Michelmas Skills Day AFTERNOON Session - QS

*Also Advanced Preparation and Interactive*

Students may book either a MORNING or AFTERNOON advocacy session.

Morning students will arrive and be divided into small groups to go through 2.5 hours of practical workshop training in advocacy performance skills, with a focus on how to connect with an audience and use vocal skills and body language to communicate clearly and confidently. Students will be encouraged to use skills typically employed by actors to improve their oral advocacy, with effective use of breath, posture and vocal resonance. They will also examine strategies for overcoming nerves and delivering speeches and submissions with confidence.

After this session, there will be a short coffee break, and then morning students AND afternoon students will attend an introductory lecture to legal research delivered by Inner Temple Librarians. The lecture will include information on how to research UK cases and legislation, decipher legal abbreviations, understand the need to use commentary sources and keep up to date with developments in the legal world.

After the lecture, afternoon students will be divided into small groups to go through the practical advocacy performance workshop.

Timings:

MORNING Students

8.30am – Arrival

9am – Performance Skills Workshop

11.30am – Coffee Break

12pm – Legal Research Lecture

1.30pm – Lunch

2.30pm - End

AFTERNOON Students

11.30am – Arrival

12pm – Legal Research Lecture