Eight law schools at English universities have agreed to establish a uniform test for admission to their undergraduate law degrees.

The legal exam – dubbed LNAT – will be compulsory for those candidates applying to any of the participating universities. The law schools of the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Birmingham, Durham, East Anglia, Nottingham, Bristol, East Anglia and University College London, are behind the LNAT, which will be made available to other law schools that wish to use it.