Speaking in Court

Andrew Watson is Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Before then he practiced as a solicitor and as a barrister during which time he acted as an advocate and appeared at all levels of courts. He was also a visiting lecturer on Advocacy Training Workshops at Harvard Law School from 1998-2003 and was an Assistant Professor at Niigata University in Japan from 1993-1995.

“Speaking in Court is both delightful and informative. The premise is simple. … There is something here for every advocate and it should be on every advocate’s shelf.” (Tony Shaw, The Law Society Gazette, lawgazette.co.uk, October 14, 2019)

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Distinguished Advocates, Judges, Classical Learning and Other Influences On Advocacy in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries.- 3. Prohibition Against Counsel in Felony Trials and the Consequences of its erosion.- 4. Victorian Advocacy: Emotion, Melodrama, Floridity and Juries.- 5. Signs of Change in Styles Before Juries.- 6. Decline of Jury Trials in the Civil and Criminal Courts and Other Key Developments.- 7. The Late Nineteenth Century and the Beginning of the Twentieth Century.- 8. A Spectacular Quartet of Leading Barristers.- 9. The Silent Revolution in Methods of Advocacy.- 10. Changes and Influences on Jury advocacy in England and Wales During the Second Half of the Twentieth Century.- 11. Developments in the Second Half of the 20th Century Influencing Advocacy in the Civil Courts.- 12. Some Conclusions.