Advocacy in children and domestic abuse injunction cases – practical tips and guidance

With increasing pressure on family lawyers to undertake their own advocacy, developing the skills and confidence to represent clients effectively in court is becoming increasingly important.

This practical webinar will explore advocacy in children proceedings and domestic abuse injunction cases, covering a range of hearings, from emergency applications and interim hearings to case management hearings and contested hearings involving live evidence.

It will address the common anxieties practitioners face when conducting their own advocacy, offering practical tips, procedural guidance and examples to help them approach hearings with greater confidence.

The webinar will be divided into two parts. The first will focus on practical advocacy techniques and the procedures involved in conducting hearings. The second will explore how live evidence can be handled in practice, with examples demonstrating how different situations can be approached.

Topics covered include:

• Preparing for advocacy
• Using the law in family advocacy
• Boosting your confidence
• Without – notice applications
• Making submissions
• Structure and analysing of the case
• Skeleton arguments
• Submissions
• Opening / closing speeches

This webinar will involve seeing and hearing some ‘role play’ in so far as the essential of calling live evidence based on a factual scenario:

• Live hearings and calling evidence
• Examination-in-chief
• Cross eaxamination – key tips
• Re-examination
• Contested interim care hearings – do I really need to contest?
• Case management hearings and injunction proceedings