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Who is eligible for entry to the course? 

The course is open to people who hold a law degree that satisfies Queensland admission requirements for solicitors. Most Australian law degrees satisfy these requirements.

1. Eligibility for normal entry

To be eligible for a place in the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice you must hold, or be entitled to, an approved degree in law by the date the Course commences. (Note that the Director, Legal Practice may allow students with one or two undergraduate subjects still to complete for their degree to gain entry to the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice).

Barristers' Board examinations . If you have completed the examinations under the Barristers' Admission Rules 1975 as an alternative to completing a degree in law, you are eligible for entry in the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice if you have successfully completed those examinations and either you have any university degree or you have passed 8 or more of the Barristers' Board subjects at a university.

2. Approved degree in law

An approved degree in law is a degree that satisfies Queensland admission requirements for legal practitioners.