No exams or assessments are set or moderated by the university.
CILEx set all exams and mark all exams in accordance with the specific unit outcomes.
Upon completion of CILEx unit exams, students will meet their learning outcomes.

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Series of skills bases tasks set by CILEx; quality assured by CILEx
Pass or Fail grades only

This (Unit 23)

The unit aim: To accredit a range of sophisticated and practical legal research skills

1. Understand how to analyse the scope and complexity of a practical legal problem requiring research
2. Understand how to evaluate legal research sources
3. Understand how to perform legal research appropriately
4. Understand how to analyse the law in relation to specific legal problems
5. Understand how to record and evaluate information
6. Understand how to synthesise research to present advice

The Level 6 Professional Higher Diploma in Law and Practice represents the final academic stage towards reaching Chartered Legal Executive status.

Building on Level 3 Professional Diploma in Law and Practice, learners are required to demonstrate a broad and detailed understanding of the law in three specific areas. For one of those areas the learner must also demonstrate a sound practical understanding of the legal practice that arises from the law. The learner must undertake the two professional legal skills units that demonstrate the required level of underpinning professional legal skills.

Some units in the Level 6 Professional Higher Diploma in Law and Practice are repeated in the Fast Track Diploma.
This unit is part of the Fast Track Diploma, it covers the professional legal skills required in practice

This unit can be delivered as a stand-alone module (not part of the apprenticeship delivery) this will benefit those who wish to study individual CILEx units with support from Staffordshire University and sit the CILEx exams at Staffordshire University.

The learning strategy for this module is based around students committing a total of 42 guided hours towards achieving the learning outcomes over a 13-week semester, to include a block of 18 hours Face to Face contact with a tutor delivered at the end of the module unit.

A further 24 hours of guided learning is provided by way of e-technology examples of this type of learning are;

• Independent and unsupervised research/learning
• Unsupervised past paper exercises
• Watching a pre-recorded podcast, webinar or voice-over power-point
• Unsupervised weekly activity tasks to consolidate learning
• Tutor focused summary sheets for students to compare and contrast their learning.
• Discussion tabs for students to anonymously ask questions on any topic on the module.

Face to Face Contact will include a mixture of small and larger group tutor led activities, working on consolidation and preparation for students to sit their CILEx exams either in Jan or June of each year.

Students will be expected to be familiar with contemporary discussions in this area of law, and to bring a range of ideas to bear on the discussions. These part time students will all be employed in a range of legal settings which will equip them with actual practical knowledge and application of the learning that they can share in their studies. Thus, although there will be a framework of knowledge and understanding, students will be actively, rather than passively, engaged in the process of both learning about, and increasing understanding of, the subject matter, as well as applying the learning to actual employment situations which will further enhance their knowledge, understanding and application.

The module will use a blend of teaching methods to enable different styles of learning to be facilitated, and to meet the needs of work-based part time learners. The differing methods will also be a platform for the development of essential skills such as intellectual skills, communication skills and problem solving, as well as research, teamwork, negotiation, presentation, referencing, argument, judgement and appropriate use of IT.

All on-line materials map to the relevant CILEx unit specification for exam purposes. Students are not expected to purchase any textbooks under the CILEx apprenticeship programme.
Students can undertake and it is encouraged, wider reading via our university online resources.

Access to appropriate texts, legislation and case law.
Module Study Guide and Apprentice Learner Handbook.
Computing facilities will be needed to access material available on Blackboard and specialist on-line databases such as Lexis, Westlaw, BAILII and the Law Commission site.