Legal English

ILEC preparation course

Our legal English course has been designed to help both students and legal practitioners develop their legal English to a point where they can survive in an international legal workplace, working in English, and pass the Cambridge International Certificate in Legal English (ILEC) – preferably at a C1 level.

The course covers a range of topics including, but not limited to, these areas of law:

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  • Corporate
  • Business associations
  • Contract
  • Sale of goods
  • Real property
  • Debtor-creditor
  • Intellectual property
  • Employment
  • Competition
  • Environmental
  • Negotiable instruments
  • Secured transactions
  • Aspects of international law

Students

Anyone thinking about taking the course should have some familiarity with the law and be either a student of law or a person who works with the law. For such students a C1 (advanced) level of English is needed in order to cope with the course materials.

Anyone who does not have a background in law and would like to take the course, should have a C2 (proficiency) level of English and a keen interest in the law.

The Way We Teach

Our teachers are experienced instructors in English for specific purposes. The course materials are taught in a communicative style that is fun, but hard work and continually requires student interaction and participation.

A Few Things You Can Do:

Legal English links

If you want to get ahead and dive into the real world of legal English online, try a few of these sites:

law.com – comprehensive American portal website for lawyers
Law Society – British site for solicitors and lawyers
out-law.com – British site for law related to technology and the Internet
news.findlaw.com – Find Law is about finding lawyers and laws, but it has a great news site as well
British Ministry of Justice – news career advice, guides to the judicial system, a whole load of information about current law and the legal profession in the UK
Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade – whilst the English isn’t perfect, it’s still very good and a great place to learn about Czech business law in English
Guardian-law – legal news from one of Britain’s top newspapers
Times-law – another section of legal news from the UK