This SQE2 revision guide covers the requirements of the SRA SQE2 assessment specification for oral skills in advocacy, which is examined four times a year in January, April, July and October. Designed specifically to help you prepare for the SQE2 assessment, it provides a clear, concise and highly focused overview of the subject, and outlines the essential advocacy skills in both criminal and civil settings.

The book is clearly structured around the SRA specification and focuses only on the skills you need to revise for the SQE2 assessment. Each chapter examines the SQE2 assessment criteria and outlines the essentials of each skill, as well as making clear links to SQE1 functioning legal knowledge to help you understand how the law you learnt in SQE1 can be applied in practice. It demonstrates how you will be assessed at SQE2 and identifies the techniques required in the SQE2 assessment, in addition to highlighting pervasive issues of ethics and professional conduct.

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SQE Oral Skills for SQE2 Advocacy is available as a print book and ebook, and is suitable whether you are following an SQE preparation course, a self-study route or preparing to retake the SQE2 assessment.

"Revise SQE Oral Skills for SQE2: Advocacy" was written by Mark Thomas, James J Ball and Linda Chadderton.

James J Ball is a lecturer in law at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University. James teaches across both the undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including Criminal Litigation on the Legal Practice Course (LPC). He has a particular interest in both substantive and procedural criminal law, as well as the law of evidence. He also has considerable expertise in mooting and advocacy skills.

Linda Chadderton is a lecturer in law on the undergraduate LL.B. and postgraduate Legal Practice Course at UCLAN, and a solicitor and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. As a practicing solicitor she specialised in defendant litigation. She teaches tort law, litigation, personal injury, clinical negligence and professional skills. Her experience of working in the legal profession for 20 years and subsequently teaching the next generation of legal professionals means she is ideally placed to  understand the issues and application involved in preparing for the SQE.