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Advocacy The City Law School

Advocacy By The City Law School

Advocacy by The City Law School


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Summary

Advocacy provides a highly practical introduction to the skills and techniques required to deliver submissions and applications in the courts. It covers the full range of courtroom transactions from opening and closing cases, to conducting examination-in-chief, cross-examination, and questioning witnesses.

Advocacy Summary

Advocacy by The City Law School

Written by experienced advocates and advocacy trainers, Advocacy provides an excellent introduction to the skills and techniques required to be an advocate. Coverage includes guidance on making opening and closing speeches; planning and delivering examination-in-chief and cross-examination; questioning witnesses; as well as examples of specific questioning techniques which may be employed in practice. Additionally, authors highlight the ethical boundaries and rules within which an advocate must work. Advocacy covers both criminal and civil court proceedings, and includes a number of how-to-do-it guides illustrating how particular applications should be made when in practice.

About The City Law School

This manual is edited by Robert McPeake, Barrister, Principal Lecturer, The City Law School

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction 1: Introduction 2: The qualities of the advocate 3: Ethics, etiquette, and cross-cultural communication in the courtroom Part II: The Basic Components for Application and Submissions 4: Recognising competence - advocacy skills criteria 5: Preparing for court 6: The content of your application 7: Structuring your application 8: Delivering your application 9: Persuasion Part III: Preparing for Advocacy 10: Your voice and speech 11: Memory and recall 12: Note-taking 13: Modes of address 14: The advocate as storyteller 15: The course of a trial Part IV: Opening and Closing a Case 16: Opening speeches 17: Closing speeches Part V: Witnesses 18: The task ahead 19: Basic components for witness handling 20: Basic questioning skills 21: Examination-in-chief 22: Cross-examination 23: Re-examination Part VI: How-to-do-it Guides 24: Using this Part of the manual 25: Skeleton arguments 26: Default judgments 27: Summary judgments 28: Interim payments 29: Applying for an injunction 30: Applications in the Chancery Division 31: The Companies Court 32: Possession cases 33: Application for a preliminary reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union 34: Applying for costs in a civil case 35: Employment Tribunals 36: Remands/adjournments 37: Bail application 38: Conducting a voir dire or 'trial within a trial' 39: Making a submission of no case to answer 40: Prosecuting a plea of guilty in the Crown Court 41: The plea in mitigation Appendix: A criminal case: R v Heath

Additional information

GOR009888383
9780198823117
0198823118
Advocacy by The City Law School
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
20180809
416
N/A
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