Revise SQE Oral Skills for SQE2: Questions & Answers in Advocacy

by Mark Thomas, Linda Chadderton, James J Ball, Amy Sixsmith (Editor), David Sixsmith (Editor)

Overview

Oral Skills in Advocacy is an SQE2 revision guide for the SQE2 legal skills specification. It demonstrates how you will be assessed at SQE2 in the legal skills of Advocacy. The objective of the SQE2 advocacy assessments is described by the SRA as the ability “to conduct a piece of advocacy before a judge”, and the authors outline the essential advocacy skills in both criminal and civil settings. The book makes clear links to SQE1 Functioning Legal Knowledge to help you understand how the law you learnt in SQE1 can be applied in practice, and there are SQE2-style sample questions to build your confidence in answering assessment questions.

This book incorporates the updates to the SQE Assessment Specification published in April 2023 and which came into force from 1 September 2023. Please note that, unless otherwise expressly stated, the law covered in this book applies in both England and Wales.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781917183116
Publisher:	Revise SQE
Publication date:	11/19/2025
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	180

About the Author

Mark Thomas is a practising barrister in criminal law. He has taught law for several years at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including the Legal Practice Course. He is also the editor of Revise SQE: Ethics and Professional Conduct and of the two Revise SQE FLK 1 and 2 Practice Assessment books, as well as the co-author of Revise SQE Criminal Law and Revise SQE: Criminal Practice. He acts as the MCQ Advisor and Reviewer across the complete Revise SQE series.

Linda Chadderton is a lecturer in law on the undergraduate LL.B. and postgraduate Legal Practice Course at UCLAN, and a solicitor and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. As a practicing solicitor she specialised in defendant litigation. She teaches tort law, litigation, personal injury, clinical negligence and professional skills. Her experience of working in the legal profession for 20 years and subsequently teaching the next generation of legal professionals means she is ideally placed to  understand the issues and application involved in preparing for the SQE. 

James J Ball is a lecturer in law at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University. James teaches across both the undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including Criminal Litigation on the Legal Practice Course (LPC). He has a particular interest in both substantive and procedural criminal law, as well as the law of evidence. He also has considerable expertise in mooting and advocacy skills.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction to Advocacy
Part 2: Advocacy in Civil Practice
Applications for Summary judgment
Applications for Default judgment
Interim applications
Submissions on the Admissibility of Evidence
Applications for Costs
Part 3: Advocacy in Criminal Practice
Contested Bail Hearings
Submissions on Allocation
Submissions on the Admissibility of Evidence
Submissions of No Case to Answer
Basis of Plea
Pleas in Mitigation