NALP · RQF Level 3
NALP Level 3 Diploma In Paralegal Practice
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits52
- Guided learning269 hours
- Units in this qualification9
Awarded by NALP · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units NALP 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.
An introduction to Law for ParalegalsReal unit · NALP
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the nature and classification of law in England and Wales
- Demonstrate a detailed knowledge of how law is made
- Demonstrate knowledge and application of understanding of the general legal principles of contract and tort law
- Know and be able to evaluate the methods of dispute resolution outside the court system
Civil Litigation for ParalegalsReal unit · NALP
What you'll be able to do
- Thoroughly understand the concept and scope of civil litigation in England and Wales
- Understand how civil actions can be funded
- Commence and defend a civil action and apply that knowledge to a given scenario
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of how to prepare for a trial
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the procedures post-trial
Commercial Law for ParalegalsReal unit · NALP
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the formation and principles of a Company
- Understand the formation and principles of a Partnership
- Thoroughly understand the formation and terms of a contract
- Understand vitiating factors that affect a contract
- Understand how a contract may be discharged and the remedies that are available
- Understand the concept of confidential information and how to protect it
- Understand the scope of Intellectual Property in commercial matters
Consumer Law and Advice for ParalegalsReal unit · NALP
What you'll be able to do
- Identify a client's needs and know how and when to refer a matter to a senior or specialist adviser
- Understand the nature of consumer law and practice in England andWales
- Understand the remedies available to the consumer for a breach of consumer law and the range of sanctions
- Provide initial advice appropriate to the client’s needs
Conveyancing for ParalegalsReal unit · NALP
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the difference between registered and unregistered land
- Understand how to take standard instructions on the sale and purchase of land and the initial matters that need to be dealt with at the client interview
- Know the steps of the conveyancing process pre-contract
- Know the procedure for exchange of contracts
- Understand how to complete a conveyancing transaction
- Understand post-completion matters
Criminal Litigation for ParalegalsReal unit · NALP
What you'll be able to do
- Understand police powers in the investigation and detection of crime
- Demonstrate an understanding of the role of the Paralegal and the principles of professional conduct in criminal litigation
- Know in detail the classification of criminal offences and the criminal procedure that flows from each
- Know the functions and jurisdiction of the Magistrates' Court and Crown Court in criminal proceedings
- Thoroughly understand the mode of trial proceedings
- Understand the pre-trial function and procedures for the disclosure of evidence
- Understand the scope of public funding for criminal m
Employment Law and Practice for ParalegalsReal unit · NALP
What you'll be able to do
- Know and evaluate the differences between employees and other types of workers
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the key content of written particulars of employment
- Know and apply understanding of how employment may be terminated
- Demonstrate a detailed knowledge of the principles and practice of unfair dismissal, constructive dismissal, wrongful dismissal and redundancy
- Know in detail employees’ rights and entitlements under statute and common law
Legal Ethics and Responsibilities for ParalegalsReal unit · NALP
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the professional and ethical responsibilities of Paralegals to the client
- Conduct a client interview effectively and efficiently
- Know and be able to apply the professional requirements of drafting client communications
- Understand the professional and ethical relationship with third parties
Wills and Succession for ParalegalsReal unit · NALP
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the formalities of a valid will in English law
- Identify and describe the main elements of drafting a will and use legal terminology appropriately
- Know the legal principles of revocation or alteration of a will or codicil
- Understand the law relating to testamentary dispositions and their effect
- Understand the operation of the statutory rules of intestacy
- Understand the role and powers of Personal Representatives
- Understand the law in relation to grants of representation
- Understand the provisions of the Inheritance (Provision f
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.
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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.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
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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
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Where this can lead
Employment Law Paralegal
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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 NALP Level 3 Diploma In Paralegal Practice
9 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NALP.
- An introduction to Law for Paralegals
- Civil Litigation for Paralegals
- Commercial Law for Paralegals
- Consumer Law and Advice for Paralegals
- Conveyancing for Paralegals
- Criminal Litigation for Paralegals
and 3 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.