Mooting and Advocacy Skills (Legal Skills) /
David Pope; Dan Hill
- 3rd ed.
- London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2015.
- VIII, 191 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Introduction Moot Problems -- Legal Research -- Skeleton Arguments -- Speaking Notes -- Authorities And Bundles -- Practice -- Preliminaries -- Etiquette -- Oral Submissions -- Judicial Interventions -- Delivery -- Importance of delivery -- Organising Moots -- Selecting And Writing Moot Problems -- Original Moot Problems.
Mooting and Advocacy Skills is an essential work for all those participating in and organising mooting competitions and curricular moots, written by lawyers with extensive experience of both mooting and advocacy in professional practice.
This 3rd edition: covers all aspects of mooting from constructing persuasive arguments to answering questions from the judge; describes the key skills of advocacy step-by-step; demonstrates advocacy skills using an illustrative moot problem and numerous worked examples; contains 10 original moot problems covering six core subjects on the legal curriculum.