How to specialise in employment law

Hi Anna and welcome to the forums. You've had lots of good advice about acquiring the specialist knowledge... the challenge will be finding a job focusing exclusively on this area. Even on the ER side in a very large company, the focus is likely to be on TUPE and IR issues, unless the company has a strong track record of being taken to court by its staff.
In my experience, the only jobs that will regularly cover a larger range of legal HR issuers are with the big legal firms. Have you considered this?

Hi all.

Many thanks for all your advise.

I have experience of Tupe transfers within my 8 years of HR.

I have found a post grad certificate in employment law and practice at my local university in Northern Ireland which I am currently looking into.

I have never even considered approaching a law firm so this is something I will have a think about.

Many thanks.

Be wary
There is a difference between a certificate and a Masters
ideally you should find one that does its assessments via essays/assignments.

See too eg

www.northumbria.ac.uk/.../

- Peter is entirely correct. From memory, passing three modules / one academic year results in the postgrad certificate; you can add a second year and more taught modules to qualify for the postgrad diploma and if you reach a good standard of assessment on the taught modules you’re eligible to add a dissertation project to the taught diploma and if that passes muster you get an LLM. It’s possible to do all of this Northumbria Uni course by distance learning but they strongly encourage optional weekend study day attendance at the Law School in central Newcastle upon Tyne. I completed the LLM a few years ago and it was one of the best things I’ve ever done.

Good luck David

Thanks so much for the good wishes, Catherine - and your first post on here too!

Welcome to the community Catherine.

Hi David, would you be able to let me know what was the title of the course that you have completed? The link is not working anymore and I would be interested to get more information. Thank you

Hi Veronika and welcome here!

It was I think 'Employment Law in Practice' LLM by distance learning Northumbria Uni Law School but I can no longer find it listed online either.

Might be worth contacting the Law School to check whether or not it's still running.

Assuming not, that's I'm sure a great shame as it proved a most useful course indeed for me at least.

All Best with it!

Hi Veronika,
I enrolled on the LLM Employment Law distance learning through DeMontfort in September and am really enjoying the course. Please feel free to message if you have questions.
Laura

Hi Veronika,
I enrolled on the LLM Employment Law distance learning through DeMontfort in September and am really enjoying the course. Please feel free to message if you have questions.
Laura