COURSE: LLB (5 YEARS)

The successful candidate will be able to: identify and solve legal problems through critical and creative thought; approach and study personal and professional activities in a responsible, ethical and effective manner; do effective legal research by gathering, analysing and critically evaluating information; communicate effectively in writing and verbally; co-operate effectively with others in society; use technology effectively and responsibly to the advantage of the community as a whole; See the law as a component of a system of interdependent systems within the community where problem-solving cannot occur in isolation.

Type: undergraduate degree

Duration: 5 years full time

Compulsory Subjects

First year subjects:

• Introduction to legal studies


• Legal history


• Mathematics literacy


• Skills and competency in lifelong learning


• Computer literacy


• Computer usage


• Roman law

Second year subject:

• Criminal law


• Family law


• Legal practice


• Legal skills


• Law of persons

Third year subjects:

• Criminal law


• Labour law


• Law of succession and administration of estates


• Legal interpretation


• Legal practice


• Criminal procedure


• Law of contract


• Law of evidence

Fourth year subjects:

• Law of business enterprises


• Law of delict


• Legal pluralism


• Legal practice


• Commercial law contracts, consumer and insurance law


• Public law


• Instruments of payment and immaterial property law


• Law of things


• Public law


• Tax law

Fifth year subjects:

• Capita selecta from private law


• Civil procedure


• Jurisprudence


• Legal practice


• Public law


• International law


• Law of insolvency and liquidation


• Law of third party compensation

Careers: Attorney, legal advisor, lawyer, judge.

Source: www.ufs.ac.za

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