{"id":8784,"date":"2022-04-20T00:35:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T16:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cmel.hku.hk\/events\/the-art-of-advocacy\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T17:12:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T09:12:27","slug":"the-art-of-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/cmel.hku.hk\/zh\/events\/the-art-of-advocacy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.14.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; collapsed=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.14.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.14.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.14.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sidecontent_detail\">\n<div class=\"desc2\">\n<div class=\"desc\">\n<div class=\"event-details\">\n<div class=\"desc\">\n<div class=\"desc\">\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><br \/>Plato said a lawyer is trained \u201cto make the worse argument seem the better\u201d. Advocacy is certainly the skill of persuasion, but was Plato right? Advocacy is not the sole province of lawyers, and is important in all walks of life. James Badenoch Q.C., a highly experienced advocate in the courts of the UK and Hong Kong, will address the point and purpose of advocacy in the modern world, and will share his long experience of using it in many forums, high and low, to show how advocacy is best deployed in the law and outside it to advance the cause presented.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"desc2\">\n<p><strong>Speaker:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3088 alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cmel.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/JBPhoto1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"299\" \/><br \/><\/strong><br \/><b>James Badenoch, QC (MA Oxford)\u00a0<\/b>took silk in 1989, and was lead Counsel for the successful plaintiff in the Montgomery case. He has specialised for over 35 years in clinical negligence, medical law and medical disciplinary cases. He has appeared in a succession of major cases in the House of Lords, the UK Supreme Court, the Privy Council, the GMC and the GDC, and also in the High Court and the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong. He has been a Deputy High Court Judge, a Recorder of the Crown Court, and a President of the Mental Health Review Tribunal. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"heading\">Video:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>Click\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZtpdgP8shHY\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery gallery_ids=&#8221;3077,3075,3051,3053,3055,3057,3059,3061,3073,3071,3069,3067,3065,3063&#8243; posts_number=&#8221;14&#8243; show_title_and_caption=&#8221;off&#8221; show_pagination=&#8221;off&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;Gallery&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.14.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_gallery][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4530,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false},"events_types":[262],"events_feature":[126],"events_year":[274],"class_list":["post-8784","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","events_types-public-talks-zh","events_feature-other-events-zh","events_year-2016-zh"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - 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