying modern technologies for management and marketing operations, particularly in relation to international business. The module will cover key topics such as e-business (operations, logistics, supply chains), e-marketing, situation analysis for e-marketing, objective setting, e-marketing strategy, electronic marketing and the marketing mix, e-marketing strategy implementation, as well as control and management of e-marketing.

• CYP6072 - Child and Youth Justice

  The course explores a range of themes, including: - the historical development of youth justice and the - social construction of the youth offender; - contemporary youth justice strategies and the continuities and ruptures with past approaches; - the links between policy, practice and outcomes; - key debates around regulating and controlling young people.

• JOU6022 - Law for Journalists

  The main principles of English law affecting the media, including the laws pertaining to contempt, copyright, defamation, privacy, human rights and court reporting. The module will cover key legal areas which crop up in day-to-day reporting and also reflect changes in legislation / case law which impact on journalists.

• LAW6002 - Equity and Trusts

  This module enables students to acquire a depth of knowledge and understanding of the main legal principles and issues of the law of equity and the law of trusts, and covers: -Difference between legal and equitable interests -Creation of express trusts -Resulting trusts -Constructive trusts -Charitable and non-charitable purpose trusts -Trustees: their appointment, removal, powers, duties and liabilities -Fiduciary duties and remedies for breach of these duties -Knowing receipt of trust property and dishonest assistance in breach of trust or fiduciary duty -The rights, remedies and powers of beneficiaries, including proprietary remedies after tracing -Equitable remedies: specific performance, injunctions, rescission, rectification and proprietary remedies, or such other content as may be specified by the SRA and BSB for QLDs. The module also enables students to develop awareness of the issues surrounding equity and trusts, practical and ethical implications, and to evaluate the operation of equity and trusts within society, and to appreciate the social, economic and political contexts and underlying policy issues relating to their operation, and their impact. In covering the module content, the seminars will also provide particular training and support for key legal skills: to carry out independent research in relation to different types of cases and needs; to consider how legal principles can be applied to both actual and hypothetical facts, and to be able to do so taking either side of a case. In undertaking the practical development of these skills, this module will develop skills in legal analysis, research and argumentation that have been formed and trained in both LAW5042 Advanced Legal Skills and in LAW5032 Torts. The module covers the Equity and the Law of Trusts Foundation of Legal Knowledge under the Joint Statement as required by the SRA and BSB for a QLD, and the SRA Statement of Legal Knowledge under "10. Trusts and equitable wrongs".

• LAW6012 - Professional Learning Through Work

  This module enables students to retain an element of work-based learning in their final year programme, by spending time working with an employer during the year, focussing on completing a specific project for that employer and reflecting on what they have learned from this experience. Students will be expected to negotiate a project with their employer or prior placement provider organisation that meets the needs of both the employer and Leeds Trinity University. The specific requirement for this module is that the work undertaken be in the field of local government or regional politics. The work undertaken should help students to explore career pathways open to them in politics (such as, internships, employment in councils and other local authorities), so that they can make informed and purposeful decisions about their future.

• LAW6022 - Employment Law

  This law option module enables students to acquire a depth of knowledge and understanding of the main legal principles and issues of employment law. The aim of this module is to capture significant contemporary issues in, and in relation to Employment Law, including case law and changes in law and policy. The content of the module, which is not specified by either the SRA or BSB, will therefore be tailored to topics of current interest to ensure both currency and interest. The module also enables students to develop awareness of the issues surrounding employment law, practical and ethical implications, and to evaluate its operation within society, and to appreciate the social, economic and political contexts and underlying policy issues relating to its operation, and their impact.

• LAW6032 - Family Law

  This law option module enables students to acquire a depth of knowledge and understanding of the main legal principles and issues of family law. The aim of this module is to capture significant contemporary issues in, and in relation to Family Law, including case law and changes in law and policy. The content of the module, which is not specified by either the SRA or BSB, will therefore be tailored to topics of current interest. A second feature of the module is that it enables students to develop awareness of the issues surrounding family law, practical and ethical implications, and to evaluate its operation within society, and to appreciate the social, economic and political contexts and underlying policy issues relating to its operation, and their impact.

• LAW6042 - Comparative Law

  This law option module enables students to acquire a depth of understanding of the principles and methodology of comparative law, as well as knowledge of the civil law and other legal systems. The module also enables students to develop awareness of the issues surrounding comparative law techniques, practical and ethical implications arising through comparisons between legal systems, and to evaluate the operation of legal systems within society, particularly in terms of social, economic and political contexts. The module is taught so as to: -equip students to carry out independent tasks and research to a high level of aptitude; -further develop students' intellectual/cognitive/'thinking' skills, enabling students to develop arguments and possible solutions to legal problems; -further develop students' Employability skills and their impact in the context of the subject area.

• LAW6052 - Law Research Report

  Students will define a research project of their choice, in consultation with an appointed member of staff; formulate a proposal; complete the project, under the supervision of the appointed member of staff; and complete a dissertation based on the project, appropriately presented and supported by scholarly apparatus.

• PTC6022 - Democracy and Democratization

  This module explores a range of definitions of democracy and the variety of democratic practices: including deliberative democracy; civic republicanism; participatory democracy; mixed constitutions, and communitarianism. The historical and cultural contexts for democratisation will be explored and competing theories of democracy will be applied to the analysis of specific case studies. Students will be encouraged to explore democratisation from diverse perspectives (Western and beyond the West; gender inequality, rich and poor) and to consider the relation between theoretical explanation and specific cultural and historical experiences.

• PTC6072 - Counter-Terrorism and the State

  The first part of the module takes a historical and comparative view of state responses to various types of terrorism acts from the 1960s to the present day. Students explore what has been expected from and required of state counter-terrorism and how various reforms to the ability and capacity to respond effectively have helped shape the current situation. It also reflects upon the public images of counter-terrorism that have arisen and their influence. The second part of the module examines the contemporary challenges for state security operations and the range of activities that the state is expected to sustain, from surveillance; border agency checks; sharing intelligence; role profiling; detention on suspicion; and, since 2005, the broader 'responsibility to protect'(R2P). This diversifying portfolio of activities, each becoming increasingly specialised, poses challenges in relation to state budgets and ethical notions about dignity and human rights.

• PTC6082 - Freedom of Speech

  The module is organised around the issues connecting freedom of speech and blasphemy. This fraught area illustrates a range of possible faultlines in the relation between religion and the state. In recent times public controversy, for example within Europe, has attended the display of religious symbols; the wearing of the clothing, such as hijab; the response to perceived blasphemy in publications and images; and the right to withold commercial services on religious grounds. Issues of hate speech and taking offence will also be considered. Students first explore ways in which a selected topic has been framed and analysed within the discipline of global politics and then these academic analyses are related to case studies that demonstrate the complex and contested nature of the social and ethical issues involved. Through this lens, this course will offer an overview of the various debates around, and theorisations of the nature of secularism and the role of religion in the public sphere, and the nature of speech in relation to key aspects of identity (gender; nationality; race; and class).

• SOC6022 - Prisons and Punishment

  This module will complete the strand of modules on the criminal justice process from profiling and suspicion to arrest, the courtroom, incarceration and post-prison care. It introduces students to a range of ways that the nature of criminality has been related to the process of punishment, both historically and in a global context. The first part of the module explores a range of readings in penal theory and explores the diverse ways in which punishment has functioned within socieites, as a social warning to others, as a means of reforming criminal behaviour, and as a way of removing anti-social elements from society. Case studies will be used to relate theory to practice, but also to help identify ways in which key social perspectives about punishment are at once historically related to governmental policies and the organisation of key institutions, but also persistant across time and place. The second part of the module will explore ways in which governments have sought to reduce the use of prisons, either through alternative forms of rehabilitation or social punishments, such as community service. The conflicting justifications for these initiatives are related to the present prison 'crisis' and students will be expected to deploy ethical and critical insight to analyse the difficulties facing penology today.

• SOC6082 - Critical Criminology

  This module will provide an advanced introduction to critical criminological theory. Critical criminology is a heavily theoretical branch of criminology which asks us to 'speak truth to power'. Critical criminologists identify the injustices that can be found within both wider society and more acutely within the criminal justice system. This module will ask students to re-think about crime, deviance and crime control from the perspective of social justice, state accountability, and to consider decarceration as the ultimate goal in securing 'justice'. This module will be particularly useful for students considering progressing to post-graduate study.