Advocacy / Lord David Pannick KC, Blackstone Chambers, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords.

Advocacy / Lord David Pannick KC, Blackstone Chambers, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

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Hamlyn lectures.

Lord Pannick celebrates advocacy: that controversial legal issues are decided in court after reasoned argument in which the participants refrain (usually) from shouting, personal insults or threats, and the points on each side of the debate are tested for their relevance, their accuracy, and their strength. The book seeks to identify the central characteristics of good and bad advocacy with the aid of examples from courtrooms in the UK and abroad. Lord Pannick also examines the morality of advocacy - that the advocate sets out views to which he does not necessarily subscribe, on behalf of clients for whom she may feel admiration, indifference, or contempt. Lord Pannick seeks to answer the question he is often asked - more by friends than by judges - 'How can you act for such terrible people?'. Finally, he addresses the future of advocacy, arguing it should and will survive pressures for efficiency and technological developments.

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