Mock Trial: Not Just for Future Lawyers
The phrase “Mock Trial” often evokes images of barristers’ robes, judges’ wigs, and law textbooks. Often, students envisage the activity...
The Little Things: 5 Easy Changes You Can Make to Improve Trial Performance
There is nothing in mock trial more frustrating than a one point loss. It can be absolutely shattering to put in months of work and come...
The Hearsay Rule
If you’ve been in any trial, chances are you’ve heard “Objection, hearsay!” with a frequency that rivals the use of bad catchphrases in...
The Direct Approach—How lawyers can earn a ten on direct examinations.
Next time you are talking with a mocker, ask them what they remember most about a given trial. Chances are, you will hear about some...
5 Tips for Acing Cross Examination
You calmly stroll up to the front of the courtroom and glance at the witness squirming on the stand. He doesn’t know what he’s in...
Why wait? Three things you can do right now to prepare for the 2016 HKISMTC
After four exhilarating—and exhausting—rounds of competition on April 18-19, we have our results. The ballots have been counted and the...
