Each year the Professional Law School holds a preparation course for students intending to sit the Honorable Society of King’s Inns Entrance Examinations. The course has earned an outstanding reputation for dedicated and talented lecturers and excellent study materials. It is intensive, practical and geared to the specific examination papers set by the examiners of the Honorable Society of King’s Inns.

This year the law school is providing courses at its Dublin campus. Online and Distance Learning is also provided including access to moodle and video archives of all lectures.

Our lecturing team
John Smith - Criminal Law - john.smith@gcd.ie
David Langwallner – Constitutional Law - david.langwallner@gcd.ie
Keith Spencer - Law of Evidence - keith.spencer@gcd.ie
Brian Foley – Contract Law - brian.foley@gcd.ie
Paul Gunning - Tort Law - paul.gunning@gcd.ie

Course Objective
This course prepares students for the Honorable Society of King‘s Inns annual entrance examinations. Focused tuition is provided in the five entrance examination subjects by some of the most popular and experienced lecturers in the country.

Overview of the course schedule
The programme for 2010 will run from Monday May 31st 2010 to Wednesday August 4th 2010

Timetable
Live taught lectures will be provided in Dublin
To download the 2010 timetable click here

Tort Law…………….Monday, 20.15 to 22.15
Criminal Law………..Monday, 20.30 to 22.30
Constitutional Law…..Tuesday, 18.00 to 20.00
Contract Law …… Tuesday, 20.15 to 22.15
The Law of Evidence…Wednesday, 18.00 to 20.00
Extra Classes…………Wednesday, 20.15 to 22.15

Exam focused course material and additional Griffith College unrivalled resources

All manuals are updated on a constant basis to ensure that an up-to-the- minute analysis of the five subject areas are provided to include all new cases, amendments to the syllabus, changes in the examiners approach to asking questions as well as exam tip and techniques. At Griffith College each student enrolled on each subject receives a resource pack containing the subject syllabus and a bank of past examination papers.

All course material, lecture notes, additional cases provided during the course etc are available to our Kings Inns students on Moodle - our student intranet, also available are weekly homework schedules and subject discussion boards where you, your study colleagues and your lecturer can exchange information outside lecture hours…

Changes to the Kings Inns Exams
Last year the Kings Inns exams have changed. There is now a compulsory question that is worth 50 marks and two optional questions worth 25 marks each. These changes will be reflected in the in Kings Inn syllabus at Griffith College.

Click here to see the changes

Tuition fees
The price per subject is €325 or if they are paying for all 5 together its €1,500.

These fees are inclusive of all lectures, exam focused textbooks and resource packs.

Students are also entitles to avail of the Colleges extensive on-line law library with complementary access to lexis nexis , westlaw UK and westlaw.ie either from our extensive library and study rooms which are open seven days a week or via your home / office via Moodle, the Griffith College intranet

Online / Distance Learning

Our distance-learning programme for the Kings Inns preparatory course has been developed in light of the needs of those students who are not in a position to attend lectures in either Dublin. Each distance-learning student receives the full complement of study material at the beginning of the course and is assigned a course tutor who will correct students homework on a weekly basis. Direct telephone and e-mail tutor support is provided. Distance-learning students are invited to attend lectures on campus in the first (orientation) and the final (exam review) weeks of the course.

The fee for undertaking the course by distance-learning is €325 per subject or €1,500 for all five subjects.

Brochure and application forms
Download a hard copy of our Kings Inns Preparatory Course Information click here
Download a hardcopy of the Application form click here
Online application form here

Contact Details:
Course Director of Griffith College Cork Law School
Cliodhna Dineen, LLB, LLM, New York Attorney-at-law,
Griffith College Cork
Phone: 021 450 7027
Email: cliodhna.dineen@gcc.ie