LLB in law at Griffith college

Shane80

hi im thinking of doing a LLB in law at Griffith college , I was wondering would you need a laptop for your studies and homework etc. and do you have to do essays for homework etc

2rs

I did the LLB in Portobello, which is along the same format as GCD, as the law school there was set up by former GCD lecturers I understand.

Anyway, lecture notes tend to be in the form of handouts and dictation. If your typing speed is quick enough and you think you wont need to hit the delete button too often then you will be ok with the laptop. I did not find it necessary though and went the route of writing out the notes.

With regards to homework, you tend to get one assignment per subject throughout the course of the year, and about 3-4 weeks to prepare and hand in the work (usually a 2500 to 3000 word essay). Remember this is the format followed in Portobello, but I heard GCD is similar.

EdgarAllenPoo

I'm heading to GCD(LLB) in September, I got a good bit of information from them last year. The fees have gone up this year from €5300 to €5600. I can't remember when they said they were sending out the registration packs, anyone able to throw some light on that for me?

Shane80

2rs wrote:

I did the LLB in Portobello, which is along the same format as GCD, as the law school there was set up by former GCD lecturers I understand.

Anyway, lecture notes tend to be in the form of handouts and dictation. If your typing speed is quick enough and you think you wont need to hit the delete button too often then you will be ok with the laptop. I did not find it necessary though and went the route of writing out the notes.

With regards to homework, you tend to get one assignment per subject throughout the course of the year, and about 3-4 weeks to prepare and hand in the work (usually a 2500 to 3000 word essay). Remember this is the format followed in Portobello, but I heard GCD is similar.

Hi,

Thank you for your responds , how problematical did you find the assignment and is your assignments are on your notes (can the be used and notes form your books etc ) and does any grade what you get in this assignment go to the summer test etc like a percentage of 20% etc

2rs

Shane80 wrote:

Hi,

Thank you for your responds , how problematical did you find the assignment and is your assignments are on your notes (can the be used and notes form your books etc ) and does any grade what you get in this assignment go to the summer test etc like a percentage of 20% etc

The assignments were fine and were based on your class notes, but you were still required to reference research from other sources such as books, internet, court case reports, newspaper articles etc.

When I did the LLB 25% of the end of year mark in each subject was based on how well you did in your assignment

johnnysmurfman

Do you have a degree already? How old are you? Depending on these 2 issues you might just be able to go on to study in Blackhall or King's Inns without an LLB. It's of little value really as a well connected person with a degree can qualify as a solicitor without a BL or an LLB, and regularly do.

mr.twist

the reason LLB's and BCL and pretty much any undergraduate law degree are not required to qualify as a solicitor these days is due to the Fe-1s which are now regarded as the standard required to get a training contract- ie standard for these exams quite a level higher than LLbs and BCLs. (ask law students of which i am one) - this is the reason collages are now setting up mixed degrees such as Business and legal etc- firms now tend to go for more rounded academics- especially with funds law and coporate law booming-

I agree- connections are damn handy- but my point is that law degrees do not hold near as much 'weight' as they used to in the past.

2rs

mr.twist wrote:

I agree- connections are damn ahndy- but my point is that law degrees do not hold near as much 'weight' as they used to in the past.

Agreed, if you are going to do the LLB it should probably be with the view to proceeding on to do the Law Society or King's Inns professional exams. I am going to give the King's Inns exams a try this August.

dumbyearbook

Hi there is a griffith college open day to day at 5.30-8pm for the LLB evening course anyway (which was the one i was enquiring about)

I'm stuck between doing an LLB or just an FE1 prep course though, i have a bcomm and masters in marketing already like.