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On Trial - Advocacy Skills Law and Practice (Second Edition)


This practical guide helps you develop winning courtroom techniques and strategies. From the opening address to the final argument, it provides:rnauthoritative solutions to potential legal and practical problems that may arise during trialrnuseful examples of how to elicit evidence and damage witness credibilityrndetailed instruction on how to conduct examinations-in-chief, cross-examinations and argumentsrnmethods of successfully preparing witnesses for trial.rnrnThis new edition features a number of new and reorganized chapters including new material on:rnThe selection and presentation of a credible - and winning - theory of a casernThe selection, organization and use of documents at trialrnDemonstrative evidence - admissibility, laying the proper foundation, distinguishing between demonstrative evidence and demonstrative aids and the admissibility of videotapes, computer reconstruction and modelsrnObjections - when to object and when not to, timing and forms of objectionsrnPlus a major new section specifically devoted to expert witnesses - including who qualifies and the trial court's gatekeeper" function the subject matter of expert testimony retaining and preparing expert witnesses and direct and cross-examination of experts"
Geoffrey D.E. Adair - Personal Name
Second Edition
11 ONT geo
9780433460343
11 ONT geo
Book
English
Lexis nexis
2004
Canada
xxxix, 530p; 23.5cm
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