The Fundamentals of District Court Civil Procedure, Drafting & Advocacy Skills
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Module 2: Preparing for trial and court room advocacy Building on Module 1 with lectures and small group Modules on District Court practice & procedure; case analysis and the application of the rules of evidence in preparing for trial. Small group training in advocacy techniques including how to conduct both a direct and a cross-examination of witnesses. The Module will culminate in simulated trials conducted by the course participants as the advocates and actors playing the parties and witnesses. The aim is to encourage and enhance each participant’s trial skills. The trials will be followed by a feedback and learning Module with the ‘judge’
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Speaker/s
Speakers include
Colette Reid, Solicitor, Law Society of Ireland. Colette is a solicitor with ten years’ experience in practice and is the Skills Leader and a Course Manager on the Law Society’s Professional Practice Courses. Colette’s areas of expertise include Civil Litigation, Civil Advocacy and Medical Law. She also heads the development and co-ordination of skills training and policy development on the Professional Practice Course. Colette holds an MSc in Healthcare Law & Ethics from the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland and diplomas in Arbitration (UCD) and EU Law (LSI). She edited and co-authored the Law Society’s Civil Litigation book (Oxford University Press). In addition to her Professional Practice Course role with trainee solicitors, Colette designs, writes and delivers legal professional training courses including courses for the Skillnet Jobseekers Support Programme and lectures in Civil Litigation, Medical Law, Applied Land Law and Skills. Colette is the secretary to the Litigation Committee.
Cathal Quinn. Cathal is a voice and speech teacher at The Lir, Trinity College. He also provides presentation skills training for lecturers and senior staff members at Trinity College. Cathal has a Masters in Voice Studies from Central School of Speech and Drama having previously trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy in Glasgow. He taught at Oxford School of Drama and was the Head of Voice at the Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin, 1998-2012, until he took up his current position at The Lir. Cathal is also a busy voiceover artist with many corporate clients. Cathal’s film credits include Albert Nobbs, Parked, Eden and The Escapist and his TV work includes Love/Hate, Kitchen and Omagh. He is also the Artistic Director of Mouth on Fire Theatre Company and Guthanna Binne Síoraí.
Judge John O’Donnell
Suzanne Mullally BL. Suzanne is a practising barrister and co-author of the recently published "Civil Procedure in the District Court” (2nd ed.), Karl Dowling and Suzanne Mullally, Roundhall, 2014. Suzanne’s areas of expertise include personal injury litigation, more particularly public liability claims, motor insurance claims, and employer's liability claims, together with conveyancing and family law. Other publications include Trial by ambush no more – The District Court (Civil Procedure) Rules 2014; Bar Review, Vol 20, Issue 2 (April 2015); and “The Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009: Implications for Family Lawyers”, Irish Journal of Family Law (2010) FLJ 3.
Professor Shane Kilcommins. Shane is the Head of the School of Law, University of Limerick. He is a graduate of UL (BA in Law and European Studies, 1994) the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (Ph.D 1999), and UCC (MA in Teaching and Learning, 2007). He joined the Law Faculty, UCC in 2001, was made a senior lecturer in 2006, and a professor in 2012. Shane lectures in evidence law, jurisprudence, penology and employment. He was a Visiting Scholar at Temple Law School in 2008/2009. He has co-authored various funded research reports on discrimination, victims of crime and integrative learning. He is an examiner for the Law Society of Ireland and acts as an extern examiner for Trinity College, UCD, DCU, DIT and AIT. He was appointed to the Office of the Inspector of Prisons in May 2013.