Legal Secretarial - Scots Law

About this course

This course will take around 25 hours to study and you’ll learn the practices and procedures for various legal specialisms such as Conveyancing, Criminal Law and Family Law. 

Through a series of self-paced lessons you’ll look at the different documentation and terminology used in each of the key legal areas. The course can be studied flexibly online or in one of our training centres. 

This professional legal secretary training is most relevant for anyone looking to work in a legal office which deals in Scots Law. 

There are six modules in this course: 

Module One: The legal profession, qualifying as a Solicitor, the Law Society of Scotland, support staff, the legal secretary/administrator role, how laws are made, Scottish court structure, forms of communication legal document layout, financial records. 

Module Two: Introduction to criminal law, criminal procedure, attendance notes, statement of accused, witness letter and statement, the trial, the judgement, preparing an invoice. 

Module Three: Introduction to wills, preparing a will, a codicil, power of attorney, rules of intestacy, initial writ, grant of confirmation, letter to a beneficiary, executry accounts. 

Module Four: Introduction to civil litigation, letter before action, summary cause summons, serving the summons, defences, a record, a motion, court of session. 

Module Five: Introduction to family law, basic divorce procedure, instruction form for divorce, initial writ, notice of intention to defend, adjustments, affidavits, child welfare hearings. 

Module Six: Introduction to conveyancing, registered title, selling property, stages in a conveyancing transaction, instruction form for sellers, forms used, settlement statement, final completion process.