Prepare
Read the case file and identify your objective.
Advocacy, learnt in practice.
Live practice. Individual feedback. Another attempt.
Explore programmesTraining for
Practice. With purpose.
Four steps, repeated throughout each programme.
TRAINING EXAMPLE01 / 04
The case before you.
Read the file. Identify the issues. Decide what you need the court or panel to do.
YOUR OBJECTIVE
Centre for Legal Advocacy · Prepare. Perform. Refine.Turn the brief into a clear, structured argument.
Read the file. Make the argument.
Use the feedback. Go again.
Perform
Make submissions, question witnesses and answer the panel.
Receive feedback
Understand what worked and what to improve.
Practise again
Apply the feedback in your next attempt.
Find your programme.
Focused preparation for the assessment, hearing or professional task ahead.
QualificationsHigher Rights of Audience Training
Civil courtroom training for solicitors: case analysis, submissions and judicial questions.
- Duration
- 4 proposed sessions
- Delivery
- Online or in person
QualificationsSQE2 Oral Skills Intensive
Four days of live practice, feedback and recorded review.
- Duration
- 4 days · 24 live hours
- Delivery
- In person
Career developmentPupillage Interviews
Practise interview answers, legal analysis and advocacy exercises.
- Duration
- 4 proposed sessions
- Delivery
- Online or in person
Tribunals & hearingsEmployment Tribunal Advocacy Essentials
Three days of preliminary hearings, cross-examination and final submissions.
- Duration
- 3 days · 18 live hours
- Delivery
- In person
Tribunals & hearingsSEND Tribunal Advocacy
Practise EHC plan appeals, evidence, witness questions and remedies.
- Duration
- 4 proposed sessions
- Delivery
- Online or in person
Tribunals & hearingsWelfare Benefits Advocacy
Turn evidence into clear submissions in social security appeals.
- Duration
- 4 proposed sessions
- Delivery
- Online or in person
All programmes & formats
Programmes are in development. Dates and faculty are confirmed before booking.
Every stage.
Every advocate.
Choose a pathway for your assessment, hearing or team.
SQE2 oral skills and higher court advocacy.
Explore this pathwayEmployment, SEND and welfare benefits advocacy.
Explore this pathwayPractise legal analysis, advocacy exercises and interview answers.
Explore this pathwayPrivate programmes and workshops for your organisation.
Explore this pathwayCommission an intensive around your team’s practice.
Explore this pathwayA CLOSER LOOK · SQE2Time to practise.
Time to practise.
Room to improve.
Four in-person days of oral skills training, with live exercises, individual feedback and recorded review.
Explore the SQE2 intensive4In-person training days
24Live training hours
£399Per candidate
A place
to practise.
About the Centre Advocacy develops through preparation, performance and reflection. Our programmes create space to practise the decisions that matter in an assessment, court or tribunal.
From aspiring advocates to professional teams, the principle stays the same: work from a brief, make an argument, receive precise feedback and try again.
OUR FACULTYRelevant practice.
Meet our approach to faculty
Relevant practice.
Precise feedback.
Meet our approach to faculty Relevant practitioners, selected for their teaching and named before booking.
01Relevant practice−
Experience in the relevant court, tribunal or assessment.
02Precise feedback+
Clear feedback on your choices and how to improve them.
03Professional care+
Ethical, accurate and inclusive teaching at your level.
FOR ORGANISATIONSBuilt around
Built around
your work.
Workshops and intensives for firms, unions, advice services and student unions.
Share your brief
Your team, experience, hearings and goals.
Shape the training
Case files and exercises matched to your work.
Agree the details
Confirm faculty, format, group size and fees.
Practise and review
Live exercises, feedback and development priorities.