Just back from the Australian Bar Association’s Advanced Trial Advocacy Course, a week-long residential retreat in Brisbane.
It is a remarkable thing that a group of participants with some hundreds of years of advocacy experience should undertake this sort of training. It is an extraordinarily intense way to spend a week. Apart from all the lectures and demonstrations, we were required repeatedly to perform in front of a faculty of coaches consisting not only lawyers (Supreme Court Judges and other judges and senior practitioners from a number of jurisdictions) but also performance coaches. After each performance, we were immediately analysed by at least two coaches on the spot, and then sent into another room to watch our performances on video, and have that analysed by a third coach. And so, Continue reading
