The training combines a comprehensive suite of e-learning with 121 coaching so you can practise your advocacy and receive expert feedback. This flexible approach includes expert guidance and over 45 advocacy demonstrations.
Our examination in chief training is ideal when studying to become a barrister or when preparing for the Higher Rights of Advocacy assessment.
Course Information
Who is it for?
- Students on the Bar Practice Course
- Lawyers taking the Bar Transfer Test
- Solicitors studying for the Higher Rights of Advocacy Assessment
Course content
Overview
This course is presented and authored by James Welsh. He trained and practised as a barrister, and has spent more than 20 years as an advocacy trainer. Having trained and assessed literally thousands of candidates across all the main professional advocacy assessments, (including Bar assessments, Higher Rights and the Bar Transfer Test) the course incorporates the very best of all techniques that James has used, and picked up over the years.
Examination-in-chief can be an exercise in simply transferring knowledge from the witness to the judge or jury, but it can also be about building trust and confidence in the witness’s evidence. The course explores how to achieve these objectives, whilst ensuring that you do not lead the witness in any way.
The course has three levels, with each level covering three topics: Purpose, Strategy and Structure; Questioning Technique; and Communication. The modules contain over 45 video demonstrations so that you can see the advocacy techniques in practice.
Content
| Module | Section |
| Level 1 | |
| Purpose, Strategy & Structure | Topics & themes |
| Chronologies | |
| Questioning Technique | Questions types – the fundamentals
|
| Communication | Communication when gathering data |
| Communication when developing credibility | |
| Level 2 | |
| Purpose, Strategy & Structure | Creating structure plans |
| Chapters in chronologies | |
| Transitions | |
| Questioning Technique | Piggy backing |
| Gateway questions | |
| Invitations | |
| Multiple choice | |
| Communication | Fillers – what happens the moment after a witness has answered a question |
| Level 3 | |
| Purpose, Strategy & Structure | Dealing with the other side’s case |
| Questioning Technique | Questions you should not ask |
| Communication | Controlling pace |
Outcomes
As a result of completing this training you will
- Know how to plan an examination-in-chief
- Know how to conduct an effective examination-in-chief
- Know why and how to avoid leading the witness
- Have strategies for dealing with the other side’s case
Duration
E-learning – approx. 3 hours
Coaching session – 45 mins
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