Beyond the Ten Commandments - Advanced Cross Examination

Introduction

Many of you will have experienced Professor Alastair Hodge’s take on Irving Younger’s ‘Ten Commandments of Cross Examination’ - whether on the Advocacy component of the Professional Skills Course or via his ‘Art of Civil Advocacy’ session.

Now, Alastair returns to take the Ten Commandments to a new level.

In this virtual classroom seminar, Alastair will revisit all the Commandments and examine each one in a way geared towards the more advanced advocatee working in English civil courts..

As ever, many anecdotes and stories will be told!

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive course will cover the following:

• Honing the preparation of a cross examination
• Goal orientated questioning sequences
• Dealing with the ‘runaway’ witness
• Examining the potential power of the non-leading question in cross examination
• How best to make use of previous inconsistent statements

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.