Stakeholders harp on oral, written advocacy skills

Legal stakeholders have restated the need for legal practitioners to sharpen their oral and written advocacy skills in the practice of their profession.  This was a joint position taken by many of the stakeholders at the launch of a book, ‘Oral & Written Advocacy: Law & Practice-Traditional & Modern Trends in Advocacy’, co-authored by Chief […]

Legal stakeholders have restated the need for legal practitioners to sharpen their oral and written advocacy skills in the practice of their profession.
 This was a joint position taken by many of the stakeholders at the launch of a book, ‘Oral & Written Advocacy: Law & Practice-Traditional & Modern Trends in Advocacy’, co-authored by Chief Folake Solanke, SAN and Prof. Fabian Ajogwu in Lagos.
The book reviewer, Olasupo Shasore, SAN, who was also a former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State said legal advocacy, either oral or written, was central to having a successful career in the profession, thus the need to be trained in it even while in school.
Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, said the book was a repository of both the old and new trends in legal advocacy.
He said notwithstanding that Solanke belonged to the older generation and Ajogwu to the new, the two authors had touched on the most significant aspect of the law profession: advocacy.
Mrs Solanke said the book emphasised the need for both lawyers and non-lawyers to cultivate the habit of reading.
She the idea of advocacy in law touched on been able to read well so at to be able to write well.