The Bristol Institute of Legal Practice looks set to delay plans to open in London after missing out on the City Legal Practice Course (LPC) consortium contract last week.

The institute – which is part of Bristol’s University of the West of England – was one of three law schools that were beaten by BPP Law School in a tender process for the coveted contract to supply legal training to Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Slaughter and May, Herbert Smith, Lovells and Norton Rose.