Cardiff Law School is to add the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) conversion course to its portfolio of legal training courses from September 2012.

The law school said that that the GDL scheme, which enables non-law graduates to train for a career in law, has become so popular that GDL graduates now make up a ‘significant proportion’ of all new lawyers.

Cardiff Law School said its GDL will combine aspects of its undergraduate LLB programme with practical hands-on teaching from legal professionals, enabling students ‘to apply legal methodologies to real-world problems’.

It added that the GDL lays the foundations for a career in legal practice, with those who complete the 10-month course able to go on to the Legal Practice Course or Bar Professional Training Course for qualification as a solicitor or barrister.