Chartered Institute of Legal Executives · RQF Level 6
CILEx Level 6 Certificate in Law
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 6
- Total credits14
- Guided learning50 hours
- Units in this qualification23
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
Company and Partnership LawReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different forms of business media
- Understand the principles of partnership law
- Understand the underpinning concepts of the company
- Understand the promotion and formation of the company
- Understand the nature and purpose of the company’s constitution
- Understand the principles of share issue, capital and capital maintenance
- Understand how a company borrows money
- Understand the long-term and day-to-day management of the company
- Understand the principles of reconstruction, merger and acquisition
- Understand the concepts of insolvency and liquidation
Contract LawReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the general nature of the law of contract
- Understand the law on the formation of contract
- Understand the rules for determining a party’s intention to create legal relations
- Understand the doctrine of consideration
- Understand the doctrine of privity of contract
- Understand the law governing terms of contract
- Understand the law governing exemption clauses
- Understand the law of misrepresentation
- Understand duress and undue influence
- Understand the law on illegal contracts
- Understand the law on discharge of contract
- Understand remedies for breach of contract
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 LawReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental requirements of criminal liability
- Understand the requirements for liability for non-fatal offences
- Understand the requirements for liability for homicide
- Understand the requirements for liability for offences against property
- Understand the requirements for liability for inchoate offences
- Understand the requirements of the general defences
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
Employment LawReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key concepts and themes in the development of employment law in England and Wales
- Understand how employees and workers are protected under statutes
- Understand aspects of employment protection given to different types of workers
- Understand the protection afforded to employees by the Equality Act 2010
- Understand the law concerning wrongful dismissal and constructive dismissal
- Understand the law concerning unfair dismissal
- Understand the law governing redundancy
- Understand the law in relation to a transfer of a business or part of a business from one organisation to another
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Equity and TrustsReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of equity and equitable principles in English Law
- Understand equitable remedies
- Understand how trusts, including secret trusts, are deliberately created
- Understand when trusts will be implied by law
- Understand the rules relating to purpose trusts
- Understand the role of trustees and the administration of trusts
- Understand the remedies available to beneficiaries for breach of trust
European Union LawReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the constitutional and political history of the EU
- Understand the constitutional structure and institutions of the EU
- Understand the legislative competences and processes of the EU
- Understand the essential principles of the EU legal order
- Understand the rules relating to venue for litigation and enforcement of claims in the EU
- Understand the rules relating to the application of EU legal principles in national legal systems
- Understand the rules relating to direct actions before the ECJ and Court of First Instance (CFI)
- Understand the substantive law relating to the single int
Family LawReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the underlying legal principles of marriage
- Understand the underlying legal principles of adult partnerships
- Understand the underlying legal principles of nullity in marriage
- Understand the underlying legal principles of dissolution of marriage, civil partnership and judicial separation
- Understand statutory provisions for protection from violence and molestation
- Understand provisions for family property and ownership
- Understand provisions for financial relief during and after marriage/civil partnership
- Understand the legal basis of parental responsibility
- Understand relevant
Immigration LawReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the framework of immigration control in the UK
- Understand the routes to admission for the purposes of employment or self-employment
- Understand the rules on the admission of family members
- Understand the other key UK immigration categories and rules
- Understand modern British nationality law
- Understand the law governing the free movement of persons in the EEA
- Understand the law of refugee status and asylum application process
- Understand the law of human rights claims for protection and humanitarian protection
- Understand the law on deportation and removal
- Understand the appeal
Land LawReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal concepts of real property and personal property
- Understand the significance of legal and equitable property interests
- Understand the principal ways in which interests in land can be created expressly or by proprietary estoppel
- Understand the ways in which third party rights in both registered and unregistered land can be protected
- Understand the law relating to trusts of land
- Understand the nature of easements and profits
- Understand the nature of covenants affecting a freehold estate
- Understand the nature of a mortgage
- Understand the nature of a leasehold estate
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Landlord and Tenant LawReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key features of leasehold property
- Understand the formal requirements for the creation of a lease
- Understand the express covenants of a lease.
- Understand the obligations implied in a lease.
- Understand the obligations and duties imposed on landlord and tenant in relation to third parties
- Understand termination and remedies
- Understand the operation of the Rent Act 1977 in relation to residential leases
- Understand the operation of the Housing Act 1988 in relation to residential leases
- Understand the regulation of long residential tenancies
- Understand the regulation of bus
Law of TortReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the general principles of tortious liability
- Understand the objectives of the law of tort
- Understand the law of trespass
- Understand the law of negligence
- Understand the law of tort relating to employers’ liability
- Understand the law of tort relating to liability for premises
- Understand the law of nuisance
- Understand the law of defamation
- Understand general defences
- Understand remedies in tort
Law of Wills and SuccessionReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the formal requirements for making a valid will or codicil
- Understand the rules relating to capacity to make a valid will or codicil
- Understand the legal principles relating to legacies and devises
- Understand the way in which a will can be revoked
- Understand the effect of alterations contained in a will
- Understand the main principles of construction of wills
- Understand the statutory rules relating to devolution of estates on intestacy
- Understand the circumstances in which different types of grant of representation may be appropriate
- Understand the rules governing personal re
Legal Research SkillsReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to analyse the scope and complexity of a practical legal problem requiring research
- Understand how to evaluate legal research sources
- Understand how to perform legal research appropriately
- Understand how to analyse the law in relation to specific legal problems
- Understand how to record and evaluate information
- Understand how to synthesise research to present advice
Planning LawReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal framework relating to land use and development in England and Wales
- Understand the system of development plans
- Understand the legal meaning of development
- Understand the law relating to the obtaining of consent for development
- Understand the law relating to the enforcement of development control
- Understand the law relating to historic buildings and areas
- Understand the principles relating to special planning controls and special cases
- Understand the powers relating to land acquisition in planning law
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
Public LawReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key features of UK public law
- Understand the meaning of “the rule of law”
- Understand the nature of the UK constitution
- Understand the citizen’s civil liberties and human rights
- Understand the way in which administrative acts and omissions are supervised and controlled
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 law on restraint clauses arising from express and implied terms of the employment contract
- Understand the roles of policy and procedure in supplementing the employment contract
- Understand the law and procedure of unfair dismissal
- Understand the law and procedure on a transfer of a business or part of a business from one organisation to another
- Understand and apply the statutory minimum provisions relating to family friendly provisions
- Understand how employees are protected from discrimination under the Equality Act 2010
- Understand the statutory requirements of forming bind
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
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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
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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 6 Certificate in Law
23 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Chartered Institute of Legal Executives.
- Civil Litigation
- Client Care Skills
- Company and Partnership Law
- Contract Law
- Conveyancing
- Criminal Law
and 17 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
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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.
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.