PSC Elective Subjects

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Category	Course Title	Hours
Company Commercial	A Comprehensive Introduction to Competition Law	3
	Acquisitions & Disposals - Employment Aspects	6
	An Essential Guide to Pensions	6
	Bonds - Introduction	3
	Business Sales Workshop - Practical Issues & Documentation	3
	Clear Legal Writing	6
	Commercial Contracts - An Introduction	3
	Commercial Contracts - The Next Step	6
	Company Law - Revisited	6
	Consideration - Post-Completion Adjustments	3
	Consumer Law - The Essential Guide	6
	Contract Law - Introduction & Refresher	6
	Corporation Tax - Introduction	6
	Data Protection - The Bare Essentials	3
	Effective Boilerplate Clauses	3
	Environmental Law - Introduction	3
	Essential Survival Guide for Directors	3
	Executing Documents - Ensuring Agreements are Enforceable	3
	Flotations - Introduction	6
	Group Reorganisations - An Essential Guide	3
	Information Law - A Practical Guide	6
	Insurance Law - Introduction	6
	Interpretation of Company Accounts	12
	Loan Agreements - Law & Practice	6
	Presenting & Defending Bankruptcy Petitions	3
	Presenting & Defending Winding Up Petitions	3
	Private Company Acquisitions	6
	Private Equity - A Practical Guide	6
	Service Agreements for Senior Employees & Directors	6
	Shareholder Disputes & Litigation	3
	Software Agreements - The Bare Essentials	3
	Successful Joint Ventures	6
	Syndicated Lending - An Overview of the Process for Lawyers	3
	Takeovers - Introduction	6
	Taking Security - A Practical Guide	3
	The Companies Act 2006	6
	Transfer of Undertakings	6
	Understanding Corporate Insolvency	6
	Understanding Personal Insolvency	6
	Understanding the City	6
	Warranties & Disclosure - Law, Practice & Procedure	3
Criminal	Advising At The Police Station - The Complete Novice	6
	Billing for Criminal Practitioners	6
	Criminal Advocacy - The Youth Court	6
	Criminal Advocacy for Beginners - Bail & Mitigation	6
	Criminal Advocacy for Beginners - Magistrates' Court Trials	6
	Criminal Law - 2010 Update	6
	Criminal Law & Costs Conference	6
	Forensic Awareness - A Complete Overview	18
	Forensic Awareness - Fingerprints	6
	Forensic Awareness - Module 1: Firearms, GSR & Explosives	3
	Forensic Awareness - Module 2: Digital Crime & Questioned Documents	3
	Forensic Awareness - Module 3: What’s in a Scene?	3
	Forensic Awareness - Contact Trace	6
	Forensic Awareness - Two Day Civil Course	12
	Forensic Awareness - Two Day Criminal Course	12
	Health & Safety Crime	6
	Practice & Procedure In The Magistrates' Court	6
	Practice & Procedure In The Youth Court	6
	Prison Law - A Practical Guide	6
	Road Traffic Law - A Practical Guide	6
	Understanding Evidence - Bad Character & Similar Fact	3
	Understanding Evidence - Disclosure & PII	3
	Understanding Evidence - Experts & Vulnerable Witnesses	3
	Understanding Evidence - Hearsay	3
	Understanding Evidence - The Rules Of Exclusion	3
Dispute Resolution	ADR - Introduction	6
	Alternative Routes to Judgement - No Trial	6
	An Introduction to Conflict of Laws	5
	Civil Procedure Rules - An Introductory Guide	6
	Civil Procedure Rules - Overview & Introduction	3
	Commercial Litigation	6
	Commercial Litigation - Practice & Procedure	6
	Commercial Remedies for Breach of Contract & Tort	6
	Drafting Statements Of Case	6
	Effective Negotiating Skills for Litigators	6
	Essential Survival Guide for Directors	3
	Holiday Litigation - A Practical Guide	3
	How to Run a Successful County Court Action	6
	Insolvency Litigation - Introduction	6
	Judicial Review For Litigators - Introduction	6
	Judicial Review For Litigators - Practice & Procedure	3
	Litigation Costs - Overview & Update	6
	Mediation - The Way Forward!	6
	Presenting & Defending Bankruptcy Petitions	3
	Presenting & Defending Winding Up Petitions	3
	Running A Small Claims Track Case	3
	Security for Costs - A Defendant's Shield	3
	Service - The Rules & Beyond	3
	Service Out of the Jurisdiction	3
	Shareholder Disputes & Litigation	3
Employment	Acquisitions & Disposals - Employment Aspects	6
	Employment Advocacy - Conducting Tribunals with Confidence	6
	Employment Contracts - Making Them Work For You	3
	Employment Law - An Introduction	6
	Employment Law - The Next Step	6
	Employment Tribunal Claims - A Practical Guide	6
	Fair's Fair - The Definitive Guide to Unfair Dismissal	6
	Hard Times - Managing Collective Redundancies	3
	Hard Times - Redundancy Fundamentals	3
	Health & Safety Crime	6
	Managing Absence - Dealing with Serial Absentees	3
	Managing Absence - Disability Dismissals	3
	Maternity & 'Family Friendly' Rights	3
	Service Agreements for Senior Employees & Directors	6
	Staff Handbooks - Making Them Work For You	3
	Transfer of Undertakings	6
	Workplace Equality - Law & Practice	6
Family/Matrimonial	A Practical Approach to the Family Proceedings Court	6
	Core Knowledge For New Family Practitioners	6
	Discovery & Disclosure- Law & Practice	6
	Divorce, Nullity & Separation	6
	Effectively Running a Care Case - From Instruction to Conclusion	6
	Family Advocacy - An Introduction	6
	Family Advocacy - An Introduction to Public Child Care Proceedings	6
	Family Advocacy - Drafting & Advocacy in Children Law Cases	12
	Family Law - The Complete Practice & Procedure	12
	Family Law Drafting for Busy Publicly Funded Practitioners	6
	Financial Orders on Divorce - Drafting Consent Orders	6
	Financial Orders on Divorce - Introduction	6
	Financial Orders on Divorce - The Practice	6
	Financial Orders on Divorce - The Workshop	6
	Local Authority Lawyer - The Essentials	6
	Pre-nuptial Agreements - Law & Drafting	6
	Private Children Law - In Practice	6
	Public Law Children's Work - Introduction	6
	Public Law Children's Work - Workshop	6
	Special Guardianship & Adoption Issues - The Essentials	6
	TOLATA for Family Lawyers	6
Immigration	Immigration Practices & Procedures - Getting the Best Results from the Immigration Authorities	3
	Prevention of Illegal Working	3
	Sponsorship & Prevention of Illegal Working	3
Intellectual Property	A Comprehensive Introduction to Competition Law	3
	Confidential Information & Trade Secret Law - A Comprehensive Introduction	3
	Copyright - A Comprehensive Introduction	6
	Data Protection - A Comprehensive Introduction	6
	Data Protection - Practical Problem Solving	6
	Data Protection - The Bare Essentials	3
	Design Law - A Practical Guide	3
	Getting to Grips with Tech Transfer	3
	Information Law - A Practical Guide	6
	Software Agreements - The Bare Essentials	3
	Technology Law - Introduction	6
	Television Productions - Introduction	6
	Trademarks & Passing Off - A Comprehensive Introduction	6
	Websites & the Law - All You Need to Know	6
Law & Regulation	Commercial Remedies for Breach of Contract & Tort	6
	CRC & Green Leases	3
	Data Protection - A Comprehensive Introduction	6
	Essential Survival Guide for Directors	3
	Flotations - Introduction	6
	Introducing Commercial Conveyancing - Including Business Leases	6
	Mediation - The Way Forward!	6
	Private Company Acquisitions	6
	Probate - Workshop	6
	Shareholder Disputes & Litigation	3
	Successful Joint Ventures	6
	Understanding Corporate Insolvency	6
	Understanding Personal Insolvency	6
	Websites & the Law - All You Need to Know	6
Leadership & Personal Development	Being a Successful Team Player	6
	Brand New Year, Brand New You	6
	Clear Legal Writing	6
	Complaints Avoidance	3
	Employment Law - The Next Step	6
	How to be More Confident	6
	How to Conduct Effective & Efficient Meetings	6
	Influencing Skills	6
	Learning & Memory Techniques	6
	Managing the Client Relationship	6
	Managing Your Manager	6
	Marketing - An Essential Introduction	6
	Negotiating Skills - An Introduction	6
	Positive Under Pressure - Further Approaches to Stress Management	6
	Practical Networking	6
	Stress Management - An Introduction	6
	Successful Teams	6
Management	Being a Successful Team Player	6
	Brand New Year, Brand New You	6
	Clear Legal Writing	6
	Complaints Avoidance	3
	Employment Law - An Introduction	6
	Employment Law - The Next Step	6
	Hard Times - Managing Collective Redundancies	3
	How to be More Confident	6
	How to Conduct Effective & Efficient Meetings	6
	Improving Your Performance With Emotional Intelligence	6
	Influencing Skills	6
	Learning & Memory Techniques	6
	Managing Absence - Disability Dismissals	3
	Managing the Client Relationship	6
	Managing Your Manager	6
	Marketing - An Essential Introduction	6
	Negotiating Skills - An Introduction	6
	Practical Networking	6
	Strategies for Success	6
	Stress Management - An Introduction	6
	Successful Teams	6
	Understanding Personality - The Key to Professional Success	6
Personal Injury/Clinical Negligence	An Overview of Personal Injury	6
	Assessing Quantum - An Introductory Guide	3
	Clinical Negligence Litigation - Introduction	6
	Confident Drafting in Personal Injury Litigation	6
	Fatal Accidents - The Essential Guide for Practitioners	3
	Holiday Litigation - A Practical Guide	3
	Liability Issues in Personal Injury - A Workshop	3
	Making Sense of Medical Records & Reports	3
	Mastering Employers Liability Cases	6
	Occupational Disease - Overview	6
	Occupiers' Liability - Getting it right	6
	Personal Injury - The Next Step	6
	Preparing Schedules of Loss with Confidence - A Workshop	3
	Road Traffic Litigation - Advanced	6
	Road Traffic Litigation - An Introduction	6
	Running a Successful Personal Injury Action	6
	Tactics for Success in Interim Applications	6
	The Ogden Tables - What Every Personal Injury Lawyer Needs to Know	3
	Tripping & Slipping - How To Conduct A Claim	3
Private Client	An Essential Guide to Pensions	6
	Court of Protection Practice	6
	Elderly Client Practice	6
	Inheritance (Provision For Family & Dependants) Act 1975	6
	Inheritance Tax & CGT - Introduction	6
	Inheritance Tax Planning in Wills	6
	Intestacy Workshop	3
	Marketing Private Client	6
	Organised Probate	6
	Probate - Introduction	6
	Probate - Taxation Issues	3
	Probate - Workshop	6
	Tax Planning For The Private Client	6
	Trusts - Introduction	6
	Trusts - Taxation Fundamentals	3
	Will Writing Workshop	6
	Wills - Introduction	6
Property	Conveyancing Casebook & Problems	3
	Conveyancing Searches	3
	Easements & Covenants Affecting Freehold Land - Practical Insights & Pitfalls	6
	Environmental Law in Property Transactions	3
	Flat Leases, Shared Ownership Leases and Buy to Let - Key Problem Areas Part 1	3
	Flat Leases, Shared Ownership Leases and Buy to Let - Key Problem Areas Part 2	3
	Introducing Commercial Conveyancing - Including Business Leases	6
	Introducing Leasehold Conveyancing - Including Residential Leases	6
	Introducing Residential Conveyancing	6
	Lenders Handbook - Avoiding the Landmines	3
	Planning Law - Crash Course	5
	Standard Conditions Of Sale - What They Mean & When to Amend Them	3
	Understanding Commercial Leases - Part 1	6
	Understanding Commercial Leases - Part 2	6
	Understanding Commercial Leases (2 Day)	12
Solicitors Practice Management	Complaints Avoidance	3
	Managing the Client Relationship	6
	Marketing - An Essential Introduction	6
Taxation	Corporation Tax - Introduction	6