Winning Advocacy Techniques
Issues covered include: practical advice for young advocates, trial preparation, re-examination, evidence in chief, cross examination
Description
Spend the morning with seasoned litigators to gain a deeper appreciation of advocacy techniques and strategies to improve your practice and your results inside and outside the courtroom.
Attend and earn 4 CPD hours in Professional Skills
This seminar was recorded in QLD on 28 August 2019
Chair: Tim Matthews QC, Inns of Court
9.00am to 10.00am: Advocacy: An Olympic Event
- Preparation: training for fitness and training for an event
- Importance of written outline submissions, chronologies and other documents
- Understanding the competition
- How to win even when you don’t
Presented by Jane Fitzgerald, Barrister, Alfred Lutwyche Chambers
10.00am to 11.00am: Practical Advice for Young Advocates or How to Make a Judge Smile with Pleasure
- Ethics of advocacy including your duty to the Court
- Etiquette of advocacy
- Advocacy is everything you do
- Documents you should take to Court
- Communication at Court
Presented by Pippa Colman, Director, Pippa Colman and Associates
11.15am to 12.15pm: Preparing for Trial, Evidence-in-Chief and Re-examination
- Tips for advancing the quality of your witnesses’ evidence, both oral and written
- Essential pre-trial steps: Notices to Admit, Trial Bundles, pre-trial directions hearings
- Leading evidence without leading question
- Effectively dealing with unfavourable and hostile witnesses
- Mastering re-examination
Presented by David Topp, Barrister, Bank of NSW Chambers
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea
12.15pm to 1.15pm: Cross Examination for Success
- Purposes of cross-examination
- Leading questions
- Technique
- Methods of discrediting a witness and the finality rule
- Particular issues with expert witnesses, for and against you
Prepared by Anand Shah, Barrister, Carbolic Group Chambers; Nationally Accredited Mediator
Venue
Mercure Brisbane
Level 2, 85-87 North Quay
Brisbane 4000
QLD
Australia
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