Programme Name | Bachelor of Laws (LLB) |
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Programme Description | The programme is designed to prepare students to enter into private practice as a barrister or solicitor should they pass the bar exams. Others work as corporate lawyers for large firms, legal officers in the public service, community lawyers or in a wide range of positions outside the legal profession. For admission to Bar, the students must take an additional qualification, the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice. |
Majors | Law |
Minimum Requirement | a)Pass in Year 13 with 50% or more marks in English b)Applicants who do not meet the requirement based on the years of continuous education progression, but who are able to demonstrate their ability to succeed in the programme at this level on the basis of their maturity, work experience or prior learning and are 21 years of age, may also be admitted to the programme. |
Programme Type | Bachelors Degree |
Credit Points Required | 480 |
Campus | Nasinu |
Duration | 4 Years |
Estimated Tution Fees - Local (FJD) | $17,855.87 |
Estimated Tution Fees - Regional | $53,567.62 |
Note | For Year 1, Semester 1, choose APS501/HIS501 or any Level 5 course from any discipline (if prerequisites are met). For Semester 2, choose ETH501 or any Level 5 course from any discipline (if prerequisites are met). For Year 3, Semester 1, choose any one Level 7 unit from law electives. For Semester 2, choose any one Level 7 unit from law electives. For Year 4, Semester 1, choose any one Level 7 unit from law electives. For Semester 2, choose any two Level 7 units from law electives. |
Core Units | Offered In |
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LAW505 - Common Law Reasoning and Insitutions - II | Semester 2 |
LAW503 - Constitutional Law in South Pacific | Semester 2 |
LAW504 - Legal Writing | Semester 2 |
LNG501 - English for Academic Studies | Semester 1 |
LAW500 - Common Law Reasoning and Institutions I | Semester 1 |
LAW506 - Law and Pacific Society | Semester 1 |
Core Units | Offered In |
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LAW602 - Criminal Law - I | Semester 1 |
LAW600 - Elements of the Law of Contract I | Semester 1 |
LAW606 - Law of Tort I | Semester 1 |
LAW610 - Public Law - I | Semester 1 |
LAW608 - Elements of the Law of Contract - II | Semester 2 |
LAW609 - Criminal Law - II | Semester 2 |
LAW611 - Public Law II | Semester 2 |
LAW607 - Law of Tort - II | Semester 2 |
Core Units | Offered In |
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LAW705 - Civil Procedure | Semester 2 |
LAW702 - Land Law I | Semester 1 |
LAW700 - Trusts & Equity I | Semester 1 |
LAW701 - Trust & Equity II | Semester 2 |
LAW703 - Land Law - II | Semester 2 |
LAW704 - Company Law | Semester 1 |
Core Units | Offered In |
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LAW723 - Evidence - I | Semester 1 |
LAW724 - Evidence - II | Semester 2 |
LAW720. - Legal Ethics | Semester 1 |
LAW721 - Administrative Law I | Semester 1 |
LAW722 - Administrative Law II | Semester 2 |