Chartered Institute of Legal Executives · RQF Level 4
CILEx Level 4 Diploma in Personal Injury Litigation
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 4
- Total credits54
- Guided learning340 hours
- Units in this qualification9
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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.
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
Damages, settlement and costs in personal injury casesReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the use of General Damages in personal injury litigation,
- Understand the use of Special Damages in personal injury litigation,
- Understand the application of Special Damages for future loss in the context of Personal injury litigation,
- Understand the law relating to the application of interest on damages in the context of personal injury litigation,
- Understand the recoupment of benefits in personal injury litigation,
- Understand the recoupment of the cost of road traffic accidents (RTA) and other medical treatment in personal injury litigation,
- Understand final costs orders and how th
Introductory Considerations for Personal Injury LawyersReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key features of Personal Injury litigation
- Understand the professional culture and terminology of medical experts involved in the litigation process
- Understand how damages-based agreements operate in PI cases
- Understand how conditional fee agreements (CFA) operate in PI cases
- Understand how legal expenses insurance works in PI cases
- Understand how compensation for PI may be recovered via an insurer in an employer’s liability case
- Understand the right to bring a direct action against the insurer in a road traffic case
- Understand the impact of the doctrine of Limitation of
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
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
Preparations for personal injury trialsReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the procedures which a litigant should follow before court proceedings are issued
- Understand the use of witnesses in PI cases
- Understand how to commence and serve civil proceedings
- Understand how the defendant can respond to proceedings
- Understand the procedure where a defendant admits liability or fails to respond to proceedings
- Understand the procedure relating to interim payments
- Understand how the court manages cases
- Understand the rules relating to disclosure and inspection of documents
- Understand what is required to prepare for and attend the trial
The Law Relating to Employers' LiabilityReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal framework in which an employer's tortious liability may arise
- Understand the law on employers' vicarious liability in tort for intentional and unintentional wrongdoings of the employee
- Understand the employer's personal duty of care in common law negligence
- Understand the law on breach of duty of care
- Understand the law on causation
- Understand the tortious damages available in respect of a claim against an employer
- Understand the defences available to an employer
- Understand the scope and application of the employers' liability/public liability protocol with referenc
The Law and Practice relating to Road Traffic AccidentsReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the duty of care owed by a road user to other users of the road
- Understand the common law duty of care in relation to breach of duty, causation, damage and defences in the context of a variety of road traffic accident scenarios
- Understand the role of the Highway Code in road traffic accident (RTA) claims
- Understand the practical steps that need to be taken in investigating an RTA claim
- Understand the scope and application of the RTA Protocol with reference to the use of the Portal
- Understand costs in RTA cases
- Understand the key elements and underlying principles of RTA insura
The law relating to tripping, slipping and occupier's liabilityReal unit · Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the scope of the liability under the Highways Act 1980
- Understand the test for breach of the obligation to maintain under the Highways Act 1980
- Understand the scope of the liability of a statutory undertaker concerning the highway
- Understand the basis on which a claim for a supermarket slip or trip will succeed
- Understand the key features of the Occupiers’ Liability Acts (OLA) 1957 and 1984
- Understand the scope of the Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957 and 1984
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Every credit is a stamp you keep
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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 4 Diploma in Personal Injury Litigation
9 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Chartered Institute of Legal Executives.
- Client Care Skills
- Damages, settlement and costs in personal injury cases
- Introductory Considerations for Personal Injury Lawyers
- Law of Tort
- Legal Research Skills
- Preparations for personal injury trials
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.
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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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