The Criminal Advocate. An Analysis of their Qualities and their Situation in the Criminal Justice System

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Document from the year 2012 in the subject Law - Criminal process, Criminology, Law Enforcement, grade: 2.1, City University London, course: LLM Criminal Litigation, language: English, abstract: There is a growing concern about the quality of criminal advocates in England and Wales. This paper tries to analyse the topic of criminal advocates by trying to give answers to three questions. These questions refer to the qualities that a criminal advocate should have, how the author would advise trial judges to evaluate these qualities in the advocates who appear before them and how non-legal professions could contribute to improving the quality of advocacy for the stakeholders in the Criminal Justice System.The qualities of a trial advocate are important because these are one of the main essentials practitioners need to have if they are going to succeed in judicial process. This is an important factor to highlight at the outset, as one needs to have a firm understanding of the main basic qualities needed. Professor J.W. Montgomery refers to John .H Munkman's written literature where he lists the six qualities required of an advocate, those being a person with good speaking voice, who is in command of his words, confidence, persistence, practical judgment and experience of handling cases. This is a correct statement because one would hope that these qualities would lead to the better advocate in practice.