CILEX Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
CILEX develops and delivers a range of CPD products for both members and non-members, to broaden your legal knowledge and skills and assure professional competence.
What can CILEX CPD offer?
CILEX offers resources to:
- Meet your annual CPD requirements and support your ongoing competence in specialist areas of law and practice.
- Develop your professional skills further and advance your career in the law.
CILEX CPD is created and quality assured by experienced legal and educational practitioners.
Development & Professionalism Packages
Our CPD development package options provide a mixture of legal, professionalism and ethics subjects.
Conveyancing Packages
Our Conveyancing CPD development packages will bring you up to date with developing areas of conveyancing practice.
Wills & Probate Packages
Our Wills & Probate CPD packages will keep you up to date on all areas of later life planning legal practice.
Civil Litigation Packages
Our Civil Litigation CPD packages will keep you up to date on legislation, cases, and procedures of civil dispute resolution.
Family Law Packages
Our Family Law CPD packages will keep you up to date on divorces, cohabitations, and all other areas of family practice.
Business & Commercial Law Modules
Our Business & Commercial Law CPD modules will develop your knowledge of a range of legal subjects for advising commercial clients.
Criminal Law Modules
Our Criminal Law CPD modules will help you develop your knowledge of criminal justice cases, legislation and procedures.
Contract Law Modules
Our Contract Law CPD modules will help you develop your knowledge of contract drafting, negotiation, and other aspects of contract legal work.
Law of Tort Modules
Our Law of Tort CPD modules will help you develop your knowledge of tortious cases, legislation and procedures.
Ethics and Professional Responsibility Modules
As a CILEX member, or working within the legal sector, it’s essential you understand your professional and regulatory responsibility. We offer two CPD courses to help you with this:
Ethics and Professional Responsibility – an introduction: this module introduces you to the regulatory structure, your CILEX Code of Conduct and essential responsibilities around compliance including money-laundering, data protection and client due diligence.
Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Context: this consists of three modules on Ethical Conduct, Regulation, and Professional Practice, exploring the interplay between ethical regulation, professional regulation and legal regulation.
Recording your CPD
As part of the process, you are required to record your CPD via myCILEX portal. You can learn more about your CPD obligations, which includes:
- How to record your CPD
- CPD guide
- Evaluation documents
- Non-compliance