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Entries in Advocacy (4)

Thursday
Dec182014

Adventures at conventionville

Global advocacy convention in Taswegia ... Putting The Map on the map ... Federal Court issues hygiene edicts ... Former solicitor general disports himself ... MONA critiqued by judge ... Spanking disturbs UK judge ... A field agent reports 

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Friday
Feb222013

Outrages from the motherland 

Overly aggressive cross-examination in sex case causes outcry ... Questions without solid foundation ... Northern Ireland chief prosecutor gets his solicitor advocates to tog-up ... Bar outraged ... Leverhulme reports from the Old Dart 

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Wednesday
Nov282012

Look at me 

Update ... New mega firm likely to give the bar a run for its money ... Herbert Smith Freehills - taking advocacy in-house ... New design and image based around eyesight and perception 

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Monday
Sep132010

No eye contact, no spontaneity

Being tortured by your students - the trials of trial advocacy instructors ... Lessons of Sir Patrick Hastings - counsel should rely on memory not notes ... Better to observe the witnesses ... "Chris," she cried with her last breath ... London Calling with Leverhulme

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