Five-year LLB degree back on the table Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree might be set for another facelift as legal experts bemoan the quality of skills it provides to graduate lawyers. Academics suggest an additional year at university, and subjects that focus more on ethics and morals, while law firms would like to see more emphasis on numeracy skills. The LLB degree is the only academic qualification required to become a lawyer. But for years the attorneys and advocates professions have complained that LLB graduates come out of university ill-equipped for practice. The four-year undergraduate LLB degree was introduced in 1997 — an attempt to democratise access to the legal profession by making attaining the degree shorter and cheaper. It was also intensely and widely criticised. Now, stakeholders in legal education — including the Council on Higher Education — seem to have been won over to the idea that four years at university for a law degree is simply not long enough. But now the debate is what a new, longer law degree should look like.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 08:54:55 +0000
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