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Court Representation Pathway

  1. Description of the programme
  2. What are the outcomes?

Description of the programme

Within this activity set, there are two training courses that the IMA offer which must be completed:

Facing Courts & Tribunals

Preparing Cases for Court

 

Facing Courts & Tribunals

Course Overview

This course is appropriate for anyone becoming involved in court representation to help you face court with confidence. It will coach you to understand what you need to consider before you go to court, and what to think about while you’re there, how to conduct yourself, and what you can, can’t and must do in the court environment. The course has been revised from our popular The Courts System and Sources of Law.

By the end of the course you will be able to:

  • recognise the essential preliminaries for successfully conducting a civil case,
  • identify essential issues, legal and factual,
  • outline key stages of proceedings and the part a lay advocate may be required to play,
  • assess the strength of cases and identify the most suitable judgment or order,
  • respond to formal documents and draft documents for court,
  • prepare for formal questioning and examination in courts and tribunals,
  • assess whether to appeal and outline judicial review.

 

Preparing Cases for Court

This course will explain the courts system and the skills you’ll need to prepare for a hearing.

By the end of the course you will be able to:

  • describe the English legal system and the structure of civil justice, and identify key sources of law,
  • explain the difference between statute law, regulations and case law, and use key principles to interpret and apply the law in practice,
  • outline the key stages of procedures in the county court system and recognise rules of evidence,
  • provide clients with appropriate advice to ensure effective engagement with the civil justice system, including identifying and preparing court documentation,
  • provide practical advice to clients on presenting their cases before a court or tribunal.

 

Pre-Requisite Learning / Pathway / Accreditation for Prior Learning:

Delegates are required to have successfully completed accredited courses covering the following skills sets, either with the IMA or another MaPS accredited training provider:

  • Initial contact
  • Support work
  • Advice work
  • Casework/specialist

 

For the IMA’s pathway, you must have attended the IMA’s training and passed the tests in each of the following:

  • Giving a Good Service to Clients and
  • Money Advice in Practice (since Autumn 2014)
  • Referrals & Supporting Clients
  • Money Advice Foundations and
  • Managing Cases and Caseloads

 

Individual Certification

Attendees are provided with information about MaPS Accreditation of a particular course by email prior to the course date. This information is contained within the booking confirmation email that an attendee receives to confirm their place on a course.  It explains which Activity Set the course relates to and, where applicable, other courses that need to be completed within that Activity Set. In this case, the attendee will be advised that this course is part of the Court Representation activity set for MaPS accreditation alongside Preparing Cases for Court/Facing Courts & Tribunals. It also explains that in order to obtain MaPS accreditation, there will be an online test for each course which must be passed.

Once the training has been completed they will receive a certificate to confirm this. This contains a footer explaining that this certificate alone is not proof of completing MaPS accredited training. If the delegate has successfully completed all parts of an accredited learning pathway, an additional certificate will be issued.

Once the test is completed, they receive email confirmation to confirm whether they have passed.

Once they have attended the necessary courses for a particular activity set and passed the required tests, in this case Preparing Cases for Court and Facing Courts & Tribunals, they will receive an Activity Set Certificate, confirming their accreditation up to the level of Court Representation.

 

 

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What are the outcomes?

This course is accredited to Court Representation level only. Court representation activity will involve an adviser making preparation for proceedings on behalf of the client, preparing the client for formal proceedings, and/or representing the client in formal proceedings in relation to their debts within the rights of audience for these proceedings.

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