Why stop at giving a 'Bachelor of Law' degree (LLB) to people who have completed the one-year common professional exam, now the graduate diploma in law (see [2006] Gazette, 11 May, 4)?


I would like to assure concerned colleagues that the GCSE law syllabus is extremely wide. GCSE law includes, among other things, criminal law, contract, tort, consumer, employment, family, succession, criminal and civil litigation, police powers, and sentencing. Furthermore, the assessments are all externally set and marked, which is a huge improvement on the internal assessments of the higher education sector.


Giving an LLB to schoolchildren who have successfully completed the two-year GCSE course would merely be giving a GCSE in law the recognition that it deserves.

Edgar Wagner, Anglo-Spanish Law, Derbyshire