Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 3
Pearson BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma in Applied Law (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits60
- Guided learning360 hours
- Units in this qualification10
Awarded by Pearson Education Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Pearson Education Ltd 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.
Aspects of Employment LawReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different types of employment contract and the impact of employment legislation
- Know the rights and responsibilities of employees and employers
- Understand the various perspectives in employee relations
- Know how and when contracts of employment are terminated
Aspects of Family LawReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal obligations of relationships
- Apply the law on cessation of relationships
- Know the law relating to children
- Understand the law on maintenance.
Aspects of Legal LiabilityReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact of the law of negligence
- Know the rules on damages
- Understand the elements of a crime
- Know the aims of sentencing
Aspects of Property Offences and Police PowersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Apply the law on theft, robbery and burglary
- Know the elements of fraud
- Understand the law on criminal damage
- Understand the regulations regarding the powers of search of people and premises
Aspects of the Law of TortReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the elements of the law on liability for economic loss and negligent misstatements
- Apply the law on negligence for psychiatric harm
- Apply the law on negligence for occupiers liability
- Know the law on private nuisance
Consumer LawReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Apply the law on the sale of goods
- Understand the law on the supply of goods and services
- Know the law on exclusion clauses
- Know other aspects of the law on consumer protection
Contract LawReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Apply the requirements for the formation of a valid contract
- Understand different types of contract terms
- Understand the vitiating factors to a contract
- Discharge a contract using appropriate remedies.
Dispute Solving in the Legal SystemReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the hierarchy of the court system
- Understand the roles undertaken by the personnel of the courts
- Know about the alternatives to the courts
- Know about the finance of advice and representation.
Understanding Law MakingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how legal rules are created by precedent
- Understand how statutory rules are made
- Know how statutes are interpreted
- Know the importance of the European legislative process and its institutions.
Unlawful Homicide and Police PowersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Apply the law on murder
- Understand the law on voluntary manslaughter
- Understand the law on involuntary manslaughter
- Know the regulations regarding the detention of suspected offenders
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 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.
Who’d teach you this

The Evidence Evaluator
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Where these credits take you
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Where this can lead
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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 Pearson BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma in Applied Law (QCF)
10 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Aspects of Employment Law
- Aspects of Family Law
- Aspects of Legal Liability
- Aspects of Property Offences and Police Powers
- Aspects of the Law of Tort
- Consumer Law
and 4 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.