Master of Law - Employment Law and Practice

The LLM Employment Law and Practice covers the field that touches every UK organisation: the contract of employment, unfair dismissal and redundancy, discrimination and equality law, TUPE transfers, industrial action, and tribunal procedure. It is taught with a practitioner slant inside Leicester De Montfort Law School, and the practice strand includes drafting particulars of claim and responses, advising on live-style scenarios, and mock tribunal advocacy.

The course attracts a mixed cohort of law graduates and HR professionals, which sharpens the seminar debate — the same dismissal looks different to counsel and to the HR manager who ran the process. Assessment runs on advisory memoranda, drafting portfolios and a dissertation; recent student topics have tracked gig-economy status litigation and the expanding law of workplace harassment prevention.

A scheduling note from the source: this LLM lists September entry with the standard late-July application deadline, and its coursework calendar is built so that the tribunal-practice module lands after the substantive dismissal and discrimination blocks — a sequencing students with HR day jobs have historically valued when negotiating study leave. The fee of £17,950 sits in the law school’s middle tier.

Practically, employment law is one of the few legal fields where non-solicitor careers are strong: employee relations, HR compliance and union casework hire steadily, generally from £24,000 upward, and the knowledge transfers directly to Indian labour-law-adjacent roles in multinationals. As with every taught master’s in this list, graduates qualify for the Graduate Route on completion — the permission is 18 months for applications from 1 January 2027 onward, two years for applications before that date — and dependants are excluded on taught study routes.