• 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.

   

   

   

• 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

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