Currently trying to cram one weeks worth of reading into one night and I'm rather tired. Luckily this topic is on 'Legal Writing' and given I've completed a degree I have prior experience in writing essays and referencing so I'm skimming parts

Today was great. We did a mock trial. I was on the defence team and we split into groups to each discuss specific aspects of the case. My group had the issue of assault to deal with. It was a good process and interesting to see what other members had to say even if alot of the time it was not of relevance or more relevant to an issue an other group was discussing. The issue of assault became interrelated to other aspects of yhe case but we were only concerned with assault. We designated one person to speak on our defence of assault and then were told we had to have two people. Another woman suggested I should speak also because I came up with a defence to the assault charge specifically relating to spitting. Our other speaker Adam came up with a defence of our client's liberty being infringed upon. What was really uplifting was that in the judges decision both of these aspects were upheld as part of a decision to find our client guilty of assault but by reason of self defence for both arguments made by Adam and myself and no offence recorded against our client.

I thought our group as a whole did exceptionally well in covering all aspects of the case and the mitigating factors. Every group performed really well in their understanding of the issues and in the research undertaken on the day.






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