Advocacy Skills Course Oct. 2023 (14 hours CPD time) - FULLY BOOKED
Mon 09 Oct
|Glasgow
Improve your advocacy skills with the Royal Faculty's advocacy course - designed to provide an opportunity for young lawyers to gain experience in advocacy and prepare court lawyers for appearance in court.


Time & Location
09 Oct 2023, 17:00 – 30 Oct 2023, 19:00
Glasgow, 12 Nelson Mandela Pl, Glasgow G2 1BT, UK
About the event
The Royal Faculty has designed a short course on advocacy skills intended to provide training and an opportunity for young lawyers to gain experience in advocacy and prepare court lawyers for appearance in court. The course will be delivered by experienced practitioners with input from sheriffs. Attendees will be provided course notes, work in small groups and receive written feedback and bespoke expert guidance. The emphasis is on the individual attendee carrying out various basic advocacy tasks before a sheriff and receiving personal feedback - it will cover general presentational skills, making submissions, and examination and cross examination of witnesses.
The course will be held in the Royal Faculty Hall over successive Monday evenings in Octoberr 2023.
9, 16, 23 and 30 October (5pm-7pm).
The course has already been run a number of times and has been very well received by attendees. In order to ensure the best possible…