ILEXPP Level 2 Certificate in Vocational Paralegal Studies - Syllabus Outline

• The nature of law
• Sources of law
• How the legal system operates
• Resolving disputes

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• Contract law
• Employment law
• Land and property transactions
• Negligence
• Criminal law
• Citizens and the state

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Multiple Choice: Test sample 1
Multiple Choice: Answers to sample 1
Multiple Choice: Test sample 2
Multiple Choice: Answers to sample 2
Multiple Choice Marking Sheet

• Buying and selling goods and services
• Formation of a contract - sale of goods or services
• Validity of a contract
• Breach of contract
• Consumer credit
• Defective goods
• Dispute resolution

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• Introduction to criminal law
• Principles of liability
• General defences
• Fatal offences against the person
• Non-fatal offences against the person
• Offences against property
• The role of the police
• PACE

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• Employees and the self-employed
• The contract of employment
• Discrimination
• Disciplinary procedures and dismissal
• Redundancy

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• Magistrates and the judicial system
• Magistrates in the adult court
• Magistrates' decisions
• Magistrates' and sentencing
• The Youth Court
• Guilty or not guilty?
• Family proceedings
• Duties of the Magistrates' Court

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• Property rights
• Land registration and unregistered land
• The procedure of buying and selling land

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• Civil procedure rules
• Financing civil litigation
• Pre-action
• The County Court and High Court Proceedings
• Judgments

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