Programme Specification and Regulations 2011-2012 - LLB and Diploma in Law (Revised Regulations)

Table of Contents

1. Programme Specification and Regulations for the LLB, Diploma in Law and related individual courses (Revised Regulations)
2. Important information regarding the Programme Specification and Regulations booklet
3. Programme Specification
4. Detailed Regulations
   1. 1 Structures of the programmes
   2. 2 Credit transfer and accreditation of prior learning
   3. 3 Registration
   4. 4 Assessment for the programme
   5. 5 Number of attempts permitted at an examination
   6. 6 Assessment offences and penalties
   7. 7 Progression within the programme
   8. 8 Schemes of award
   9. 9 Receiving the final Diploma and Diploma Supplement
   10. 10 Fees and refunds
   11. 11 Transfer of registration
   12. 12 Students with specific access requirements
   13. 13 Complaints, suspension and termination of registration
5. Individual Course Summary
6. Detailed Regulations for the provision of individual courses
7. Annex A - Structure
8. Annex B - Syllabuses
9. Annex C - Transfers and Credits (within LLB and Diploma in Law)
10. Annex D - Scheme of Award
11. Annex E - Assessment Criteria
12. Annex F - Diploma teaching institutions
13. Glossary of terms
14. Related documents and other sources of information

5 Number of attempts permitted at an examination

5.1 (GR)

A student who fails to satisfy the Examiners in an examination, and who has yet to satisfy the conditions to be considered for the relevant award, may be permitted or required to re-sit the examination up to a maximum number of attempts.

5.2

The maximum number of examination attempts permitted at any course of the LLB or the Diploma in Law is three.

5.3 (GR)

A student who enters an examination hall to attempt a written paper examination will be considered to have made an examination attempt.

5.4 (GR)

A student who receives a result of 'Pass' or 'Fail' in any examination will be considered to have made an attempt.

5.5 (GR)

A student may not make a further attempt at any examination already passed or, in the case of the LLB, for which specific accreditation of prior learning or credit has been awarded.

5.6

Where a student is absent from all the papers for which they made an examination entry their entry will not count as an attempt.

5.7

Where a student is absent from one or more papers, but not all the papers, for which they have made an examination entry they will be deemed to have made an attempt at the papers for which they are absent.

5.8

A student who passes a course at a further attempt will be awarded a mark of no more than 40% for that course.

5.9

If, on the third attempt at the examination for any course, a student receives the result 'Fail', their registration for the degree will cease unless the Examiners, in exceptional circumstances, permit an additional attempt or, in the case of the LLB, a compensated pass mark between 35% and 39%.

LLB Degree

5.10

Where a student received the result 'fail' for the Dissertation examination, they will be deemed to have failed the Dissertation course in its entirety.

5.11

Where a student receives the result 'fail' for the Dissertation element only, and the mark is no lower than 30%, they may submit a revised version of the Dissertation by the date specified in the response from the University.

5.12

Where a student fails the Dissertation and chooses to re-take, it must be on a different research topic.

5.13

The Laws Skills Portfolio and examination paper are assessed as 'satisfactory' or 'unsatisfactory'.

5.14

Where a student receives the result 'unsatisfactory' for the Portfolio only, they may re-submit by the date specified in the response from the University.

5.15

The Laws Skills Portfolio does not count towards the final degree classification.