Reminder: Seminar Five in the Bar Association Rhetoric Series
Wed Jul 18 2007Seminar�Five in the Bar Association Rhetoric Series, "Changing Rhetoric of Barristers over the Last Century", will be held on Monday, 23 July 2007.�Seminars start at 5.15pm in the Bar Common Room.
There will�be a discussion with a panel comprising the Hon. Justice Branson, Tom Hughes QC, Tom Bathurst QC, Bret Walker SC and Sharron Norton SC, with Lucy McCallum SC acting as interlocutor.
The members of the panel will be presented with:
- practical rhetorical challenges arising from the presentation and argument of posited legal claims; and
- theoretical rhetorical challenges arising from substantive questions from the convenor and the audience.
The aim of the seminar is to allow leading members of the Bar to demonstrate the unwitting, the witty and the carefully crafted arts of persuasion in both prepared and unprepared contexts.