Academic Calendar
The Costs Lawyer Professional Qualification covers a two year period. Students may start in September or February at Year 1 or Year 2, depending on previous academic qualifications.
The following academic calendar provides an outline and should give you a good idea of the time required to complete the CLPQ.
Exact dates will be confirmed to students prior to the start of the term. Each module includes one one-hour online weekly tutorial session.
Autumn term
| Online Induction – 1.5 hours | 26 August 2026: 12pm-1.30pm |
| Teaching will start on week commencing 31 August 2026 | |
| Online CLSB Session – An introduction to the Costs Lawyer Standards Board – 1 hour | 7 September 2026: 2pm-3pm |
| YEAR 1:1 | |
| Contract Law – 7 weeks | September 2026 to October 2026 |
| Online Exam | October 2026 |
| Tort – 5 weeks | November 2026 – December 2026 |
| Online Exam | TBC |
| YEAR 1:2 | |
| Civil Litigation – 8 weeks | September 2026 to October 2026 |
| Professional Standards & Ethics – 4 weeks | October 2026 to November 2026 |
| Online Seminar PSE (0.5 Half Day) | 16 November 2026 (Morning) |
| Assignments due | January 2027 |
| YEAR 2:1 | |
| Costs Pleadings and Process – 12 weeks | September 2026 to November 2026 |
| Legal Aid – 4 weeks | November 2026 to December 2026 |
| Assignments due | January 2027 |
| Costs Advocacy – 4 weeks | November 2026 to December 2026 |
| Online Costs Advocacy Seminar (0.5 Half Day) | December 2026 |
| In-Person Costs Advocacy Seminar (1 Full Day) | TBC |
| YEAR 2:2 | |
| Practice and Procedure in Specialist Forums – 12 weeks | September 2026 to November 2026 |
| The lawyer-client relationship and funding arrangements – 12 weeks | September 2026 to November 2026 |
| Online Exams | January 2027 |
| Online session with CLSB – Becoming a regulated Costs Lawyer | February 2027 |