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PSC Core Module: Advocacy & Communication Skills
18 hours ILT
What you are going to learn
About this course:
Objective:
Trainees should be able to:
Intended audience:
PSC Trainees
Duration:
18 hours
Trainees should be able to:
- Exercise the rights of audience available on admission in the civil and criminal courts
- Advise a client on the appropriate pre-trial procedures and proceedings, understand the crucial importance of preparation; the best way to undertake it and assist in the preparation and conduct of pre-trial procedures and proceedings
- Trainees should be able to make an interlocutory application before a District Judge.
Intended audience:
PSC Trainees
Duration:
18 hours
Topics:
Element 1 Trainees should be able, in the context of a civil and a criminal case, to:
Element 1 Trainees should be able, in the context of a civil and a criminal case, to:
- Use language appropriate to the client, witness(es) and triers of fact and law
- Listen, observe and interpret the behaviour of triers of fact and law, clients, witness(es) and other advocates and be able to respond to this behaviour as appropriate
- Speak and question effectively and thereby competently use appropriate presentation skills to open and close a case
- Use a variety of questioning skills to conduct examination in chief, cross examination, and re-examination
- Prepare and present a coherent submission based upon facts, general principles and legal authority in a structured, concise and persuasive manner
- Present a submission as a series of propositions based on the evidence
- Organise and present evidence in a coherent and organised form
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