Summer Scheme
Applications for the 2025 Summer Scheme are now open!
Applications close on 9 February.
The title ‘lawyer’ encompasses a number of different professions. Although they may all work on cases together, barristers, solicitors/legal executives all perform different roles. Each branch of the profession has its own individual route to qualification and each may be attractive to different people for different reasons.
The LEDLET Summer Scheme gives students the opportunity to see first-hand what the legal profession is like from shadowing solicitors, barristers and a judge.
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We appreciate that for a profession with different career paths, each with its own twists and turns, it is often difficult for anyone to decide which road to take, let alone for those with no prior connections with the law. It is for that reason that we operate the LEDLET Summer Scheme.
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The Summer Scheme is the only opportunity of its kind being offered to students in Wales. Applications for up to ten spaces both in London and Cardiff on the Summer Scheme 2025. You must be under 18 years old and at the end of year 12 by the date of the scheme. There is a single application for the scheme, and a preference may be given as to whether you would like to attend the scheme in London or Cardiff.
The date for the scheme is usually takes place in the last few weeks of July, a date for the 2025 summer scheme has not yet been fixed. If you have any further questions, please get in touch at ledletsecretary@outlook.com.
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APPLICATIONS FOR THE 2025 SUMMER SCHEME ARE NOW OPEN!
APPLICATION CRITERIA
Applications are open to any year 12 student who is under 18 on the last day of the summer scheme. All applicants must live in Wales or have some connection to Wales. Applicants should demonstrate intellectual ability (usually 5 A's or more at GCSE, but this is not a decisive factor).
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A principal purpose of the Summer Scheme is to seek to assist those who do not have any family connection with the legal profession. Students who do have such connections are still entitled to make applications but must disclose their connections fully, and the application form provides an opportunity to explain why such students nevertheless require the assistance provided by the Scheme.
Every applicant who is not offered a place will instead be offered guidance on career options, and opportunities to develop the skills and knowledge which will assist them in their endeavours to pursue the career of their choice, by means of the LEDLET mentoring scheme
HOW TO APPLY
Applicants must complete an application form, in either English or Welsh. The application form for the summer scheme will be on the website. Applicants must complete the online form and corresponding parent and teacher forms must be completed in support of the application.
​Applicants should seek to demonstrate a clarity of thought and a high standard of written English or Welsh. Please note there is no need to apply in the language of your school, be it English or Welsh.
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Applications for the 2025 summer scheme are now open! Applications close on 9 February 2025. Applications received outside of the applications dates will not be considered.
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We will acknowledge receipt of your application by no later than 3 March 2025.
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