Court and Tribunal advocacy requires practical skills. The episodes in this Podcast explain and illustrate the skills that advocates need in any adversarial system.
Episodes are up to 15 minutes, so easily fitted into your busy day. Although the episodes follow a logical order each one is 'stand alone', because every advocate has different needs.
With near 10,500 hits ( October 2024) this free series is helping those who want to be better advocates.
An inexpensive, companion book with the same title ADVOCACY IN COURT: PREPARATION AND PERFORMANCE is on Amazon Kindle.
Please tell other 'wanna to be better' advocates AND get your witnesses to listen to the WITNESS ESSENTIALS podcast.
For questions and comments email hughmselby@gmail.com
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Court and Tribunal advocacy requires practical skills. The episodes in this Podcast explain and illustrate the skills that advocates need in any adversarial system.
Episodes are up to 15 minutes, so easily fitted into your busy day. Although the episodes follow a logical order each one is 'stand alone', because every advocate has different needs.
With near 10,500 hits ( October 2024) this free series is helping those who want to be better advocates.
An inexpensive, companion book with the same title ADVOCACY IN COURT: PREPARATION AND PERFORMANCE is on Amazon Kindle.
Please tell other 'wanna to be better' advocates AND get your witnesses to listen to the WITNESS ESSENTIALS podcast.
For questions and comments email hughmselby@gmail.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We look at the importance of the prevailing atmospherics at both the case preparation and performance stages.
Examples are given of 'atmospherics'.
The use that you can make of such atmospherics as an advocacy tool is explained.
Opening statements and Closing addresses are discussed with 'atmospherics' in mind.
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Although we have expectations of competence and integrity from the other 'actors' in litigation there are those who are 'bad actors'. They are drawn from police, other lawyers, media and the judicial/tribunal officers before whom we run cases.
Experience brings some ability to respond to such improper conduct; however, at any time in one's career it is important to have one or more mentors from whom good and timely advice can be sought.
This episode describes some of the bad acts that you are likely to encounter. It also provides some hints as to how you can respond.
Always try to keep in mind that bad acts by others are not a reason for you to do the same. Your clients, your colleagues, and our community depend upon our willingness to stand up to bad acts by clear, timely, appropriate 'calling it out'. That is much easier said than done but, as with everything in advocacy, preparation helps our performance.
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This so-called rule of fairness afflicts the defence in both criminal and civil cases. We examine what the rule may require, how to pose questions that comply, how its application and consequences vary between criminal and civil cases.
Episode 19, 'Bad things happen' - how you need to be prepared - released on 28 May 2022.
Episode 20, all about interacting with jurors, especially in opening and closing, is being prepared in June 2022
By the way, if you've gone to the trouble to listen to episodes 18 and 19 then delve into the podcasts on cross examination. There's useful material there that you haven't read and haven't heard about. Explore, enjoy, engage.
Also available on Kindle by Hugh Selby, with examples of Chief/Direct and Cross in fictional settings: Liar Games; and, The Bone Cancer
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This podcast series aims to help you as an advocate in courts or tribunals. It is about approaches, guidelines, suggestions. It is not about rules. The content will be helpful because thinking about the issues, how they can be approached, how to ask questions and make submissions, and how to deal with the stress that you, and your witnesses will experience, do not know boundaries of legal system, language, or background.
The topics discussed in the series are listed. The structure of the podcasts is laid out, including the background story of 'Jack and Jill that is used to illustrate the techniques, tips and explanations. The framework within which all court room advocacy - both for preparation and performance - must take place is discussed.
Each episode is about 15 minutes or less.
Depending on your experience and immediate needs you can listen to episodes in any order.
Hopefully what you learn from these episodes will allow you to develop a winning personal style of advocacy .
An easy to read and use, affordable, companion book with the same title Advocacy in Court: preparation and performance, by Hugh Selby, is available on Amazon Kindle.
And for witnesses and their lawyers who are looking for all that witnesses need to know to prepare and be a witness, see the podcast series ' Witness Essentials'.
Also available on Kindle by Hugh Selby, with examples of Chief/Direct and Cross in fictional settings: Liar Games; and, The Bone Cancer.
Another podcast series, just 7 short episodes, appealing to anyone with an interest in failings in our justice system is ' The Man who wasn't There'.
Finally, if you like what you hear then tell other people and review these podcasts so that others benefit. Cheers, hughmselby@gmail.com
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