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

Questions & Answers in Advocacy is an SQE2 revision guide, helping you to prepare for the SQE2 Advocacy assessment by practising questions in the style of actual SQE2 assessments. It shows how you will be assessed at SQE2, and contains eight questions with answers across civil and criminal settings. Each question is followed by two answers: one likely to satisfy the assessment criteria, and one that does not. You will be able to have a go at answering each question for yourself, and then you'll be able to compare your answer with those provided, using the commentaries to help you improve your performance. 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. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781917183666
Publisher:	Revise SQE
Publication date:	01/01/2026
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.

Dr Amy Sixsmith is an Associate Professor in Law and undergraduate LL.B. programme leader at the University of Sunderland. She has taught on undergraduate and postgraduate law courses for 12 years, and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She was one of the academic leads involved in transforming the University’s LL.B. programme to comply with the specification of the Solicitors Qualifying Examination, and has taught English Legal System to both law and non-law students.  

Dr David Sixsmith is an Assistant Professor at Northumbria University.  He was previously a Senior Lecturer in Law and the programme leader for the Legal Practice Course and postgraduate SQE provision at the University of Sunderland. He is a non-practising solicitor and has previously been a partner at a high street firm. He is heavily involved with developing profession-facing legal education and teaches Dispute Resolution and Wills & Administration of Estates.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Summary judgment
Default judgment
Interim applications
Applications for costs Allocation and bail Admissibility of evidence Submissions of no case to answer Plea in mitigation