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Forensic Advocacy

  • LAWS3366
  • non-standard teaching period (see Timetable)
  • 6 points
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Admission to this unit, taught as a one-week intensive course, is restricted by quota.<br/><br/>This unit is an introduction to the theoretical and practical questions involved in the administration of partisan justice, the theories and techniques employed in the preparation and presentation of cases in court and the skills required in advocacy in a court or tribunal. Each step of the trial process is studied—the preparation of the trial (as distinct from procedural steps), the opening address, examination, cross-examination and re-examination of witnesses, the tendering of documentary evidence, taking objections, closing address, and submissions on law. The unit is skills-based and is... -- Course Website

Instructor: Richard Hooker

Prerequisites: LAWS3310 Evidence



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