Advocacy

The manual is edited by Snigdha Nag, Barrister, Senior Lecturer, The City Law School

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