How Does the ATC Support Advocacy Training at the BVC Stage?The ATC provides advice, support and encouragement to trainers who teach advocacy skills as part of the Bar Vocational Course. This role includes holding biannual assessment events for the formal accreditation of BVC tutors.
At these assessment events tutors demonstrate their advocacy training skills during sessions designed to reproduce as accurately as possible an advocacy training lesson. They are observed by senior advocacy trainers and members of the ATC, who assess their suitability to be formally accredited as advocacy trainers of BVC students.
The ATC’s recommendation is then passed to the Bar Standards Board, which makes the final decision on the formal accreditation of advocacy teachers at the BVC stage. All BVC advocacy trainers must be accredited within six months of having first started to teach advocacy.
Documents Relating to the BSB/ATC Accreditation of BVC Tutors:
Revised Assessment & Accreditation Procedures
Amendment to BVC Course Specifications
Supplementary Assessment Questions How Does the ATC Encourage and Support the Inns and Circuits?The ATC visits advocacy training courses provided by the Inns and Circuits throughout the academic year. The purpose of these visits is both to encourage and enhance the level of advocacy training on offer and to gather and disseminate particular examples of best practice.
ATC visitors produce detailed written reports shared with the Council and with the training provider. These reports are the vehicle for shared best practice and enable the Inns and Circuits to develop and enhance their training provision in line with the Council’s recommendations. Click here for visitor report templates.
How Does the ATC Support Advocacy Training Overseas?The ATC, as required by its constitution, is committed to assisting overseas Bars - particularly in the developing world – with improving standards of advocacy training to help maintain the rule of law.
The Council has so far conducted and participated in advocacy training projects in nineteen different jurisdictions, including India, South Africa, Ghana, Bermuda and Hong Kong, where the ATC helped to establishment of a proper teaching faculty involving judges from a number of jurisdictions.
To ensure these projects are of solid and lasting benefit to the overseas Bar, the ATC takes a ‘seed corn’ approach, ensuring they work alongside local members of the legal profession to develop and implement their own advocacy training provision and methods. Click here for International Faculty.
How Can I Get Involved?If you are interested in supporting advocacy training in your Inn or Circuit by qualifying as an advocacy trainer, the ATC Secretariat can advise you on whom to contact. Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information.
If you are already an Inn/Circuit advocacy trainer, you can also secure access to the members’ section by applying here. This will enable you to take part in discussions on advocacy training materials and methods, and view a library of core training papers.
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