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The College of Legal Practice
11 September 2025

Announcement of agreement with University of Leeds

The College of Legal Practice
Published on 11 September 2025

The College of Legal Practice is delighted to announce that it has today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the School of Law at the University of Leeds.

Graduates of the School of Law will now receive preferential rates on standalone SQE1 and SQE2 courses offered by The College, and on the LLM in Legal Practice and GDL (Law conversion) courses. These professional online programmes will give University of Leeds’s students a head start in progressing their career aspirations to become solicitors.

Professor Alex Nicholson, Director of Student Education, School of Law, University of Leeds states, “I am delighted that the School of Law has formalised its relationship with The College in this way. Many of our graduates choose to go on to qualify as solicitors and this Memorandum of Understanding makes that career pathway more accessible, which is good news for our students and good news for the legal profession.’.”

Dr Giles Proctor, CEO of the College adds “I’m very pleased that we can offer this postgraduate career opportunity for the first time to the University of Leeds’s students. Through both the LLM in Legal Practice and the SQE preparation courses, we can ensure that they have fantastic and affordable accredited legal education opportunities to be fully prepared and ready to pass the SQE exams.”

Background 

The College of Legal Practice delivers accredited and flexible SQE preparation courses from £2,200. The College’s LLM in Legal Practice offers a Masters in Law qualification that is eligible for a Master’s loan, with course fees of £7,245 for 25-26.  

All the College’s courses are fully online, with a high level of personal supervision and feedback and highly rated by students. 

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