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TOLES Advanced Certificate in Legal English Skills

Why Attend

This course is designed to develop advanced legal English skills at a level required for the TOLES Advanced examination and for high-level legal practice. Participants will work with complex legal and commercial texts to strengthen precision in legal vocabulary, collocations, and grammar, while developing the ability to interpret meaning accurately in context.

The course places particular emphasis on analysing legal language as it appears in contracts, litigation materials, and business law scenarios, enabling participants to evaluate legal concepts and linguistic nuance with confidence. Alongside language development, the course equips participants with exam-focused reading and decision-making strategies, ensuring they can apply accurate legal reasoning under time pressure.

By the end of the course, participants will not only be well prepared for the TOLES Advanced examination, but will also enhance their ability to engage confidently and accurately with sophisticated legal English in an international professional environment

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Overview
Course Methodology

The course consists of group discussions as well as individual and team tasks. There will be writing exercises and practice exams at the end of each day, culminating in sitting a mock TOLES Advanced Exam on the final day of the course.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Utilize advanced legal grammar to interpret obligations, rights, conditions, and limitations accurately
  • Apply correct legal collocations and fixed expressions to distinguish subtle differences in meaning
  • Evaluate core commercial and business law concepts within legally embedded examination scenarios
  • Optimise exam-focused legal reading strategies to identify key information and select precise answers
  • Implement effective TOLES Advanced examination techniques to improve speed, accuracy, and performance
Target Audience

This course is designed for legal professionals who work, or intend to work, in English-language legal environments and who require advanced proficiency in legal English. It is particularly suitable for practising lawyers, in-house counsel, and legal professionals seeking to prepare for the TOLES Advanced examination.

The course is also appropriate for experienced legal practitioners from civil law and common law jurisdictions who regularly engage with complex commercial, contractual, or dispute-related legal materials in English and who wish to enhance precision, accuracy, and confidence in their legal language skills.

Target Competencies
  • Legal English vocabulary proficiency
  • Interpretation of legal texts and clauses
  • Commercial and corporate legal structures
  • Litigation and dispute resolution language
  • Exam readiness
Note

The Dubai Government Legal Affairs Department has introduced a Continuing Legal Professional Development (CLPD) programme to legal consultants authorised to practice through a licensed firm in the Emirate of Dubai.  We are proud to announce that the Dubai Government Legal Affairs Department has accredited EMG Associates as a CLPD provider. In addition, all our legal programmes have been approved.

CLPD Code for this course is BB18-07 and it carries 4 CLPD points.

Course Outline
  • Contract Law Language and Terminology
    • Contract formation terminology
    • Contractual obligations language
    • Conditions and warranties
    • Remedies and damages terms
    • Limitation of liability clauses
    • Termination provisions language
    • Clause analysis exercise
  • Company Law and Commercial Structures
    • Company incorporation terminology
    • Share capital concepts
    • Directors’ duties language
    • Corporate governance vocabulary
    • Partnerships and sole traders
    • Corporate liability terminology
    • Structure comparison exercise
    • Corporate case discussion
  • Dispute Resolution and Litigation Language
    • Civil procedure terminology
    • Claims and pleadings language
    • Evidence and remedies vocabulary
    • Settlement and enforcement terms
    • Court decisions language
    • Liability and negligence concepts
  • Insolvency, Employment, and Intellectual Property
    • Insolvency proceedings terminology
    • Liquidation and administration language
    • Employment contract terminology
    • Termination and dismissal language
    • Intellectual property protection terms
    • Licensing and assignment language
  • TOLES Advanced Examination Skills
    • Examination structure familiarity
    • Question type recognition
    • Legal text interpretation strategies
    • Vocabulary precision techniques
    • Time management strategies
    • Answer selection logic
    • Timed mock exercise
    • Group answer analysis
    • Exam review
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Test of Legal English Skills (TOLES®)

The Test of Legal English Skills (TOLES) is the world’s leading Legal English examination for lawyers, law students and legal translators. Started in 2000 to test vocational Legal English skills for practicing lawyers and professionals, TOLES offers three levels of exams: 1) TOLES Foundation; 2) TOLES Higher; and 3) TOLES Advanced. The TOLES exams are issued by Global Legal English, members of the International Division of the Law Society of England and Wales, and offered around the world, including in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.

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Schedule & Fees
2026 Schedule & Fees
Per participant
  • 11 - 15 Oct, 2026
  • English
  • Dubai
  • Venue to be assigned
Fees + VAT as applicable (including coffee breaks and a buffet lunch daily) Discount Plans & Cancellations Policy

Meirc reserves the right to alter dates, content, venue, trainer, and to offer courses in an integrated virtual learning (IVL) format whereby face to face classroom participants and virtual learners participate simultaneously in the same course in an interactive learning experience.

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Course Contact
Alissar N.
+971 56 682 4136
[email protected]
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