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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.

How many places are available for students?

There are 80 full-time places available in each full-time course.

Admission rules for 2007

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.

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.

3. Entry for quota place position where you will not hold an approved degree

If you are not eligible for entry under clause 1 above, but have only one undergraduate unit to complete to be eligible, you may apply for entry under this rule. The Director, Legal Practice may allow you entry with more than one undergraduate unit outstanding in exceptional circumstances.

4. Allocation of quota places

The number of full-time places is limited to the number of students we can physically accommodate on-campus (80). There is currently no quota on part-time places.
We make offers of full-time places on a rolling basis until the full-time quota is filled. Once the quota is filled, we place applications on a waiting list. Your place in the waiting list is determined by your grade point average for your LLB studies at the time of application.

5. Equity entry

If you are unable to obtain a full-time quota place, you may apply for special entry on equity grounds. To apply on equity grounds you must provide the Director with a written statement that identifies the QUT recognised equity category that you are in and all the matters that you want taken into consideration in respect to your application.

6. Late Applicants

If you apply for a full-time place after the due date then, subject to whether all the quota places have been already allocated, you will be allocated a place or your name will be added to the waiting list.
Applications for consideration under 5 above will not be accepted after the due date.

7. Conditional Offers

If you apply for a place while you are still completing subjects required for an approved degree, any offer of a place we make to you will be made on the condition that you successfully complete those subjects and become entitled to an approved degree by the date the Course commences. This rule does not apply to units that you are allowed to carry into the Course under rule 3.