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Courses by type of legal work > Criminal litigation

Criminal Litigation

If you are looking to train personnel to work in criminal litigation then we have a number of courses to choose from, depending on the current level of knowledge of the prospective student. The table below sets out the courses that we recommend to deliver the knowledge and skills required by different levels of staff.

Recommended courses

Key: Level 2 is equivalent to GCSE level; Level 3 is equivalent to A level; Level 6 is equivalant to honours-degree level for law courses or LPC-level for legal practice courses.

Who do you want to train?	What do you want them to become?	Knowledge and skills you want them to have	Recommended courses	What they might consider doing next
Newly-recruited legal secretary/ administrator	More efficient legal secretary/ administrator	Understanding the context of their secretarial/ administrative work	City & Guilds/ILEX Level 2 Certificate in Legal Studies (£405) using Unit 203 Principles of Criminal Liability as the elective subject	City & Guilds/ILEX Level 3 Diploma for Legal Secretaries
Legal secretary/ administrator /unqualified paralegal	Paralegal/more efficient paralegal	Ability to progress a standard file under close supervision. No client contact.	ILEX Level 3 Unit 1 Introduction to Law and Practice (£180); Unit 3 Criminal Law (£270); Unit 11 Criminal Litigation (£295)	Add two more units to achieve the ILEX Level 3 Certificate in Law and Practice (Criminal Litigation)
Legal secretary/ administrator/ unqualified paralegal	Paralegal/ more efficient paralegal with client contact	Ability to progress a standard file under close supervision and to liaise with clients.	ILEX Level 3 Certificate in Law and Practice (Criminal Litigation)(£985)	Add five more units to achieve the ILEX Level 3 Professional Diploma in Law and Practice
Law graduate paralegal	Legal assistant/ file handler	Ability to progress files and to liaise with clients	ILEX Level 6 Unit 18 Criminal Litigation (£495) and Unit 22 Client Care Skills £295)	Add one more practice unit to achieve the ILEX Graduate Fast-track Diploma
Legal executive/ solicitor from another department	Re-deployed solicitor/ legal executive with relevant training	Re-train to deploy to criminal litigation department.	ILEX Level 6 Unit 18 Criminal Litigation (£495)	Also consider ILEX Level 6 Unit 3 Criminal Law (£475) if it is a long time since this was studied.

Fees and timings

Prices quoted are for the academic year 2010-11. Please follow the links to individual course pages to check that these are still relevant and for information on course details. Your students can start their courses at any time of year and have fifteen months to complete each ILEX course. This is a generous period and courses can usually be completed well within this timeframe.

For further advice on using our courses to develop your staff, or if you have any queries, please call Jenny Pelling, Business Director on 01234 844326.