Advocacy provides an excellent, highly practical, introduction to the skills and techniques required to deliver submissions and applications in the courts with confidence. It covers the full range of court room transactions from opening and closing cases, to conducting examination-in-chief and cross-examination, and questioning witnesses.

Advocacy is essential reading for all trainee barristers, and is also a useful source of reference for junior practitioners wishing to refine their advocacy skills.

PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction
2. The qualities of the advocate
3. Ethics, etiquette and cross-cultural communication in the courtroom
PART II : THE BASIC COMPONENTS FOR APPLICATIONS AND SUBMISSIONS
4. Recognising competence - advocacy skills criteria
5. Preparing for court
6. The content of your application
7. Structuring your application
8. Delivering your application
9. Persuasion
PART III: PREPARING FOR ADVOCACY
10. You and your voice
11. Memory and recall
12. Note-taking
13. Modes of address
14. The advocate as a storyteller
15. The course of a trial
PART IV: OPENING AND CLOSING A CASE
16. Opening speeches
17. Closing speeches
PART V: WITNESSES
18. The task ahead
19. Basic components for witness handling
20. Basic questioning skills
21. Examination-in-chief
22. Cross-examination
23. Re-examination
PART VI: HOW-TO-DO-IT GUIDES
24. Using this Part of the manual
25. Skeleton arguments
26. Default judgments
27. Summary judgments
28. Interim payments
29. Applying for an injunction
30. Applications to strike out for want of prosecution
31. Applications in the Chancery Division
32. The companies court
33. Possession cases
34. Application for a preliminary reference to the European Court of Justice
35. Applying for costs in a civil case
36. Employment tribunals
37. Remands/adjournments
38. Bail application
39. Conducting a 'trial within a trial'
40. Making a submission of no case to answer
41. Prosecuting a plea of guilty in the Crown Court
42. The plea in mitigation
Appendix: A criminal case: R v Heath