NCSC International - Trinidad and Tobago: Promoting Trial Advocacy Skills

"In May 2017, NCSC and pro bono partner DLA Piper hosted a three-day basic trial advocacy workshop for police prosecutors at the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service Academy in Port of Spain, Trinidad. The program focused on improving the participants' direct examination, cross examination, opening statement and closing argument techniques. Skills development training included strategic tools for persuasion, physical presentation, controlling difficult witnesses, introducing forensic evidence, and rhetorical devices. The workshop employed a "learning by doing" approach, involving teaching through joint plenary sessions alternating with hands-on workshops in a simulated courtroom."

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