CILEX L6 Study Guide 2026

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CILEX L6 exam key facts

The notional pass boundary for CILEX Level 6 examinations is set at 50% of the total available marks. Source
The standard qualification fee for the CILEX Level 6 Diploma in Legal Practice (Graduate Fast-track Diploma) is £269. Source
CILEX permits an unlimited number of examination resits, with the final examination series scheduled for November 2026. Source

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✍️ Sample CILEX L6 Questions & Answers

1. What is the threshold for charging a suspect under the Code for Crown Prosecutors?

✓ The Full Code Test: there is sufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction and prosecution is in the public interest

The Full Code Test in the Code for Crown Prosecutors requires: (1) evidential stage — there is sufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction (an objective test — would a properly directed jury be more likely than not to convict?), and (2) public interest stage — prosecution is in the public interest.

2. What is 'knowing receipt' following Bank of Credit and Commerce International (Overseas) Ltd v Akindele [2001]?

✓ Liability in knowing receipt requires that the recipient's state of knowledge make it unconscionable for them to retain the benefit of the receipt

In BCCI v Akindele [2001] Ch 437, the Court of Appeal held that the single touchstone for knowing receipt is whether the defendant's state of knowledge was such as to make it unconscionable for them to retain the benefit of the property.

3. What is the role of the Parliamentary Ombudsman (Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman)?

✓ To investigate complaints of maladministration causing injustice by government departments and bodies, referred through MPs

The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman investigates complaints about maladministration (including delay, incompetence, and misleading information) causing injustice in government departments and NHS bodies. Complaints must be referred through an MP (the MP filter), and the PHSO's findings are not legally binding but are generally followed.

4. What is 'gain-based' damages in contract law and when might they be awarded?

✓ Damages measured by the defendant's gain rather than the claimant's loss, available in exceptional cases involving cynical breach where compensatory damages would be inadequate (Attorney General v Blake [2001])

In AG v Blake [2001] AC 268, the House of Lords held that in exceptional cases (here, breach of a contract with the Crown by a spy), an account of profits may be ordered in contract. The remedy is discretionary and available only where compensatory damages would be inadequate.

5. What is the doctrine of adverse possession under the Land Registration Act 2002 and how does it differ from the pre-2002 regime?

✓ Under the LRA 2002, a squatter may apply for registration after 10 years of adverse possession; the registered proprietor is then notified and has 65 business days to object, and if they do, the application fails unless the squatter can rely on one of three limited exceptions in Schedule 6 paragraph 5

The LRA 2002 (Schedule 6) fundamentally reformed adverse possession for registered land. After 10 years of adverse possession, the squatter may apply for registration. The proprietor is notified and can object. If they object, the application fails unless the squatter satisfies one of three conditions in para 5 (estoppel, some other right to the land, or reasonable mistake as to boundaries). If the proprietor fails to evict within 2 years of a failed application, the squatter can reapply successfully.

6. What is 'constructive dismissal' under the Employment Rights Act 1996?

✓ Where an employer's repudiatory breach of the employment contract entitles the employee to resign and treat themselves as dismissed

Constructive dismissal under s.95(1)(c) ERA 1996 arises where the employee terminates the contract (with or without notice) because of the employer's conduct. The employer's conduct must be a repudiatory breach (going to the root of the contract or showing an intention to be no longer bound by it), and the employee must not have affirmed it.

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