The Cambridge English: Legal (ILEC)
Level B2-C1 in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)
Cambridge English: Legal is a high-level English language exam for law students and practising lawyers who want to work in an international legal setting.
It was developed with TransLegal – Europe’s leading firm of lawyer-linguists.
The exam gives a detailed assessment of your ability to operate in a legal context and uses real-life legal situations you would expect to encounter as a lawyer. It covers all four language skills (Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking).
This qualifciation can help you find a job in an international commercial law context or study law in English in your own country or abroad.
The Cambridge English: Legal (ILEC) certificate shows that you can:
- participate in legal meetings and discussions
- express opinions clearly
- unterstand and produce legal reports and other texts
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
The Cambridge English: Legal (ILEC) will be discontinued as of December 2016!
The last exam date is 9 December 2016.
The Exam Format
Cambridge exams are designed to ensure standardised test conditions for people of all linguistic backgrounds and nationalities and are supported by a dedicated global research programme.
The exam covers all four language skills (Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking), using real-life situations with a legal context.
Cambridge English: Legal (ILEC)-exams are paper-based.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
Target: Shows you can complete tasks based on law-related texts, read and understand law-related texts, demonstrate a variety of reading skills, including skimming, scanning and deduction of meaning from context.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
Target: Shows you can complete writing tasks covering a range of law-related topics.
Duration: 40 minutes
Target: Shows you can understand each law-related text as a whole, gain detailed understanding and appreciate gist and the attitude of the speaker and identify and interpret the context.
Texts take the form of consultations, meetings, announcements, seminars, etc.
Sample Test - Audio Files 1 - Audio Files 2 - Audio Files 3 - Audio Files 4
Duration: 16 minutes
Target: Shows you can perform a variety of spoken tasks on law-related topics, using a range of speaking skills:
- interactional
- social
- transactional
- negotiation
- collaboration
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