This course is now open for 2025 admissions! Early applicants will have a greater chance of securing a place on this popular course. Course fees are not payable at this stage, so we encourage all students to apply while application administrative processing fees are still waived.  Apply now.

The  Graduate Diploma in English & Hong Kong Law (Common Professional Examination) ("CPE") jointly run with the Manchester Metropolitan University is  now OPEN for applications. This is your chance to get onto the upcoming class of our most prestigious pathway toward the PCLL towards becoming a lawyer in Hong Kong without the need for additional conversion exams required of similar law courses if you complete the optional third year and choose to top-up to an undergraduate university law degree. As an English (and Hong Kong) recognised law qualification, our students have found success in Hong Kong  and other jurisdictions such as the UK and Australia as well, to name a few. 

The CPE offers a dual-mode study guarantee for 2025 applicants ONLY. This will allow successful applicants in 2025 to attend HK-based lectures entirely live online for additional flexibility. Please click HERE for more information and consider applying now.

To find out more about Hong Kong's most popular part-time pathway to legal practice, click here. Or you can hear directly from some of our thousands of successful alumni and our recent graduates on our YouTube channel.

^ Face-to-face and live online for lectures by HK-based teachers. Different arrangements apply for tutorials and UK-based lectures. Examinations are normally face-to-face. Arrangement applies to the normal duration of studies, not any extended periods due to deferrals, resitting exams, etc. For details,  click here.

The Graduate Diploma in English and Hong Kong Law (CPE) is an exempted course under the Non Local Higher and Professional Education (Regulation) Ordinance. It is a matter of discretion for individual employers to recognize any qualification to which this course may lead.