Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. The Best of the Advocates' Society Journal 1982–2004
- Publisher:
- Irwin Law Inc.
- Publication date:
- 2005-08-27
- Authors:
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David Stockwood
David E. Spiro - ISBN:
- 9781459313590
Description:
For the past twenty-two years, the Advocates’ Society Journal has played a unique role in legal education in Canada. As a publication dedicated to informing advocates, it has brought together the ideas of leading legal minds to provide experienced and insightful views on both advocacy and advocates. Indeed, the Journal has provided a veritable “how to” for the practice of advocacy before courts and tribunals. The twenty-four articles in this volume provide a sampling of the wisdom, the insights, the experience, and the humour that readers have come to expect from the pages of the Journal. The collection includes pieces by past and present justices of the Supreme Court of Canada and the Ontario Court of Appeal as well as several eminent trial lawyers. It covers all aspects of the art of written and oral advocacy in both criminal and civil trials. The book is dedicated to the late David Sgayias Q.C., former Chief General Counsel of the Federal Department of Justice, and an outstanding counsel, author, and legal scholar.
Index
- Preliminary Sections
- Preface
- Acknowledgment
- David Sgayias, Q.C. - An Appreciation
- The Importance of Advocacy
- The Many Faces of Advocacy
- In Praise of Oral Advocacy
- The Argument of a Case at Trial
- The Conduct of a Non-jury Civil Trial
- Oral Advocacy in Matters Argued before Superior Court Judges
- Advocacy injury Trials
- Stranger in a Strange Land: Advocacy Before Administrative Tribunals
- Winning Strategies in the Civil Jury Process
- Appellate Advocacy
- Appellate Advocacy
- Forget the Windup and Make the Pitch: Some Suggestions for Writing More Persuasive Factums
- What Persuades (or What's Going On inside the Judge's Mind)
- A Survivor's Guide to Advocacy in the Supreme Court of Canada
- Appellate Advocacy in an Abbreviated Setting
- Advocacy in jurisprudential Appeals
- The Wrong Stuff: How to Lose Appeals in the Court of Appeal
- The Wrong Stuff: Tip #8
- Losing Tip #9: Make Your Factum Read Like War and Peace
- Losing Tip #10: When the Law is Dead Against You
- Losing Tip #11: Distinguishing the Indistinguishable (and a Note on Alphabet Soup)
- Losing Tip #13: Never Discard a Hopeless Argument
- Losing Tip #14: Openers and Closers