Some UK professional pathways care about how you studied; many care about the award, exemptions and a local exam. This legal-education paper maps public rules and alumni queries for law-adjacent and accountancy-adjacent students — not as advice on a named application. Brigant’s duty is a recognition pack and the refusal to market ‘automatic solicitor status’. Online students were not uniquely barred in the texts we reviewed; clerks sometimes invented a campus rule. University of Brigant should publish jurisdiction notes. A dual-pathway university that hides professional reality is recruiting badly.