ILEX - Certificate In Law & Practice

This is the ideal career route for you if you want to become a lawyer, whether you are a recent school leaver; a graduate; hold an LPC or a BVC; work in a legal support role; are a mature student; wish to change career; or need to juggle your work and study with your family commitments

New Diploma syllabus introduced in 2008

- Preferrably 4 GCSE subjects (grade C or higher) including English Language or Literature.

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Level 3 Professional Diploma in Law and Practice (introduced September 2008)

This qualification replaces the outgoing ILEX Level 3 Professional Diploma in Law.

The Level 3 Professional Diploma in Law and Practice is the first stage on the path to becoming a Legal Executive. Students may complete the smaller (5 unit) Level 3 Certificate in Law and Practice en route to achieving the Professional Diploma.

Ilex offers the opportunity for you to qualify as a lawyer with or without a degree.

The Level 3 Professional Diploma in Law and Practice has been developed as a unitised qualification which permits students to adopt a flexible and tailor-made approach to learning. Whilst all students undertake a certain amount of core study, there is also room for students to take units which reflect their main areas of interest.

The qualification also includes a practical legal skills component. The Professional Skills units (units 16 and 17) require that students demonstrate key transferable legal skills in practical situations.

The mandatory inclusion of these units in the Level 3 Professional Diploma in Law and Practice ensures that the qualification both reflects the pace of change in the legal sector and that ILEX students are well-prepared to embrace this change.

The 10 units taken to achieve the Diploma must comply with the following rules:

1. You must take 7 mandatory units as follows:

Unit 1 Introduction to Law and Practice, Unit 2 Contract Law, Unit 3 Criminal Law, Unit 4 Land Law, Unit 5 Law of Tort, Unit 16 Client Care Skills, Unit 17 Legal Research Skills

2. You must take 3 other units - at least 2 of these units must be Practice units and the third unit can be either a Law unit or a Practice unit. These units are chosen from the suite of 17 units.

3. No Practice unit can be counted as achievement towards the Diploma without the linked Law unit being taken also.

When will I receive my results?

Sending Out Results

After the examinations and/or assessments for the different ILEX qualifications have taken place and the quality assurance checks have been completed, ILEX issues your results.

All results are sent out by 1st class post by the deadlines set out in the Important Deadlines and Dates for each qualification. To ensure the safe receipt of your results it is important that you make sure you have provided ILEX with your current address details.

A mixture of multiple choice, exam and Ilex set coursework for the Skills modules

Students accumulate modules, so once 10 have been acquired, you achieve the Diploma level or 5 modules qualifies for the Certificate level, often after 2 years of study 10 modules can be acquired and students are entitled to progress on to the level 6 course.