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Advocacy
Sixteenth Edition
The City Law School
408 pages
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292x206mm
978-0-19-965731-5
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Paperback
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16 August 2012
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- Providing practical guidance on all typical courtroom transactions, the manual ensures the trainee barrister is fully equipped with the skills required to undertake successful advocacy in courts and tribunals.
- A variety of 'how-to-do-it' guides familiarise novice advocates with the operation of advocacy in both civil and criminal courts.
- Illustrations of specific questioning techniques show how to successfully conduct examination-in-chief and cross-examination.
- A chapter on drafting skeleton arguments shows novice advocates how to construct strong, persuasive arguments in support of their case
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.Readership: Students studying on the Bar Professional Training Course; junior barristers.
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The City Law School This manual is edited by Robert McPeake, Barrister, Principal Lecturer, The City Law School Contributors:
Authors
Evan Ashfield, Barrister, Lincoln's Inn
Susan Blake, Barrister, Associate Dean, The City Law School
Colin Bobb-Semple, Solicitor, Senior Lecturer, The City Law School
Elizabeth Cassie, Independent Voice and Communication Skills Adviser
Paul Corben, Barrister, Gray's Inn
David Emmet, Barrister, Senior Lecturer, The City law School
Judy Harris, Independent Voice and Communication
Skills Adviser
Frances Hastings, Barrister, former Senior Lecturer, The City Law School
Stuart Lindsay, Barrister, Lecturer, The City Law School
Debbie Lithman, Barrister, former Principal Lecturer, ICSL
Robert McPeake, Barrister, Principal Lecturer, The City Law School
Snigdha Nag, Barrister, Senior Lecturer, The City Law School.
Conor Quigley, Queen's Counsel, Gray's Inn
Suzanne Reece, Solicitor, Lecturer, The City Law School
Charles Scott, Barrister, Middle Temple
Stuart Sime, Barrister, BPTC Course Director, The City Law School
Margot Taylor, Solicitor, former Principal Lecturer, The City Law School
Editor
Robert McPeake, Barrister, Principal
Lecturer, The City Law School
Series Editor
Julie Browne, Barrister, Senior Lecturer, The City Law School
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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
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The specification in this catalogue, including without limitation price, format, extent, number of illustrations, and month of publication, was as accurate as possible at the time the catalogue was compiled. Occasionally, due to the nature of some contractual restrictions, we are unable to ship a specific product to a particular territory. Jacket images are provisional and liable to change before publication.
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