Publisher's Synopsis
This is the second edition of this title written for solicitors, barristers and students in which Michael Hyam shows that advocacy skills can be learnt by careful study and application.;He attempts in this book to show by analysis, example and precept the direction in which the practicising advocate should go in order to become effective and assured. His aim has been to stimulate thought about advocacy and to show that many of its daunting difficulties may be resolved by good preparation, which includes careful thinking out what the case requires. The purpose of providing numerous examples is to enable the reader to use them as models which can be applied in a multitude of circumstances. He also tried to show how the advocate can approach any problem by formulating an hypothesis which accounts for all the facts in the case.;Judge Michael Hyam has been a circuit judge since 1984 and before that practised as a barrister on the South Eastern Circuit for 22 years.
