“To be a good advocate, you must be a good actor”

We have put this course together on the basis of this premise. The key skills we will teach the students to use are listed below and our bid explains exactly how we will teach these skills.

Key Skills

1.      Taking the space – authority and confidence.

2.      Releasing Tension – vocal clarity and a free voice.

3.      Vocal Production – articulation & clarity for understanding.

4.      Learning a script – delivery of text.

5.      Story Telling. 

-         Bail applications

-         3 things at a time…

§         Delivery of the facts to the magistrate, (rule of thumb, mind mapping, keywords etc. Vocal Production)

§         Engagement with the magistrate, (Eye-contact & Vocal Production)

Listening and responding to the other solicitor. (‘Sword fighting’/ Duelling vocally, but bringing that into the physical.)

The course can be tailored to the individual requirement of the Advocacy Teaching within each institution.

Your students (once qualified) will need to hold the attention of a whole courtroom and deliver facts convincingly about cases that have huge consequences in someone’s life. A strong, stable, durable voice is something that we feel is absolutely essential in these situations. This course will give students the physical experiences to achieve endurance, stability and strength of voice so that they can successfully prosecute or defend in a court of law.

“To be a good advocate, you must be a good actor”

The use of the voice is especially important for the situations that the students will find themselves in during their professional lives. A courtroom is not just a game; it can have monumental consequences for those involved. We feel passionately that every advocate is armed with the relevant skills they need to represent somebody to the best of their ability. An advocate can have all the legal terminology and understanding in the world but without the knowledge of how to convey these relevant facts all this is lost. Your students (once qualified) will need to hold the attention of a whole courtroom and deliver facts convincingly about cases that have huge consequences in someone’s life. A strong, stable, durable voice is something that we feel is absolutely essential in these situations. This course will give students the physical experiences to achieve endurance, stability and strength of voice so that they can successfully prosecute or defend in a court of law.