CPD Selection Day: Session 3B: Improving Your Advocacy Skills - 3LS
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Code: 103W13F |
| Date: |
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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| Time: |
2:00 PM until 5:15 PM |
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Parmelia Hilton Perth, 14 Mill Street, Perth
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| Price: |
$440.00 |
| If this title is relevant to your immediate or long term needs in relation to your professional development and practice of the law, then you can claim 3 "units" for attending |
| Chair: |
Mr Iain Freeman, Partner, Lavan Legal
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Presenter
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Maximising the Impact of Opening and Closing Statements
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Ms Judith Fordham, Barrister, Howard Chambers
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• Opening: To open or not?; tailoring your delivery style to the case; defining the issues and planting the seed
• Closing: Written or not?; Structure, clarity and repetition
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Using Instructions and Statements of Evidence to Establish/the Case/ Prove the Defence
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Mr Philip Clifford, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
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• Getting the story out - the object of Examination in Chief
• Devaluing the evidence: the prohibition on leading questions
• Documentary evidence and the Best Evidence Rule
• Meeting problems with your evidence head on
• Refreshing memory, unfavourable and hostile witnesses and using cross-examination to set up your submissions |
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Cross-Examination of Expert Witnesses
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Mr Peter MacMillan, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
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• Preparation and cross-referencing
• Avoiding unnecessary cross-examination
• Controlling the witness
• Avoiding re-examination
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