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Our BPP student society strategy for the summer of 2012

Our new brochure is here. It contains essential information about the BPP Legal Awareness [more]

#PopLeveson

#tweetinglegals were joined by Non #tweetinglegals to see the hashtag #PopLeveson 'trend' last [more]

Exam time! Good luck!

  Click here to download the paper. Legal Aware End of Twitter Year [more]

Law is not just about compliance for businesses. It's about creating value.

Law is not just about compliance for businesses. It's about creating value. It's also about [more]

The Queen's Speech: proposals will be interesting to current GDL and LPC students

  The Queen's Speech takes place today on Wednesday 9 May 2012. Its full contents [more]

The broad church of legal #tweeps in the UK

In many ways, #Twitter is a joy, because it is potentially very democratising, allowing anyone [more]

Our BPP student society strategy for the summer of 2012

Our new brochure is here. It contains essential information about the BPP Legal Awareness Society, a popular student society at BPP, which discusses how corporates make strategic decisions in the context of law and regulation. We will be sending out … Continue reading

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#PopLeveson

#tweetinglegals were joined by Non #tweetinglegals to see the hashtag #PopLeveson ‘trend’ last night on Twitter. Here are some of the ones I liked on #PopLeveson! Clearly #PopLeveson was a ‘big hit’ on Twitter. Please do let me know if … Continue reading

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Exam time! Good luck!

  Click here to download the paper. Legal Aware End of Twitter Year Assessment Question Booklet   May 2012     Note to Students:   This is not a real examination. Any resemblance to real examinations is merely coincidental. Answer BOTH … Continue reading

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Law is not just about compliance for businesses. It’s about creating value.

Law is not just about compliance for businesses. It’s about creating value. It’s also about creating ‘competitive advantage’. This is what I strongly believe should be at the heart of the business strategy. Unsurprisingly, it’s why I feel parts of … Continue reading

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The Queen’s Speech: proposals will be interesting to current GDL and LPC students

  The Queen’s Speech takes place today on Wednesday 9 May 2012. Its full contents are yet to be published. Some of the proposals below, if included, might see themselves in future in the GDL or LPC. Please note that … Continue reading

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The broad church of legal #tweeps in the UK

In many ways, #Twitter is a joy, because it is potentially very democratising, allowing anyone to have a dominant presence on it, whether he or she be a GDL student, a member of the House of Lords, or a University … Continue reading

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Our new podcast on legal education

                    Thank you to Katie (head of the BPP Legal Awareness Society podcast team, and current BPP student on the GDL) and Quennezy (BPP Legal Awareness Society, and current BPP student on … Continue reading

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Doing ‘experiential learning’: my ‘reflective learning’ for the MBA strategy module special elective

This is a version of a ‘reflective learning’ I completed for my MBA in strategy, analysis and implementation. It constituted only part of the assessment, and I was awarded one of the highest marks in the whole class for the … Continue reading

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Legal Aware is now a national project – thank you!

The BPP Legal Awareness Society (click here for details) was born at the BPP Business School, St Mary Axe, the City in February 2011. To begin with, our meetings tended to be attended by MBA students and Masters students in … Continue reading

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Will secret courts be in the Queen’s Speech?

  The Government published the Justice and Security Green Paper on 19 October 2011. It considered how closed material procedures could be developed in th the UK to ensure that secret intelligence was not revealed in the course of court proceedings. … Continue reading

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