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Book Description
Persuasive questioning and argument in courts and tribunals need skills in case preparation and techniques of presentation skills that can always be improved, whether the practitioner is renowned or a novice. This book explains the what', the why' and the how' of basic advocacy skills and techniques using four realistic scenarios to illustrate the use of the techniques in practice.
Topics covered include:
knowing the audiencedeveloping the legal and factual casedeveloping a game planmastering the facts, both good and badwitness interviews, the scene, experts' reportsthe argument, including interlocutory applications procedure, pleas-in-mitigation, and the closing addresscourt procedure, protocol, etiquette and the actual experience of being in a courtroomopening statements and questioning witnessespreparing the witness and giving evidencewhen and how to cross-examine witnesses, leading questions, rules of fairness, objections, impeachment, credibility and hearsay.
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