The Language of Advocacy: What to Say and How to Say It in the English-Speaking Courts

ISBN-13: 9781854318350 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 112 str.

Keith Evans

Opis

This work explains the language used by the most successful advocates throughout the English-speaking world, and contributors include distinguished lawyers within these jurisdictions, from the Far-East to the USA. As well as dealing with the words and phrases of advocacy, the book covers other aspects of the technique of communication.

Recenzje

. . . novel and challenging . . . New Law Journal

Spis treści

The Question of Niceness; Who Gets called What: the formal and Informal Ways of Addressing the Judiciary; Why Formality, Anyway?; Dealing with the Multiple-person Courts; The Use of the Word 'Learned'; Putting Your Case; Objections; What Do We Really Mean by the 'Language of Advocacy'?; Interchanges with the Bench; Dealing with Witnesses; Arguing Your Case to the Jury.

O autorze

Keith Evans is a member of both the English and Californian Bars. He practises on both sides of the Atlantic and is a highly regarded teacher of trial advocacy. He is the author of Blackstones The Golden Rules of Advocacy and Advocacy in Court.