ICLTE study plan

Map the hierarchy of legal sources - constitution, statute, regulation, case law, custom, and international or supranational instruments - for two jurisdictions and label each as binding or persuasive with a one-line justification.

Contrast civil-law and common-law reasoning by writing a short paragraph on how each system treats prior judicial decisions and codified text when a rule is unclear.

Classify 20 supplied source types as primary or secondary and binding or persuasive, noting where the same instrument occupies different ranks in the two systems.

Define 25 foundational system terms - jurisdiction, ratio decidendi, stare decisis, codification, precedent, obiter dictum - in the target language with an English gloss and one usage example each.

Explain in the target language the constituent elements of contract, tort or delict, property, and criminal liability, giving one worked fact pattern per category.

Pair 30 core concept terms with their nearest functional equivalent in the target legal system, explicitly flagging the ones that have no true equivalent.

Translate a 300-word statutory extract and annotate every contested term choice against a named dictionary, code article, or parallel text.

Identify five false-friend or partial-equivalence pairs between English and the target language and document the mistranslation risk each creates.

Reproduce the layout and formulaic components of four document types: a notarised certification block, a judgment header and dispositive section, contract preamble and operative clause, and a power of attorney.

Draft target-language versions of two standard certification and attestation blocks, preserving placeholders, seals, and signature-line positions.

Apply consistent conventions for personal names, case numbers, dates, currency, and statutory citations across a five-document sample set.

Build a personal style sheet recording at least 15 decisions such as capitalisation of party names, italicisation of case names, and numeral formatting.

Draft three professional communications - a client query, a deadline-extension request, and a clarification request on an ambiguous source term - at the correct formal register in the target language.

Convert one informal client email into a formal legal note of about 250 words without adding or dropping any substantive content.

Rewrite ten source sentences to eliminate ambiguity, misplaced modifiers, and source-language interference before translation.

Audit all drafts against a ten-point register checklist covering honorifics, modal verbs, passive constructions, and formulaic closings.

Compile 100 terms spanning Domains 1 to 3 with source citations, target-language equivalents, and a confidence rating, marking at least ten as needing review.

Analyse 15 near-synonym sets - void versus voidable, nullity versus termination, rescission versus cancellation - and state the operative legal difference in one sentence each.

Translate a 500-word judgment extract using the term bank and log every deviation from the bank in a revision log with the reason.

Standardise handling of Latin and archaic formulae such as inter alia, mutatis mutandis, and hereinafter across the translated extract.

Summarise the confidentiality duty in about 200 words, mapping obligations across at least three instruments such as professional codes, data-protection law, and engagement terms.

Analyse four conflict-of-interest scenarios and reach a written accept, decline, or withdraw decision for each with stated reasoning.

Draft a client-facing confidentiality and data-handling notice of about 200 words covering storage, retention, and third-party review.

Define the boundary between translation and legal advice, and list five triggers for referring a matter back to the instructing lawyer.

Run one 500-word project end to end through a CAT workflow with a project translation memory, a linked termbase, and enforced term consistency.

Configure and document at least ten automated quality checks covering numbers, dates, tags, repeated segments, and terminology, and record the false positives each produces.

Design a two-pass revision protocol that separates self-revision from independent review and encode it as a 12-point checklist.

Write a data-security protocol for privileged documents covering encrypted storage, deletion timelines, and vendor-terms review.

Sit two full-length timed mock exams and score both against the marking rubric, section by section.

Re-drill the 25 weakest term-bank entries until two consecutive self-tests are error-free.

Rebuild the sources-of-law table and the ethics decision tree from memory, then correct them against the week 1 and week 6 notes.

Produce a one-page exam-day strategy allocating minutes per section and fixing the order in which sections will be answered.