Lynn C Doyle
Hello to all and welcome to my blog. I graduated a few years ago with a non-law degree and completed the Graduate Diploma in Law (or CPE, if you prefer) last year. I’ll be sharing with you the highs, the lows and the somewhere-in-the-middles of life as a part-time LPC student at Northumbria University.
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As one might expect, the decision has proved highly controversial, although most commentators concede that it is not entirely devoid of merit: it will at least go some way to prevent employers being held to ransom by lazy, ineffectual employees who abuse the protection afforded to them under the current regime.
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I don’t usually use my blog as a forum for airing my political opinions, but where basic employment rights are being tampered with, I’m prepared to make an exception.
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As it transpired, my fears were not unjustified.
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The second semester of the part-time LPC is now well under way, so I thought now might be the opportune moment for a bit of mid-year course evaluation.
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In my thus far fruitless attempts to transform myself into the all-round paragon of virtue that law firms seem to expect these days for anyone to get through to the interview stage of the application process, I have been keen to take part in any optional extras the university has made available.
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Having found myself devoid of any interesting LPC-related anecdotes of late, I thought it might be a good idea to post one or two pearls of wisdom for anyone considering taking the GDL.
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The advocacy mock required us to conduct an interim hearing in which one of us, taking the role of the claimant’s solicitor, applied to the court for disclosure and inspection of certain documents.
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Advocacy is the one aspect of being a lawyer that I’ve always viewed as a necessary evil, for the simple reason that public speaking has never come easily to me.
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Choosing to do the course part time required some careful deliberation because, unlike full-time students, part-timers are not usually given the option to work in the student law office as one of their electives.
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November is fast approaching and that means the start of two time-honoured traditions.
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Being that we are now three weeks into the LPC, I thought this might be the opportune moment to share my thoughts on how things are progressing.
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Wanting to be a lawyer is the equivalent of wanting to play football for England when you’re an eight-year-old boy. People will nod along indulgently for a while, but it’s only a matter of time before they try to talk you into doing an NVQ in furniture removal.
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