CILEx Membership Grade

Academic Transfer Requirements

Associate Member (ACILEx)

ACILEx Members with a Law Degree can usually progress straight to the SQA Level 6 Diploma (Conveyancing or Probate).

ACILEx Members with a CILEx Level 3 Professional Diploma in Law and Practice, must complete SQA Level 4 Units: Standard Conveyancing Transactions OR Law of Wills, Succession and Grants of Representation, plus the relevant Accounts unit.

Then complete the SQA Level 6 Diploma.

Graduate Member (GCILEx)

GCILEx Members, with CILEx Professional Exams in Conveyancing/Probate, can progress straight onto the SQA Level 6 Diploma.

GCILEx Members that have also passed the CILEx Level 6 Modules: Land Law or Conveyancing or Law of Wills and Succession or Probate Law, within the past 6 years, may be eligible to claim a further unit exemption for these modules.

Please verify this with a training provider. 

CILEx Fellow (FCILEx)

FCILEx Members must complete two units in the SQA Level 6 Diploma. These include:

(1) Managing Client and Office Accounts (Conveyancing or Probate); and

(2) Landlord and Tenant.

FCLIEx Members that have also passed the CILEx Level 6 module: Advanced Commercial Property Law, in the past 6 years, can claim a further exemption to SQA Level 6 Unit: Landlord and Tenant.

CILEx Practitioner (CILEx Lawyer)

CILEx Practitioners not qualified as a CILEx Fellow (Conveyancing or Probate) must complete the SQA Level 6 Diploma without exemption to any unit.

Please verify any exemption to the SQA Level 4 Units with a training provider to ensure the CLC's Academic Standards are achieved.

CILEx Membership Grade

Academic Transfer Requirements

CPQ Foundation Stage

(CILEx Paralegal)

Paralegals that have achieved the CPQ Foundation Stage need only to complete the below SQA Level 4 Units:

(1) Standard Conveyancing Transactions; and

(2) Understanding Accounting Procedures for Conveyancing Transactions.

OR

(1) Law of Wills, Succession and Grants of Representation; and

(2) Understanding Accounting Procedures for Probate Transactions.

Then complete the SQA Level 6 Diploma.

CPQ Advanced Stage

(CILEx Advanced Paralegal)

Advanced Paralegals that have achieved the CPQ Advanced Stage including the optional module: Conveyancing or Private Client, must complete the SQA Level 4 Unit: Understanding Accounting Procedures (Conveyancing or Probate).

Then complete the SQA Level 6 Diploma.

CPQ Professional Stage

(CILEx Lawyer)

CILEx Lawyers that have achieved CPQ Professional Stage including the optional module: Private Client, need to complete the SQA Level 6 Unit:

(1) Managing Client and Office Accounts (Probate).

CILEx Lawyers that have achieved CPQ Professional Stage including the optional module: Residential Conveyancing, need to complete the SQA Level 6 Units:

(1) Managing Client and Office Accounts (Conveyancing); and

(2) Landlord and Tenant

(when a pass on the additional optional module: Commercial Conveyancing, cannot be evidenced).