Advocacy
'Painstaking preparation means that luck will run your way'. Advocacy explains how to win cases in court. Focusing on the techniques and methods of successful advocates, David Ross QC shows how to prepare a case for court. Written in simple, clear language he gives the benefit of his many years of local and international experience as he describes
• how to hold a court's attention
• how to start and stop a witness
• how to cross-examine all types of people, from liars to experts
• the methods of taking objections to questions
• how to address a jury
• how to follow etiquette and behave ethically
• how to win impossible cases.
All the principles of advocacy are explained, from the striking start to knowledge of human affairs, and Advocacy is rich with examples taken from real cases.
- An invaluable resource tool for graduate students entering the legal profession and for practitioners
- Written by an experienced QC
- Gives real examples for readers to learn from
Reviews & endorsements
'The virtues of the book are its clarity and simplicity. … The book is a straightforward first introduction to advocacy, and it fulfils its function very well. It provides a firm foundation and explanation of basic techniques and practical common sense from which the young advocate will be able to build and add nuance and shape from his or her own experience.' The Cambridge Law Journal
Product details
No date availablePaperback
9780521611176
156 pages
228 × 152 × 13 mm
0.207kg
Table of Contents
- 1. The nature of advocacy
- 2. Preparation
- 3. Witnesses and questions
- 4. Examination-in-chief
- 5. Cross-examination: its qualities
- 6. Cross-examination: method and style
- 7. Cross-examination of experts
- 8. Cross-examination on documents
- 9. Re-examination
- 10. Admissibility, objections, submissions
- 11. The addresses
- 12. Plea in mitigation
- 13. Etiquette and ethics.
