Video: There Are Two Sides to Every Story

There is an increasing pressure on all professionals to be good communicators as well as good technicians. Yet many of the skills that enable us to interact successfully with people - personal communication, negotiation and interviewing - come from experience.

So, can experience be taught? Conventinal wisdom says 'no'. This new series of training videos from the Inns of Court School of Law sets out to prove otherwise.

With the dramatised examples used in these training videos, practitioners can begin to incorporate the 'golden rules' of communication in their own personal styles

Video 3. There are Two Sides to Every Story

Video 3 follows the progress of the same case and considers the essential skills which are vital for advocates to acquire in order to effectively conduct their case in court.

Tim Brooke-Taylor and a fellow would-be advocate perform the tasks of examination-in chief and cross-examination under the watchful eye of a judge and two barristers, who not only criticise their performances, but also demonstrate how it can be done more effectively.