ILEXPP Level 3 Diploma in Vocational Paralegal Studies - Syllabus Outline

Welfare Benefits and Citizens' Advice

• Claiming benefit
• Housing costs
• Dealing with Debt

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• The family
• Divorce procedure and maintenance
• The matrimonial home
• Parents and children

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• Home ownership
• Financing a house purchase
• Wills and succession

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Employment Matters

• Employees and the self-employed
• The formation and variation of the contract of employment
• Implied terms - binding upon the employer
• Implied terms - binding upon the employee
• Discrimination at work
• The Sex Discrimination Act 1975
• The Equal Pay Act 1970
• Maternity provisions
• Race discrimination in employment

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• The employers common law duty of care
• Breach of statutory duty
• Vicarious liability
• The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
• The European dimension

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• Discipline at work
• Wrongful dismissal
• Unfair dismissal
• Remedies for unfair dismissal
• Redundancy
• Transfer of undertakings

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Civil Litigation

• The tort of negligence
• Occupiers' liability
• Nuisance
• The rule in Rylands v Fletcher
• Trespass
• Vicarious liability
• The Human Rights Act 1998

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• Civil practice
• Funding a civil action
• Service of proceedings
• Interim proceedings
• The Civil Court structure
• Case proceedings

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• Case procedure
• Debt recovery procedure
• Debt recovery in the Small Claims Court

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