How long does the LLB in Tort Law take to complete?

The LLB in Tort Law is a three-year full-time UK honours degree, with part-time and accelerated routes available. Placement year is included within the LLB in Tort Law programme.

How is the LLB in Tort Law delivered?

The LLB in Tort Law runs on-campus in central London, online and by distance learning, with the same weekly seminar structure and named programme-tutor support across modes.

Is the LLB in Tort Law recognised in the UK?

Yes. The LLB in Tort Law is a UK Level 6 honours qualification aligned with standards referenced by the SRA and Bar Standards Board. It is a strong foundation for the SQE or Bar route, which are separate qualifications.

What are the entry requirements for the LLB in Tort Law?

Applicants to the LLB in Tort Law typically hold A-levels at BBB or above or an Access to HE Diploma, with GCSE English and Maths at grade 4/C and IELTS 6.5 for non-native English speakers.

What funding options are available for the LLB in Tort Law?

LSLPE offers instalment plans and scholarship pathways for the LLB in Tort Law, and international applicants receive dedicated visa and accommodation guidance from admissions.

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Course Overview

The LLB in Tort Law at the London School of Law, Politics and Economics is a three-year UK Level 6 honours degree combining the qualifying legal subjects with a specialist track in civil liability, personal injury, professional negligence and product-liability practice. Part-time and accelerated routes are available, and the syllabus is aligned with standards referenced by the SRA, the Bar Standards Board and the Law Society of England and Wales.

By graduation you will have drafted claim particulars and defences, argued duty, breach and causation issues in moot, prepared quantum schedules, and completed a placement year in a chambers set, a claimant or defendant firm, or an insurer's legal team. Your capstone dissertation will present original doctrinal analysis in tort.

Every intake of the LLB in Tort Law joins the same LSLPE weekly rhythm, whether on-campus, online or by distance learning, and students are placed in small named cohorts from week one. Reading is drawn wherever possible from primary UK sources including Supreme Court judgments, Law Commission working papers and Sentencing Council guidance, giving honours students a direct working relationship with the evidence base used by the SRA, Bar Standards Board and CILEX. Assessed work rewards clean writing and structured argument over volume, and tutors emphasise the everyday drafting skills that honours practitioners use in first practice.

Key Features

Full LLB qualifying subjects taught alongside a specialist tort and civil-liability pathway.
Syllabus mapped to competencies referenced by the SRA and Bar Standards Board.
Case-room seminars run in the Inns of Court tradition with named tutor support.
Placement year in a chambers set, claimant firm, defendant firm or insurer.
Moot court exercises on duty of care, breach and remoteness questions.
Guest sessions from practising civil-liability barristers and CIArb-listed arbitrators.
Dissertation supervised by an LSLPE tutor with active tort scholarship.
Named tutor written feedback on every graded submission with an interim tutor review at the halfway mark.
Structured induction reading list drawn from primary UK legal sources including Supreme Court judgments, Law Commission working papers and Sentencing Council guidance.

What You Will Learn

Apply the elements of negligence, nuisance and trespass to the person.
Analyse duty, breach, causation and remoteness in modern appellate cases.
Draft particulars of claim, defences and Part 18 requests.
Prepare schedules of loss and Part 36 offer strategy.
Assess professional-negligence claims in commercial and healthcare contexts.
Advise on product-liability regimes and consumer-protection overlaps.
Interpret Civil Procedure Rules on witness and expert evidence.
Build a dissertation from tort case law and Law Commission reports.
Read published UK legal evidence sessions, working papers and reports at practitioner standard.
Manage timed writing and oral defence under seminar and committee-style conditions.

Who This Course Is For

School leavers targeting civil-liability, insurance or professional-negligence practice.
Career changers from claims-handling, healthcare or insurance roles.
Paralegals in personal injury or clinical negligence firms.
International applicants wanting a UK-recognised LLB with a tort specialism.
Working professionals in compliance or risk seeking full legal grounding.
Applicants moving into the degree route from a UK Access to HE Diploma, a mature-applicant portfolio or a related LSLPE credential.

Career Pathways

Trainee Solicitor in a claimant or defendant civil-liability firm.
Pupil Barrister in a personal injury or clinical negligence set.
In-house Counsel to an insurer, hospital trust or corporate risk team.
Legal Adviser to a public body handling civil-liability exposure.
Contract Lawyer supporting liability-managed sectors.
Compliance Officer in a regulated business handling civil risk.
Legal Researcher in a tort-focused chambers or academic centre.
Support-role progression across chambers, City firms and Whitehall departments and legal-policy adjacent teams in central London.

The LSLPE careers service links tort students with placements at civil-liability chambers, personal injury and clinical negligence firms, and insurer legal teams. The service runs at least one careers day each academic year specifically for degree students on the LLB in Tort Law, connecting them with employers across the Royal Courts of Justice, the Inns of Court, chambers, City firms and Whitehall departments and the wider LSLPE alumni network.

Entry Requirements

A-levels (or equivalent) at BBB or above, OR a UK Access to HE Diploma with 45 credits at Level 3, with a preference for essay-based subjects.
GCSE English at grade 4/C and Mathematics at grade 4/C or equivalent.
IELTS 6.5 overall (no band below 6.0) for non-native English speakers.
Two academic references and a personal statement addressing your interest in tort law.
International applicants receive dedicated visa and accommodation support from LSLPE admissions.

Why Study at LSLPE

The London School of Law, Politics and Economics teaches tort within a short tube ride of the Royal Courts of Justice, the Rolls Building, the Inns of Court, chambers specialising in civil liability and the City's insurance and reinsurance market. LLB students engage with practitioners arguing the same cases they read in seminar.

Every intake, on-campus or remote, joins the same weekly seminar structure with named programme-tutor support, and curriculum alignment is refreshed annually against Bar Standards Board and Law Society guidance.

Study skills teaching is embedded across the LLB in Tort Law, covering scholarly referencing, timed writing under committee-style time pressure and the reading of published UK legal materials. International applicants receive additional English-language coaching from the LSLPE admissions team, and mature applicants without recent formal study join a bridge-week before term begins to consolidate written English and note-taking habits. Tutors provide named written feedback on every submission, and every graded piece is reviewed by a second tutor for consistency across cohorts and study modes. Students shadow LSLPE tutors on structured observation sessions at the Supreme Court, the Administrative Court and the Central Criminal Court where relevant, and are encouraged to follow live UK debate through the UK legal-affairs press and the UK Human Rights Blog community.

Apply for LLB in Tort Law

Applications for the LLB in Tort Law are reviewed on a rolling basis and admissions responds within one working day. Apply for the LSLPE Bachelor's programme, placement year in chambers, government or a think tank included. International applicants receive dedicated visa and accommodation guidance from the LSLPE admissions team throughout the enrolment cycle, and progression maps into an LSLPE Master’s programme are set out in writing at offer stage. Enrol Now.