Advocacy Hearing

Day 4 of the midsite professional program: Advocacy Hearing.

Our exercise was to conduct an Examiniation-In-Chief (EIC) and Cross-Examination of witnesses in a mock criminal trial. It was basically like going to court.

I was pretty apprehensive about doing it initially, much like anything I do! I was paired up with someone who I couldn't get along with. I cut short my one hour lunch break to come back to the room and start work on the hearing.

Before long time was up and we had to go to the court rooms. Scared, anxious, nervous but not as much as when I was doing the "mention" on Tuesday.

It went well! It was quite fun actually! I made heaps of errors due my lack of complete knowledge of the facts. But my opponents and the acting magistrate and everyone in the class starting laughing at stuff which caused me to be less conscious. I wasn't as afraid to get up on the bar table and talk publicly as if putting forward arguments in court.

Anyway next week is going to be a killer, the work load and schedule of college is worse than uni. Pray that I get through next week alright =)