Essential Legal Skills: Advocacy

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This work is one of seven texts in the Essential Legal Skills series, which is designed for undergraduate students on skills programmes and for all students of the Legal Practice Courses and Bar Vocational Course.

Each text includes an accessible theoretical framework for understanding each legal skill; numerous practical exercises; easy-to-use models for effective planning and preparation; illustrations and examples from a wide variety of practice areas; post-task self-assessment and improvement guides; and a variety of practical tips and advice from experienced skills teachers.

This book in the series introduces the practice of advocacy, drawing on a wide range of examples from the United Kingdom and other common law jurisdictions. Through the use of exercises, the reader is encouraged to think about effective advocacy. Detailed materials offer civil and criminal advocacy simulations.