The Professional Education Project, now renamed UCT Law @ Work, was established by the Dean of the Law Faculty in 1999 with the aim of offering short courses (ranging from two-hour seminar-type courses to six-day certificate courses) to members of legal and other professions, with the aim of assisting them to specialise or update their knowledge in specific fields of law.
A number of practical and intensive certificate courses are offered, which comply with the high standards expected of UCT and are based on carefully planned programmes that combine academic excellence with a thoroughly practical approach. Local and international participants from a number of different sectors are encouraged in order to make sessions interactive and provide an opportunity to broaden contacts and network. Certificate courses run over full days and consist of a combination of lectures, workshops and discussions. Certificates are issued only to those who have attended all sessions and passed a prescribed assignment. Examples of the certificate courses offered are Banking Law, Competition Law, Compliance Management, Sports Law, Securitisation, Legal Writing and Sectional Titles Scheme Management.
Seminars, lectures and workshops are conducted on topical legal issues, for instance on the National Credit Bill (now the National Credit Act), Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, and Telecommunications Law. The project also attempts to assist busy legal practitioners in keeping abreast of developments in the law, with short update courses, and in managing their practices more effectively, with practice-management seminars.
Courses, seminars, and workshops offered by the UCT Law @ Work in 2011
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Consumer Protection Act, Act 68 of 2008
Date: 25 March 2011
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Estate and Financial Planning
Date: 30 and 31 March 2011
Members of the FPI who attend both days of this course will be entitled to claim 13 CPD points
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A series of workshops in preparation of the FAIS regulatory examinations
Let us help you to prepare adequately for this exam by attending one of our Exam Preparation workshops which will cover the content of the Regulatory Examination as well as examination techniques.
Workshops will be offered on a variety of dates from April 2011 in Cape Town
Details of these and other courses will be available on the Law website under Professional Development or contact Shani Vavruch or Irena Wasserfall for details.