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Mooting and Advocacy Skills
By
David Pope, Dan Hill
Description
Mooting and
Advocacy Skills is an essential work for all those participating in
and organising mooting competitions. Practical in approach, the work
enables students to do well in moots, while at the same time
establishing the vital skills needed in order to appear in court
either as a barrister or solicitor.
# Covers all
aspects of mooting from legal research and drafting skeleton
arguments to moot court advocacy and organising mooting competitions
# Describes the
key skills of mooting step-by-step, using worked examples and an
illustrative moot problem
# Contains
material, including a number of precedents and templates, that will
assist not only mooters, but also newly qualified solicitors and
barristers who are starting to appear in court
# Answers many of
the questions that mooters typically ask
# Highlights
common pitfalls and explains how to avoid them
Contents
# What mooting is
and why you should do it
# Researching moot
problems
# Drafting
skeleton arguments
# Drafting notes
for submissions
# Moot court
etiquette
# Dealing with
judicial interventions
# Organising
mooting competitions
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