Start your future with South Africa's first and only Bachelor of Paralegal Studies

Your future as a Paralegal Practitioner gives you access to any of the following careers:

• Industrial Relations Officer
  
• Law Office Manager
  
• Debt Reviewer
  
• Debt Counsellor
  
• Conveyancing Secretary
  
• Company Secretarial Practitioner
  
• Community-based Paralegal
  
• Court Interpreter
  
• MVA Claims Handler

This internationally benchmarked programme was developed in consultation with, among others, legal and paralegal practitioners in the field, the Association of Advice Offices of South Africa and the National Alliance for the Development of Community Advice Offices. Now you can be part of the first intake.

Visit the Faculty of Business & Management Sciences page on our website for more information.

Empowering South Africa’s communities of the future

Advocate Noleen Leach and team took a tremendous amount of care in designing CPUT’s new Bachelor of Paralegal Studies programme. With a deep sense of community, her goal was to improve access to justice for South Africa’s most vulnerable.

“One of the unique features of paralegalism across the African continent is the community-based, socio-legal function that many paralegals perform. However, accredited education and training for these and other paralegals lagged behind mainstream legal education. The Bachelor of Paralegal Studies degree endeavours to fill that gap in legal education by providing the educational foundation for the professionalisation of the paralegal sector, which would serve to meet the primary legal needs of society. It is also a preparatory mechanism for candidates who wish to pursue advanced studies in law, including the LLB.” – Adv. Noleen Leach

To learn more about South Africa’s first Bachelor of Paraleagal Studies visit the CPUT website. CLOSING DATE: 30 September 2017