Practical Advocacy in the Crown Court

Mary Cowe (Guildhall Chambers, UK), Susan Cavender

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English

Bloomsbury Professional
30 September 2020

Advocacy; Criminal law & procedure

Practical Advocacy in the Crown Court follows the life of a case in the Crown Court chronologically, providing guidance and insights at each step. It guides the reader from first conference through legal arguments and witness handling to sentencing hearings, with references to procedure, codes of conduct, and key cases. With an emphasis on practical advice, each chapter follows a similar format incorporating dos and don’ts, mock situations, and sections on good practice.

Key topics covered include: -Making and opposing bail applications -Effective communication with lay clients -Appeals against conviction and sentence in the Crown Court -Evidential submissions

-Witness handling of complainants, vulnerable witnesses, police officers and experts -Making effective jury speeches -Sentencing, mitigation and advocacy in cases involving the Mental Health Act

This is the only specialist guide written for Crown Court advocates, by Crown Court advocates. It provides learned advice on common situations such as hearsay applications, hostile witnesses, making speeches or mitigating in cases where it may feel like there is little to say. It also provides insight on good communication with clients as well as court room advocacy, and dealing with lay clients, solicitors and police officers in conference. In addition, it covers written advocacy in detail, including persuasive skeleton arguments and using jury bundles effectively.

Depending on the experience of the reader, this book helps the:

-new advocate by giving them insight into situations that arise frequently, with a proper understanding of their role, as well as advice on how to adapt their style to the witness or the Judge

-progressing advocate to develop skills with advice garnered from counsel of many years’ experience, such as sections dealing with witness handling and evidential submissions in more complex cases, including rape and serious sexual offences work, proceeds of crime applications, case conferences with the CPS and presenting documents to juries in larger cases

-experienced and busy advocate by looking at situations of greater complexity, such as the purpose of jury advocacy, and it will also act as a refresher for the more established advocate with writer's block in a tricky case

By: Mary Cowe (Guildhall Chambers UK), Susan Cavender
Imprint: Bloomsbury Professional
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 392g
ISBN: 9781526516329
ISBN 10: 1526516322
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 30 September 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part I Starting out Chapter 1 Survival guide Chapter 2 What is advocacy ? Part II Bail Chapter 3 Bail hearings Chapter 4 Bench warrants and custody time limit applications Part III Clients Chapter 5 Talking to clients Chapter 6 The adversarial system Part IV Evidential submissions Chapter 7 Judicial advocacy v jury advocacy Chapter 8 Bad character Chapter 9 Hearsay Chapter 10 Excluding evidence Chapter 11 Insufficiency of evidence Chapter 12 The Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999, ss 41–43 Part V The Trial: Witnesses Chapter 13 Witnesses Chapter 14 Complainants Chapter 15 Child and vulnerable witnesses Chapter 16 Dealing with police witnesses Chapter 17 Expert witnesses Chapter 18 Defendants and defence witnesses Part VI The Trial: Written advocacy Chapter 19 Jury bundles as a way to persuade Chapter 20 The successful skeleton argument Part VII The Trial: Speeches Chapter 21 Speeches Chapter 22 Hard things to say Part VIII Sentencing Chapter 23 Opening for sentence Chapter 24 Effective mitigation Chapter 25 Hospital orders Chapter 26 Ancillary orders Chapter 27 Confiscation under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 Part IX Appeals Chapter 28 Appeal against conviction and sentence Part X Final word Chapter 29 The Good Advocate

Mary Cowe Mary is a criminal barrister who appears in serious and complex cases. She does a mix of prosecution and defence work, exercising her forensic abilities and her advocacy skills in a variety of different types of case, including complex fraud matters and multi-handed drug conspiracies, as well as prosecuting and defending sexual offences. Her approach to any case is rooted in systematic and detailed preparation. Susan Cavender Susan specialises in a variety of areas of law that includes criminal, licensing, driving defence cases, regulatory/disciplinary and inquest hearings. She works primarily in crime covering a wide range of cases for both prosecution and defence. Noted for her clarity and good communications skills, Susan has writing experience having contributed to a Jordans text on Licensing.

Reviews for Practical Advocacy in the Crown Court

...cover[s] nearly every conceivable topic that might confront a new practitioner and it combines guidance on advocacy and ethics with information on practice and procedure, and a good dose of sound common sense and experience. * Archbold Review, March 2021 *