A practical guide to lawyering skills

Lawyering skills are increasingly part of undergraduate law degrees as well essential elements in the postgraduate vocational law courses, the LPC and the BVC. This fully updated third edition continues to bring together the theory and practice of these skills in an accessible and practical context. The authors draw on their vast experience of law in practice to develop the core skills taught on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Skills covered include:  written communication mediation information technology opinion writing drafting advocacy interviewing negotiation legal research. Each chapter uses diagrams, boxes, lists and flow charts to further explain and develop each skill and ends with a further reading section.  A Practical Guide to Lawyering Skills is essential reading for all undergraduate and vocational law students seeking to develop the necessary skills to work successfully with law in the twenty-first century.

A Practical Guide to Lawyering Skills

Boyle, Fiona

Plowden, Philip

Capps, Deveral

Sandford, Clare

Legal Education

Cavendish Pub Ltd

A Practical Guide to Lawyering Skills - a book for all law students. A guide that brings together the theory and practice of lawyering skills in an accessible and practical context which will be of use for all law students. The book looks at how skills are taught and assessed both on undergraduate and vocational courses, and helps students to see skills as an integral element of law in both its academic and practical context. A Practical Guide to Lawyering Skills provides a key introduction to the fundamental skills of writing and drafting, interviewing and advising, research, opinion writing and advocacy, while also introducing students to the key skills needed by modern lawyers, such as information technology. Written to provide students with guidance and support in developing their lawyering skills across both undergraduate and vocational courses, the book draws on the authors' long experience as both academics and practitioners, both as solicitors and barristers. All the authors teach both on the vocational law courses and on the undergraduate exempting degree with its integrated approach to the teaching of legal skills across the undergraduate curriculum. A Practical Guide to Lawyering Skills is the essential guide to legal skills for all law students as they develop the skills that they need to work with law in its 21st century context.

Routledge-Cavendish

The Human Rights Act 1998 was fully implemented in October 2000,and since then it has become clear how fundamentally the Act will challenge all aspects of our legal system. As Sir Stephen Sedley said in his 2000 Eldon lecture: the courts are going to be dependent as never before on the advocates who come before them for knowledgeable and balanced argument about the Convention. This book provides advocates with a guide to the preparation and presentation of Convention-based arguments before domestic courts and tribunals. It analyses recent domestic and Strasbourg case law and sets out points for advocates covering the different issues which may need to be addressed in each area. The book shows advocates how to provide courts with structured and effective guidance on the application of the Human Rights Act, ensuring that they are able to identify and to promote human rights arguments in advancing their clients case.

Advocacy and Human Rights Act

Constitutional Law

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