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Should I do this to become a solicitor?

So basically do an undergraduate degree in international relations and then do a masters in law. I want to specialise in public law. What do you think?????
Original post by jasmin0904
So basically do an undergraduate degree in international relations and then do a masters in law. I want to specialise in public law. What do you think?????

It's not a bad plan to do a non Law related degree if you are more interested in IR - you can always convert to Law at a later stage
There is no need to do IR to know more about international public law in order to work in international public law. It's sufficient to have a law degree and take a specialist master's in international public law, or skip the master's altogether.

You can do a bachelor's in IR first, of course.
Original post by jasmin0904
So basically do an undergraduate degree in international relations and then do a masters in law. I want to specialise in public law. What do you think?????


Do you know what most public lawyers do for a living?

More than half of all judicial review cases brought relate to immigration and asylum. Other major areas are homelessness and housing; community care, prisons and town & country planning.
Aye, public law ain't all that.

See this judgment of a tort case (right to privacy coming from ECHR): https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKHL/2003/53.html

I mean, do you really wanna be doing stuff like this all day? And this is a more interesting one.
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Original post by Notoriety
Aye, public law ain't all that.

See this judgment of a tort case (right to privacy coming from ECHR): https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKHL/2003/53.html

I mean, do you really wanna be doing stuff like this all day? And this is a more interesting one.

That is a vastly more interesting one, one that went all the way.

We have never across the practice got a case beyond the Court of Appeal although one of our constituent firms once got one to the House of Lords before our merger.

David Reston

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/david-reston-a7692345

who then had a little firm in York ran the case you have linked to.

This is perhaps a more typical case

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2019/250.html
Original post by nulli tertius
That is a vastly more interesting one, one that went all the way.

We have never across the practice got a case beyond the Court of Appeal although one of our constituent firms once got one to the House of Lords before our merger.

David Reston

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/david-reston-a7692345

who then had a little firm in York ran the case you have linked to.

This is perhaps a more typical case

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2019/250.html

He is a bit of a character and I hope he got the lady he had hoped for.

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