ILEX Level 6 Professional Higher Diploma in Law and
Practice
The ILEX Level 6 Professional Higher Diploma in Law and
Practice is the second and final academic stage towards
becoming a Legal Executive. You can study at your own pace, but
the qualification should take you around two years to
complete.
Building on the ILEX Level 3 Professional Diploma in Law and
Practice, students are required to demonstrate a broad and
detailed understanding of the law in three specific areas.
For one of these areas, the candidate must also demonstrate a
sound practical understanding of the legal practice that arises
from the law.
The candidate must also demonstrate the required level of
underpinning professional legal skills by undertaking two mandatory
Professional Skills units.
The structure of the qualification is as follows:
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ILEX Level 6 Professional Higher
Diploma in Law and Practice
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1 Practice unit plus its linked Law unit + any
other 2 Law units + both Professional Skills units
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The final academic stage towards becoming a
Legal Executive. Completion of the qualification ensures candidates
are eligible to become members of ILEX.
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250 hours
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No Practice unit can be counted as achievement
towards the Level 6 Professional Higher Diploma without the
candidate having also achieved the linked Law unit*. The following
table summarises the relationship between Law and Practice
units:
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You must do the following Law unit
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… if you intend to do this Practice unit
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Unit 1 Company and Partnership Law
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Unit 16 The Practice of
Company and Partnership Law
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Unit 2 Contract Law or Unit
13 Law of Tort
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Unit 15 Civil Litigation
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Unit 3 Criminal Law
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Unit 18 Criminal
Litigation
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Unit 4 Employment Law
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Unit 19 The Practice of
Employment Law
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Unit 7 Family Law
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Unit 20 The Practice of
Family Law
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Unit 9 Land Law
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Unit 17 Conveyancing
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Unit 14 Law of Wills and Succession
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Unit 21 Probate Practice
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*It should be noted that this rule does not
affect those students wishing to take a Practice unit as a single
unit which is not towards the achievement of the Professional
Higher qualification.
For students wishing to dual qualify as
solicitors, ILEX level 6 qualifications have exemptions with the
SRA (Solicitors' Regulation Authority) for the Foundations of Legal
Knowledge subjects, and candidates achieving the Level 6
Professional Higher Diploma in Law and Practice can use this
qualification towards becoming a solicitor.