Tips for Writing Submissions

This seminar is available for in person or webinar attendance.

In the contemporary legal landscape, written advocacy, with the exception of jury trials, is at least as important as oral advocacy. Gain tips on writing submissions and approaching the task as an exercise in trying to persuade another human being, the judge in your case, to agree with you. This is a valuable opportunity to learn about the effectiveness of commencing submissions with a statement of the main issue, legal reasoning and the use of syllogisms, the usefulness of chronologies, and to hear some practical strategies for settling an initial outline. His Honour will promote a somewhat ruthless approach in eliminating superfluous words or sections, so as to arrive at a finished product that is as succinct as possible.

Level: General