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APIL Certificate

At APIL we recognise that many of you and your colleagues have been aspiring to gain recognition of your expertise in carrying out a personal injury caseload.

The APIL certificate will give you this, providing you with the necessary skills to handle small to medium-sized accident cases from instructions through to conclusion, showing competency in:

  • investigation
  • funding, costs and risk assessment
  • procedure
  • damages
  • liability (RTA, employers, occupiers and public)
  • medical evidence
  • core skills

Gain quick entry at APIL senior litigator level
Upon successful completion of the certificate, applicants will gain fast track entry at APIL senior litigator level subject to the completion of the APIL application form and the necessary trial experience.

The certificate is made up of 8 modules, entitled:

Accidents at work essentials

Essential investigation and business skills for PI lawyers

Funding, costs and risk assessment

Liability in road traffic accidents

Maximising damages

Procedure for personal injury lawyers

Trips, slips and other mishaps – occupiers' liability and public liability law

Understanding medical evidence 

We also recommend that members receive training on advocacy skills. For further details on advocacy training, please contact the APIL office.

Who should attend?
The certificate is particularly appropriate for fee earners who are either new to personal injury work or have less than five years' experience in handling a PI caseload, for example trainee/newly qualified solicitors, paralegals, legal executives or junior barristers.

All APIL members not wishing to take the certificate are invited to attend any of these modules to gain a thorough grounding in that particular area of the law and to obtain their Law Society CPD and APIL hours.

Level:
APIL: litigator/senior litigator
Law Society: introductory/intermediate (ref: XR/APIL)

Workshops:
It is acknowledged that workshops are a good way of learning. Delegates may therefore be split up into groups to challenge what has been learnt.

Assessment:
At the end of each module, a multiple-choice test will be circulated to each applicant for completion. Each test will be marked by an independent assessor and the results notified to the applicant in writing.

Failure to achieve the required standard on the day will result in the applicant having to re-sit the 'multiple-choice test', free of charge at an APIL course of their choice. Upon further failure, the applicant must attend the module again. This is not applicable to those APIL members not taking the certificate.

Duration, frequency and location:
It is anticipated that most applicants will complete the certificate over a two year period although the courses have been spread such that the certificate can be completed within one year if required. To achieve this, applicants may be required to attend courses away from their local regional centre.

Each one-day course offers 5.5 CPD hours and will run in each of the following locations:

London Leeds
Manchester Blackpool*
Birmingham Liverpool*
Newcastle Bristol

*Courses run in conjunction with local law societies

More courses may be scheduled, subject to demand, and applicants may attend the modules in any order they wish.

Accreditation:
Each course is CPD accredited by the:

Law Society of England and Wales
Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL)
Institute of Legal Executives (ILEX)
The Bar Standards Board

Price:
Each module is priced at £190.00 + VAT for corporate accredited firms, £225 + VAT for APIL members and £330 + VAT for non-members.

Delegates can either choose to pay for the certificate in one single payment, or in 8 instalments. If delegates choose to pay in instalments, payment is required at least six weeks prior to each course date.

Save £100!!

Special offer to APIL members and corporate
accredited firms

Pay for all 8 modules in advance for only:

£1700.00 + VAT - APIL members
£1420.00 + VAT - Corporate accredited firms

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Essential investigation and business skills for PI lawyers
Blackpool, 02 Sep
PI for support staff
London, 03 Sep
Tactics for winning and controlling risk in PI claims
London, 03 Sep
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London, 04 Sep
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