Advocacy e-learning for all courts and tribunals , including interim application hearings, inquests, employment tribunals and immigration tribunals.

Who is it for?
Recommended for lawyers and trainees
- PSC Elective accredited
- PEAT 2 accredited
- Recommended for SQE Gap training
Course content
E-learning overview
This suite of advocacy e-learning courses provides the foundation knowledge and techniques for developing strong advocacy skills for all courts and tribunals, including interim application hearings, inquests, employment tribunals and immigration tribunals.
There are three levels which each look at Communication, Structure and Persuasion. Each level takes between 2 and 3 hours.
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“Your course is the best advocacy e-learning currently on the market and by some margin. While many other courses start and finish with the basics of speaking in court, your course includes subtle and valuable wisdom on how to be an effective thinker, presenter, communicator and persuader. All that is presented in a professionally produced and engaging series of videos and demonstrations that can be taken at a pace entirely of the viewer’s own choosing.”
Stephen – Senior Associate at a major global law firm
Outcomes
As a result of completing this course, you will:
- communicate competently and effectively as an advocate
- use different communication styles to engage and build trust
- frame and deliver your submissions with impact
- structure an application effectively based on the law, your arguments and the evidence
- use a range of techniques to guide a judge
- understand and deploy the key components of a persuasive argument
- avoid common advocacy errors
Content
LEVEL 1
Communication
- Court language
- Nerves, standing and breathing
- Written and spoken English
Structure
- Starting off
- Issues and tests
- Proposition and support
Persuasion
- Case theory
- Coherence and congruence
- Control and choice
LEVEL 2
Communication
- Court officer and partisan advocate
- Variety and modulation
- Start, stop and re-engage
Structure
- Signposts and lists
- Sequences and alternatives
- Overviews and routing
Persuasion
- Trust building
- Anticipation and tracking weaknesses
- Sharing values and experiences
LEVEL 3
Communication
- Case theory
- Coherence and congruence
- Control and choice
Structure
- Trust building
- Anticipation and tracking weaknesses
- Sharing values and experiences
Persuasion
- Cognitive dissonance
- Convention, cliché and risk
- Mysteries, secrets and peril