• The learner will be able to assist members of the community by dealing with limited legal problems in a very cost effective and sometimes free advice.
• The purpose of the qualification is to provide the qualifying learner with a basic knowledge and understanding of the South Africa legal system, fundamental laws, their application and social context so as to enable the learner to provide supervised support and assistance in a paralegal environment.
• Qualifying learner will be able to apply fundamental knowledge and understanding of law to a specific problem within the South African legal context.
• Apply appropriate technology in order to conduct legal research on behalf of a legal or paralegal practitioner.
• Communicate with internal and external clients in a paralegal or legal workplace.
• Guide and refer clients in a paralegal context.
• Assist in solving problems in a paralegal context by working in a team and individually.
• Provide administrative and organizational support in an office environment.
• Exercise ethical conduct, values and professionalism when dealing with all clients.
• This qualification is meant to prepare qualifying learners for supervised practice as paralegal assistants in all sectors of the industry, which includes:
• Community-based paralegal Advice Offices.
• Non-Governmental organizations (Trade Unions, School Governing Bodies, Pre-Schools.
• Public Institutions (Magistrate Courts and Higher Courts).
• Commercial Institutions (Banks).
• Private Practices (Law firms: Attorneys, Advocates Offices, Legal Aid board Offices)
• Private Companies (Small, Major Companies, e.g. Mines, Parastatals.
This qualification will provide a career-path for those qualifying learners intending to further their studies in all sectors of the paralegal or legal profession. The portable unit standard format allows specific unit standards to contribute to qualifications in the legal, development, public administration and commercial fields. This qualification will facilitate the accumulation of credits through institutionalized and workplace learning. The qualification also provides learners who have gained relevant experience in the workplace with an opportunity to gain credits through a RPL process.
We also guarantee that the Learners will receive direct contact lectures from our best and experienced Attorneys, as well as Labour Law Experts.
The Financial and IT Unit Standards will be provided by suitably qualified Lecturers.
Xulu-Makhathini Consultants also undertakes to ensure that the Top Ten Learners will be permanently placed within most of the participating Attorneys around Middelburg.
We will also place them within Xulu-Makhathini Consultants businesses, as well as with the other companies which have affiliated with Xulu Makhathini Consultants.
We will assist some to establish a Community based Paralegal Practice Centres to assist members of the Communities, by working with Injongo Yokusizakala NPO.
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