Immigration – Reaccreditation Assessment Regulations and ... - Clt

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contact Details........................................................................................................................ 5
Section 1 – Re-accreditation, the process and bookings........................................................ 6
1.1 What is re-accreditation? ................................................................................................ 6
2.1 How do I book? ............................................................................................................... 6
3.1 Do I have to pay a Registration Fee?.............................................................................. 6
4.1 What is the Transfer and Cancellation Policy? ............................................................... 6
5.1 Equality and Diversity...................................................................................................... 7
Section 2 – The Syllabus and the Assessments..................................................................... 8
2.1 The Law Society’s Written Standards ............................................................................. 8
2.2 The Immigration and Asylum Accreditation Scheme (IAAS)........................................... 8
2.3 The Re-accreditation Assessments ................................................................................ 9
Section 3 – The Assessment Procedures and Protocols...................................................... 11
3.1 Location of Assessments .............................................................................................. 11
3.2 Policy on Supporting Candidates with Disabilities ........................................................ 11
3.3 Identification ..................................................................................................................13
3.4 Examination/Assessment Regulations.......................................................................... 13
3.5 Marking and Moderation Process ................................................................................. 14
3.6 Overriding fault in English ............................................................................................. 15
3.6.1Overriding Faults........................................................................................................... 15
3.7 Re-sits........................................................................................................................... 16
3.8 The Assessment Board................................................................................................. 17
3.9 Candidate behaviour ..................................................................................................... 17
3.10 Notification of Results ................................................................................................... 18
3.11 Scheme Membership and Certificates .......................................................................... 18
3.12 Mitigating/Extenuating Circumstances, Complaints and Appeals ................................. 18
3.13 Complaints .................................................................................................................... 19
3.14 Appeals .........................................................................................................................19
3.15 Candidate Services ....................................................................................................... 19
3.17 Candidate Confidentiality .............................................................................................. 19
3.18 Correspondence from Third Parties .............................................................................. 20
3.19 Provision of Assessment Scripts................................................................................... 20
3.20 Provision of Pass and Fail Rates .................................................................................. 20
Section 4 – Training Programmes ........................................................................................ 21
4. Training Programmes.................................................................................................... 21
Section 5 – Appendices ........................................................................................................ 22
Appendix A............................................................................................................................ 23
The Procedure for Dealing with Allegations of Cheating ...................................................... 23
Appendix B............................................................................................................................ 31
Permitted Materials ............................................................................................................... 31
Appendix C ........................................................................................................................... 32
Complaints Policy and Procedure......................................................................................... 32
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