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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 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 APPLICATIONS 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. You and your voice ; 11. Memory and recall ; 12. Note-taking ; 13. Modes of address ; 14. The advocate as a 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 European Court of Justice ; 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. 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

GOR005457750
9780199657315
0199657319
Advocacy by The City Law School
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
20120816
408
N/A
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