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Doing diagnostics: accounting for progress in student communications and advocacy

developing this proficiency, as successful advocacy is dependent upon it. One way to monitor progress in this area is by offering diagnostics to assess speaking challenges and highlight speaking proficiency. Current technology facilitates this, so that students may easily and …

Whose 'version' of the facts? Working on the margins of outsiders' stories and lawyers' theories of the case

preparation methodologies and courtroom advocacy skills in a ‘truer’ context – in the presenters’ experience, one that takes into account the common law adversarial system in which individual defendants are pitched against the machinery of state prosecuti…

Are we MAD? Introducing mooting and debating at a law firm

practice is often regarded as a provider of advocacy training, focusing on the practical issues and developing lawyers’ public speaking skills and technical knowledge. Irwin Mitchell is currently embarking on an experiment to integrate these two worlds into one, offering…

General transferable skills: Nottingham Trent University

technology, carry out legal research and advocacy. In terms of teamwork students are encouraged, in a final year module to produce group coursework which is then assessed. Alternatively students opt to work individually. Information technology is assessed as part of the l…

Humanising legal education through valuing and nurturing multiple intelligences

role of lawyers? Apparently in the role of advocacy – affecting such aspects as rhythm, pitch, mnemonics. If the full range of intelligences can be evidenced within the legal profession, why is this not evident in the delivery of legal education? About KirstenKirst…

Legal education in Northern Ireland

Belfast (2009) Exploring the link between advocacy and actor training – paper on the potential of actor training techniques to help teach advocacy skills, with examples from Queen’s University Belfast (2006) Evaluation as a method of assessment – case study…

Making choices about lawyers' ethics: integrating an ethical dimension into a simulation

prosecution or defence lawyer in a negotiation or advocacy exercise. The scenario instructions comprise a statement of agreed facts, witness statements and special instructions. The students need to select evidence that supports their ‘theory of the case’, while anti…

General transferable skills: College of Law, York

research, interviewing and advising, and advocacy) are separately assessed. Students are provided with a criteria sheet for each skill so that they know what is expected of them and how the skill will be assessed. Negotiation is taught and practised on the course, but is no…

Effective learning and teaching in law

Soetendorp (University of Bournemouth) The new advocacy: implications for legal education and teaching practice – Julia Macfarlane (University of Windsor, Canada) Space, time and (e)motions of learning law – Abdul Paliwala (UKCLE) Ordering details Order onl…

Designing and delivering clinical legal education

sharing his experiences of the Community Advocacy Clinic at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University, USA. …

Learning law in Scotland

of the UK, are specialists in the art of advocacy (the expert presentation of a case in court) and in advising clients on every aspect of litigation. The Law Society of Scotland is the governing body for Scottish solicitors, while the Faculty of Advocates plays the same role f…

References and further reading

al (2002) ‘A digital programme for advocacy’ 36 The Law Teacher 15 Webb J (2002) Portfolio-based learning and assessment in law (UKCLE teaching resource note) …

General transferable skills: University of Essex

day lives. The course is assessed by an advocacy exercise, for which training is given, and by a report or an independent visit to court, for which an essay prize is given. This is run as voluntary additional course for which a certificate is awarded. 50 students take part e…

General transferable skills: communication

formal exercises At advanced level: advocacy and debating: present a legal argument to a knowledgeable group. Having had a short time to prepare. Show the ability to face challenges from that audience and respond. role play exercises: participation in which students asses…

General transferable skills: definition

example the DRAIN skills (drafting, research, advocacy, interviewing and advising, and negotiation) in vocational courses. Though often taught rather narrowly as peculiarly legal skills, these skills are obviously capable of much wider application. For example, advocacy an…

Interdisciplinary training

and extensive skills training, including advocacy and case analysis. There are mock trials within most of the subject areas. Most of the time the witnesses are fellow students. An interdisciplinary approach to education is reflective of many areas of legal practice. In its fi…

Chair's report: Jane Ching

involving, for example, client interviews and advocacy exercises. This move to capture a “more rounded picture of lawyerly performance” than has hitherto been possible will be of particular interest to those involved in skills teaching, at the vocational stage or elsewhere.…

Weights and methods of assessment on vocational courses

basis): Research 2 - 2 - Writing 1 - 1 - Drafting 1 - 1 - Advocacy 1 (oral) - 1 - Interviewing 1 (oral) - 1 - Accounts (assessed on competent/non-competent basis) 2 - 2 - Total 18 100% 14 100% In addition to the assessments shown above, ‘pervasive̵…

General transferable skills: project rationale

lawyers (the DRAIN skills of drafting, research, advocacy, interviewing and advising, and negotiation) and those skills required by employers of many other non-law careers. Seven core skills were extracted and used as a framework for the survey and the following examples …

What forms can clinic take?

they provide primarily case preparation and advocacy services (for example, for the Free Representation Unit) a ‘cause lawyering’ orientation where the emphasis is as much on campaigning or education as it is on ‘conventional’ legal representation of a …

Can mooting be staged throughout a course?

party – it involves the full range of advocacy and the discrimination of sources etc. One approach could be to use mooting incrementally throughout the years of study. It may be that staff think an advantage of mooting is the development of higher level skills (see What …

General transferable skills: City Law School

specifically taught on the course: advocacy negotiation conference skills opinion writing drafting legal research case management In addition the following options are taught in a skills context: criminal law family law employment law landlord and…

How many students are required in a moot?

students specialise in research and leave the advocacy to other students (Ringel, 2004). This can only be considered beneficial, allowing a greater concentration on critical thinking and research skills. It can also be a useful way of incrementally increasing the exposure of stu…

Clinical legal education and extracurricular law clinic

their cases, including court and tribunal advocacy, as well as for much clinic management, including case allocation, file monitoring, the organisation of training, policy development and ethical decision making. In addition, advice on cases is provided by law school staff and a…

The essential synergy between assessment and learning in skills-based legal practice courses

Procedure) and some skills-based courses (Advocacy and Accounts). The course was subject-based, with each subject being taught concurrently throughout the whole year on a ‘long and thin’ model. The Willoughby course was enduring, lasting in its basic form for 30 year…

Why do you want to assess a moot?

students present their solutions through advocacy (Gillespie, 2007). The 2006 survey noted that there were examples of mooting being used as an innovative assessment tool. In some institutions it was used within a substantive module as an alternative to other forms of assessment…

Why mooting?

not just to perform but to be advocates. Advocacy means much more than simply presenting (Fox & Bell, 1999), and it is this combination of problem solving skills, the application of legal rules and advocacy which is unique about mooting. Moots undoubtedly are time consumin…

Guidelines for good practice in sharing resources in law

participation in institutional repositories advocacy work required to engage the legal education community in resource sharing issues What is law school culture: what is important to the academic lawyer – team versus individual concerns reluctance of the legal educatio…

General transferable skills: University of Southampton

problem-solving, presentation, communication and advocacy skills. Presentations and role plays also form part of the tutorials which are occasionally assessed. Role play exercises Role play 1 concerns learning ways of arguing on your feet. It involves giving students a …

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