Advocacy

Learn how to present a legal argument

At the University of Hertfordshire we value the importance of students learning, and regularly practicing, the full range of advocacy skills which will be required for your future career in the legal profession. 

Unlike most other law schools, we offer extensive opportunities to not only participate in mooting, but also mock trial advocacy activities.  As such we run an extra-curricular advocacy programme during which we teach you in a supervised forum to develop important skills such as how to conduct an examination-in-chief and cross-examination of witnesses, and all other aspects of trial advocacy.

These activities take place in our new state-of-the-art replica Crown Court room which is one of the only ones of its kind in the country; all of which cements our place at the forefront of law schools for providing such valuable skills development. 

We regularly invite a range of guest speakers from the legal profession to come and give talks to students on how to conduct these activities, as well as how to go about pursuing a career in the law. 

Additionally, we are also the founders, organisers, and hosts of the UH/Blackstone’s National Criminal Advocacy Competition in association with 4 Breams Buildings. This is the first, and only, national mock trial competition for undergraduates and GDL students. The competition is also sponsored by Oxford University Press, through their Blackstone's Criminal Practice title.