The Technique of Advocacy / by John H. Munkman.

Reprint. Originally published: London : Stevens, 1951.

CONTENTS;
Preface;
1 ADVOCACY: ITS NATURE, AIMS AND BACKGROUND;
1. Meaning and foundations
2 The limits of advocacy
3 The branches of advocacy
2 THE GENERAL TECHNIQUE OF INTERROGATION AND THE FALLACIES OF TESTIMONY;
1 Methods of interrogation
2 Mistakes made by a truthful witness: the fallacies of testimony
3 Witnesses who do not wish to tell the truth
3 EXAMINATION-IN-CHIEF;
1 The general background
2 The technique
4 CROSS-EXAMINATION: ITs AIMS AND LIMITATIONS;
I The aims of cross-examination
2 The limits of cross-examination
5 CROSS-EXAMINATION: ITs TECHNIQUE
1 Preliminary
2 The main techniques
3 The technique of confrontation
4 The technique of probing
5 The technique of insinuation
6 The technique of undermining
7 Subsidiary techniques
6 CROSS-EXAMINATION: PREPARATION & PLANNING;
1 Preparation
2 Choice of technique
3 Minor witnesses
4 Major witnesses
5 Types of witnesses
7 RE-EXAMINATION;
8 LEGAL PROOF AND THE FORMULATION OF;
ARGUMENTS
I Legal proof of facts
2' Arguments on the facts
3 Arguments on the law
9 THE SPEECHES
I The construction and arrangement of a speech
2 Other elements in a good speech
3 The order of the speeches
4 The opening
5 The speech in defence
6 The reply
7 ,Submission of no case to answer
8 Speech in mitigation
10 GENERAL STRATEGY AND TACTICS
1 The foundation : knowledge of the case
2 Position and atmosphere
3 Striking power
4 Staying power and resolution
Appendix