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The Essential Advocate: An Introduction to Advocacy - LAWS3170

Faculty: Faculty of Law

School: Faculty of Law

Course Outline: See below

Campus: Sydney

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Pre-requisite: LEJ (LAWS1230/JURD7130) and RCD (LAWS2371/JURD7271) OR LLS (LAWS1210/JURD7110) and Lit 1 (LAWS2311/JURD7211). Co-requisite: Court Process, Evidence & Proof (LAWS2351/JURD7251) OR Litigation 2 (LAWS2321/JURD7221). Excl: JURD7418, LAWS3318

Excluded: JURD7370

CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

The course is a practical introduction to courtroom advocacy. Students will be exposed to examples of various types of advocates and advocacy techniques and problems found in leading cases, trial transcripts, novels, plays, films, and biographies of advocates. Much of the course is devoted to practical exercises.

Recommended Prior Knowledge

Pre-requisites are Law, Lawyers and Society; Litigation 1; Criminal Law 1. Completion of Litigation 2 and Criminal Law 2 is recommended but not required. Litigation 2 and Criminal Law 2, however, will be co-requisites for students who have not completed them.

Course Objectives

The course aims to foster an understanding of:

the essential attributes of great advocates
the role of the advocate within the trial process
case theory and preparation
the skills and techniques of the trial advocate
the interaction between rules of evidence and the examination of witnesses

Main Topics

The main topics to be discussed are:

Essential qualities and skills of advocates
Advocacy as the art of persuasion
The problems of advocacy: ethics and misconduct
Preparation for trial
Case theory
Evidentiary and procedural issues in practice
Opening and closing addresses
Examination-in-chief and objections
Cross-examination
The use of written and oral submissions

Assessment

40% Major course project: 3000 words
30% Minor course essay: 2000 words
30% Practical advocacy exercises and course participation (15% CP; 15% graded oral excercise)

Course Texts

Prescribed

Mauet & McCrimmon Fundamentals of Trial Techniques

Recommended
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Resources

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