Chartered Institute of Legal Executives · RQF Level 3
CILEx Level 3 Certificate in Law and Practice (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits35
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification19
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Chartered Institute of Legal Executives registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Civil LitigationReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the context of civil litigation within the English and Welsh legal system
- Understand how civil actions are funded
- Understand how to commence and defend actions in civil proceedings
- Understand the way in which actions are processed by the court system
- Understand the circumstances in which it is possible to conclude an action before trial
- Understand the reasons for an interim application
- Understand what is required in preparing for trial
- Understand the trial and its outcomes
Client Care SkillsReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the professional requirements of a client care interview
- Understand the relevant professional requirements of client care communications
- Understand the relevant issues and rules governing the relationship with the client
Contract LawReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of contract
- Understand the rules for establishing whether a valid offer and acceptance have taken place
- Understand the concept of consideration in contract
- Understand the rules for determining a party’s intention to enter into a contract
- Understand how terms are incorporated into a contract
- Understand the classification of different provisions of a contract, and the implication of categorisation
- Understand misrepresentation and its consequences
- Understand the ways in which a contract might be discharged
- Understand the remedies available where a contract has been
Conveyancing - Registered residential freehold with vacant possessionReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the meaning of the term ‘conveyancing’
- Understand how to take standard instructions on a sale and purchase
- Understand the requirements of a Contract for Sale
- Understand how to make pre-contract searches
- Understand how to make pre-contract enquiries
- Understand how to investigate title
- Understand how to act for a Mortgage Lender (new mortgage)
- Understand how to act for a Mortgage Lender (Redemption)
- Understand how to exchange Contracts
- Understand how to complete a transaction
- Understand the work required post-completion to perfect the buyer’s title
Criminal LawReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of criminal liability
- Understand the requirements for liability for criminal damage
- Understand the requirements for liability for homicide
- Understand the requirements for liability for theft
- Understand the requirements for liability for attempting an offence
- Understand the nature and requirements of the general defences
- Understand the nature and features of strict liability
Criminal LitigationReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the powers of the police to arrest and detain a person for the purpose of investigating a criminal offence
- Know the principal functions and features of the magistrates court and the Crown Court in relation to criminal proceedings
- Understand the rules and procedures relating to bail
- Understand the function of mode of trial proceedings
- Understand the rules relating to disclosure of evidence
- Understand the procedures relating to sentencing
- Understand the provisions for publicly funded advice, assistance and representation in the criminal justice process
Employment LawReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand that individuals can have different legal employment status within a business
- Understand the nature of the contract between employer and employee
- Understand the main terms of a contract of employment
- Understand the protection afforded to employees by discrimination legislation
- Understand how employment can be terminated
- Understand when an employee has been wrongfully dismissed
- Understand when an employee has been unfairly dismissed
Family LawReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal sources, legal classifications and social relationships that make up Family Law
- Understand the consequences of the Human Rights Act 1998 for Family Law
- Understand the legal definition of marriage
- Understand the legal differences between marriage and cohabitation
- Understand the consequences of the Civil Partnership Act 2004
- Understand the legal provisions that enable a marriage to be ended
- Understand the relevance of judicial separation
- Understand financial provision during marriage and after divorce
- Understand private law orders for children under the Children Act
Introduction to Law and PracticeReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the structure of the law
- Understand what the organs of government are
- Understand how an Act of Parliament is created
- Understand the meaning of delegated legislation
- Understand how the doctrine of judicial precedent operates
- Understand how membership of the European Union influences the law of England and Wales
- Understand the court hierarchy
- Understand the relevance of the European Convention on Human Rights
- Understand how disputes can be resolved outside the court hierarchy
- Understand the personnel of the English Legal System, their qualification routes and their roles
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Land LawReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what is meant by ‘Land’
- Understand what will be purchased in a Land transaction
- Understand the distinction between registered and unregistered land
- Understand the way in which the registered land system works
- Understand how land can be held by more than one person
- Understand the nature and effect of an easement
- Understand the restrictions and obligations imposed on land ownership by covenants
- Understand the nature and effect of a mortgage
Law of TortReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the meaning of the term ‘the tort of negligence’
- Understand the tests for establishing a duty of care in cases of physical personal injury and physical damage to property
- Understand the concept of public policy, particularly in the context of duty of care in negligence
- Understand the law governing breach of duty of care
- Understand the law governing ‘Causation’
- Understand the law governing vicarious liability in the context of negligence
- Understand defences to claims in negligence
- Understand the principles governing the calculation of damage
Law of Wills and SuccessionReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of a will and codicil
- Understand the requirements for making a valid will or codicil
- Understand the main clauses commonly found in wills
- Understand the circumstances in which gifts in a will might fail
- Understand the ways in which a will can be revoked
- Understand the statutory rules relating to entitlement to property on intestacy
- Understand the role of personal representatives
- Understand the different types of grants of representation
- Understand when further affidavit evidence might be required on application for a grant of representation
- Understand the circums
Legal Research SkillsReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Find and read statutes
- Understand the purpose and status of the statute
- Understand how to use sections of the statute that provide supporting guidance for the user
- Understand how to use information from a statute
- Understand the purpose of a statutory instrument (SI)
- Understand how to use information from a statutory instrument (SI)
- Understand the way in which case law works and progresses
- Understand how to use information from a case report
Probate PracticeReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of risk management in probate practice
- Understand how to determine testamentary capacity and intention
- Understand how to take instructions for a will
- Understand the provisions which can be included in a will
- Know how a will must be executed
- Understand the rules of intestacy
- Understand the basic principles of inheritance tax (IHT)
- Understand the rules for submission of Inheritance Tax Accounts to HM Revenue and Customs
- Understand how to obtain Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration from the Registry
- Understand how to administer an estate
Residential and Commercial Leasehold ConveyancingReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of a lease.
- Understand the professional conduct implications when instructed to act in a leasehold conveyancing transaction.
- Understand the requirements of the initial stage for the sale and purchase of a new residential lease.
- Understand the requirements of the stage leading up to exchange of contracts for the sale and purchase of a new residential lease.
- Understand the requirements of the stage from exchange of contracts to the conclusion of the post completion steps for the sale and purchase of a new residential lease.
- Understand the requirements of the initial st
The Practice of Child Care LawReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legislative framework governing children proceedings
- Understand the concept of inter-agency working and the roles of the key personnel involved in the child protection process
- Understand the duties which local authorities have to promote the welfare of children and to ensure that children are protected.
- Understand the procedure by which a care order or a supervision order is obtained
- Understand the options which exist for securing a permanent placement for a child
- Understand the interventions that are available to protect children who are in urgent need
The Practice of Employment LawReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the practical scope of employment law practice
- Understand the legal implications of recruitment
- Understand the essential statutory principles governing the employment contract
- Understand additional desirable contractual terms and policies which further define the employment relationship
- Understand the right to request flexible working, maternity and paternity leave and pay and other family friendly policies
- Understand how to manage redundancy situations
- Understand how to manage dismissals
- Understand how to submit a simple claim in an employment tribunal
The Practice of Family LawReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirements for the termination of a marriage
- Understand the consequences of terminating a relationship
- Understand the remedies available in cases of domestic violence
- Have a working knowledge of the private law aspects of the Children Act 1989
The Practice of Law for the Elderly ClientReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what the practice of law with particular application to an elderly client may involve
- Understand the importance of mental capacity in an elderly client and the effect of lack of mental capacity
- Understand the purpose of Enduring and Lasting Powers of Attorney
- Understand the range of housing and accommodation issues affecting the elderly client
- Understand the consequences of taxation in relation to proposals for change
- Understand the availability of welfare benefits and pension entitlement both from the state and former employers
- Understand the nature, effects and limitations o
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You’ve started things before
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
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Where these credits take you
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Where this can lead
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for CILEx Level 3 Certificate in Law and Practice (QCF)
19 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Chartered Institute of Legal Executives.
- Civil Litigation
- Client Care Skills
- Contract Law
- Conveyancing - Registered residential freehold with vacant possession
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Litigation
and 13 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
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Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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