Subjects:

Advocacy

Contents:

The Question of Niceness

Who Gets called What: the formal and Informal Ways of Addressing the Judiciary

Why Formality, Anyway?

Dealing with the Multiple-person Courts

The Use of the Word 'Learned'

Putting Your Case

Objections

What Do We Really Mean by the 'Language of Advocacy'?

Interchanges with the Bench

Dealing with Witnesses

Arguing Your Case to the Jury.

This work explains the language used by the most successful advocates throughout the English-speaking world, and contributors include distinguished lawyers within these jurisdictions, from the Far-East to the USA. As well as dealing with the words and phrases of advocacy, the book covers other aspects of the technique of communication.