This podcast series aims to help you as an advocate in courts or tribunals. It is about approaches, guidelines, suggestions. It is not about rules. The content will be helpful because thinking about the issues, how they can be approached, how to ask questions and make submissions, and how to deal with the stress that you, and your witnesses will experience, do not know boundaries of legal system, language, or background.

The topics discussed in the series are listed. The structure of the podcasts is laid out, including the background story of 'Jack and Jill that is used to illustrate the techniques, tips and explanations. The framework within which all court room advocacy - both for preparation and performance - must take place is discussed.

Each episode is about 15 minutes or less.

Depending on your experience and immediate needs you can listen to episodes in any order.

Hopefully what you learn from these episodes will allow you to develop a winning personal style of advocacy .

An easy to read and use, affordable, companion book with the same title Advocacy in Court: preparation and performance, by Hugh Selby, is available on Amazon Kindle.

And for witnesses and their lawyers who are looking for all that witnesses need to know to prepare and be a witness, see the podcast series ' Witness Essentials'.

Also available on Kindle by Hugh Selby, with examples of Chief/Direct and Cross in fictional settings: Liar Games; and, The Bone Cancer.

Another podcast series, just 7 short episodes, appealing to anyone with an interest in failings in our justice system is ' The Man who wasn't There'.

Finally, if you like what you hear then tell other people and review these podcasts so that others benefit. Cheers, hughmselby@gmail.com

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