The ILEX route to becoming a Solicitor
The ILEX Professional Qualification in Law is an excellent foundation for training as a solicitor.
If you have not started any legal training
If you know that you want to be a solicitor and you have not started your training yet, why not consider studying through the ILEX route? This way, you work through the ILEX exams and qualifying employment in the usual way, and then top up your ILEX Professional Qualification in Law with some additional ILEX Level 6 Single Subject Certificates (see below) to satisfy the academic stage of training required by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (the SRA). You then embark on the Legal Practice Course. If you are already a Fellow of ILEX before you complete the Legal Practice Course you may be exempt from undertaking the two-year training contract usually required by the SRA.
Full information on this route is available from the SRA's training and education department on 0870 606 2555 and it is essential that you discuss your situation with them before embarking on any courses with ITC. You may also wish to contact Rosemary Verlander-Smith at ITC for advice on 01234 844305.
If you are already a Graduate Member of ILEX
The subjects that you studied for your ILEX Level 6 Professional Higher Diploma in Law and Practice will count towards the SRA's academic stage of training. You can study with ITC to obtain ILEX Level 6 Single Subject Certificate exams in the remaining subjects from the SRA's core list:
- Tort
- Equity and Trusts
- Contract
- Land Law
- Public Law
- European Law
- Criminal Law
In addition to these, you will need one further law subject of your choice. This, too, may be an ILEX Level 6 exam you have already passed.
Once you have satisfied the SRA's academic stage of training you need to embark on the Legal Practice Course (LPC).
If you are already a Graduate Member or Fellow of ILEX, please contact the SRA's training and education department on 0870 606 2555 for details of eligibility and time limits. You may also wish to contact Rosemary Verlander-Smith at ITC for advice on 01234 844305.
Application
Apply now on-line, or print off and complete the course enrolment application form below, and submit by post or fax. Enrolment applications can also be taken by telephone on 01234 844300.
Download application: ILEX course enrolment form 2010-2011
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