Chartered Institute of Legal Executives · RQF Level 6
CILEx Level 6 Diploma in Legal Practice (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 6
- Total credits37
- Guided learning168 hours
- Units in this qualification8
Awarded by Chartered Institute of Legal Executives · on the Ofqual register
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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 main underlying features that enable an act of litigation
- Understand what pre-action steps should be considered before a claim is issued
- Understand the initial stages of proceedings
- Understand when a matter can be terminated without a trial
- Understand the track allocation system
- Understand the key steps made in the progress of a matter to trial
- Understand offers of settlement and interim payments and remedies
- Understand trial procedure
- Understand orders and judgements, how they are enforced and the procedure of appealing a judgement
- Understand the civil costs regime
Client Care SkillsReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role played by negotiation within legal practice
- Understand how to demonstrate good practice in legal writing
- Understand professional conduct issues arising in practice
- Understand the importance of client care within legal practice
ConveyancingReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand conveyancing practice in relation to interests in land and the transfer of legal estates
- Understand how to take conveyancing instructions
- Understand how to prepare a contract for sale
- Understand title and its investigation
- Understand issues relating specifically to leasehold property transactions
- Understand what easements or management arrangements need to be put in place when transferring or leasing part of a wider title
- Understand the legal responsibilities in relation to funding property transactions
- Understand other pre-exchange issues in relation to planning/building reg
Criminal LitigationReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the overall structure of the courts with criminal jurisdiction
- Understand police powers in relation to the investigation of crime
- Understand the rules relating to public funding of advice and representation in criminal matters
- Understand the law relating to bail in criminal proceedings
- Understand the various stages of criminal proceedings
- Understand sentencing and ancillary orders in criminal proceedings
- Understand the principles of legal professional ethics as they apply to criminal matters
- Understand the special rules relating to juveniles
Probate PracticeReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of risk management in probate practice
- Understand what will happen to a client’s property on death if it is not effectively dealt with by their will/codicil
- Understand how a successful claim under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 may affect distribution under the terms of a will and/or operation of the intestacy rules
- Understand the requirements in English law for the creation of a valid will/codicil
- Understand the principles of construction of a will/codicil
- Understand the principles relating to the revocation or alteration of a wil
The Practice of Company and Partnership LawReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key practical, financial and fiscal implications in choice of business medium
- Understand the practices and procedures relating to the formation and management of a partnership
- Understand the procedure for the termination of a partnership
- Understand how to form a limited company
- Understand the implications of incorporating as a registered company
- Understand the practices relating to the convening and conduct of shareholder meetings
- Understand the practices relating to the role and responsibility of directors and other company officers
- Understand when and how a company’s co
The Practice of Employment LawReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of different types of employment contract clause
- Understand the role of policy and procedure within effective employment dispute resolution
- Understand the effective management of staff dismissal
- Understand how to effectively manage a transfer of a business or part of a business from one organisation to another
- Understand the statutory minimum provisions relating to family friendly provisions
- Understand retirement procedures and the relationship with age discrimination
- Understand the practical principles governing the negotiation of, preparation of and advice upon b
The Practice of Family LawReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to terminate a marriage and civil partnership
- Understand the financial consequences of terminating a marriage or dissolving a civil partnership.
- Understand the legislation, provisions and remedies available in cases of domestic violence and molestation.
- Understand the Children Act (CA) 1989 in relation to private law.
- Understand the financial consequences of relationship breakdown for the unmarried family/couple
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 6 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.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
Where this can lead
Corporate Counsel, Litigation
This isn't just a job; it's the start of a serious career in corporate litigation. We're looking for someone who's ready to roll up their sleeves, learn from the best, and eventually become one of our future legal leaders. The path is clear, and we're committed to helping you get there.
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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 6 Diploma in Legal Practice (QCF)
8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Chartered Institute of Legal Executives.
- Civil Litigation
- Client Care Skills
- Conveyancing
- Criminal Litigation
- Probate Practice
- The Practice of Company and Partnership Law
and 2 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.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
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
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
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.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.