Appellate Advocacy

• Author: Stephen Grant
• Pages: 221-221

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APPELLATE ADVOCACY

My late partner and the former Attorney General Ian Scott

hated trials. They were unpredictable. A witness might well say

anything despite exhaustive preparation. Ian preferred judicial

reviews and appeals, where the record is available and the evidence

is immutable. Meanwhile, I keep seeking an answer to the question,

“What persuades?” To answer the question, we have reections by two

esteemed jurists and two formidable advocates. To get there, as Justice

Coulter Osborne famously put it, you must show that your client occupies

the “moral high ground.”