CILEX Practitioners

What is a CILEX Practitioner?

A CILEX Practitioner is a lawyer who has a practice right in a specific area of law. This means that we authorise them to carry out work in the specific areas of law.

To gain a practice right, individuals are required to undergo a rigorous authorisation process to demonstrate to us that they have the right knowledge, skills and experience in their specialist area of law.

You can find, or check that a person is, a CILEX Practitioner on our CILEX Authorised Practitioner Directory. See the types of CILEX Practitioner below.

What can a CILEX Practitioner do?

CILEX Practitioners are authorised to carry out work in one, or more, areas of law. The different types of CILEX Practitioner and the legal work they can carry out are shown below. They do not need to be supervised to provide legal work in the area of law we authorise them to do.

• • CILEX Conveyancing Practitioner 
    Legal work needed to buy or sell property and related work such as remortgaging property

• • CILEX Immigration Practitioner 
    Immigration, asylum, citizenship and nationality work

• • CILEX Litigator and Advocate (civil chambers advocacy)
    Work involved in preparing for and going to court to sort out disputes and speaking on a person’s behalf in judge’s chambers

• • CILEX Litigator and Advocate (civil)
    Work involved in preparing for and going to court to sort out disputes and speaking on a person’s behalf in judge’s chambers and the county court

• • CILEx Litigator and Advocate (criminal) 
    Work needed to defend, or take a court case against, a person accused of a crime including speaking on a person’s behalf in the magistrates’ court

• • CILEX Litigator and Advocate (family chambers advocacy) 
    Legal work for divorce, and sorting issues about money, property and children, including speaking on a person’s behalf in judge’s chambers

• • CILEX Litigator and Advocate (family) 
    Legal work for divorce, and sorting issues about money, property and children, including speaking on a person’s behalf in judge’s chambers and the family court

• • CILEX Probate Practitioner 
    Legal work needed to deal with preparing trusts, inheritance tax and the administration of a deceased’s estate

• • CILEX Practitioner (ACCA-Probate) 
    This is an accountant authorised to carry out the legal work needed to deal with applying for the grant of probate for the administration of a deceased’s estate.

Contact us to find out more.