Bar Manual: Advocacy 22nd ed

The only manuals supporting students on Bar courses, providing detailed coverage of the key laws, rules and procedures alongside practical exercises.

• 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 familiarize 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
• Diversity and inclusion principles are fully recognised within the coverage of ethics, etiquette, and cross-cultural communication, enabling students to develop the skills necessary to practice with consideration of these important issues
• The significance of video calling platforms and home working is acknowledged throughout, ensuring students' understanding of process is compatible with modern working practices

Contents:

Part I: Introduction

1:Introduction

2:The qualities of the advocate

3:Ethics, etiquette, and cross-cultural communication in the courtoom

 

Part II: The Basic Components for Application and Submissions

4:Recognising competence - advocacy skills criteria

5:Preparing the 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 advocates 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 IV: 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 injuction

30:Applications in the Chancery Division

31:The Companies Court

32:Possession cases

33:Applying for costs in a civil case

34:Employment Tribunals

35:Remands/adjournments

36:Bail application

37:Conducting a voir dire or 'trial within a trial'

38:Making a submission of no case to answer

39:Prosecuting a plea of guilty in the Crown Court

40:The plea in mitigation

 

Appendix:A criminal case: R v Heath