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.
1. INTRODUCTION; PREPARING - 2. MOOT PROBLEMS; 3. LEGAL RESEARCH; 4. SKELETON ARGUMENTS; 5. SPEAKING NOTES; 6. AUTHORITIES AND BUNDLES; 7. PRACTICE; APPEARING - 8. PRELIMINARIES; 9. ETIQUETTE; 10. ORAL SUBMISSIONS; 11. JUDICIAL INTERVENTIONS; 12. DELIVERY; ORGANISING - 13. ORGANISING MOOTS; 14. SELECTING AND WRITING MOOT PROBLEMS; 15. ORIGINAL MOOT PROBLEMS; APPENDICES - I. SPECIMEN MOOTING COMPETITION RULES; II. SPECIMEN JUDGE'S SCORE SHEET; III. SAMPLE TEXT FOR FRESHERS FAIR; IV. SAMPLE TEXT FOR JUDGE'S GUIDANCE NOTE.
