Comments on: Drama in the Dock: life-like learning for students http://www.port.ac.uk/uopnews/2012/01/31/drama-in-the-dock-life-like-learning-for-students/ News from the University of Portsmouth Tue, 14 May 2013 13:17:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Emma Tameside http://www.port.ac.uk/uopnews/2012/01/31/drama-in-the-dock-life-like-learning-for-students/#comment-1633 Emma Tameside Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:07:37 +0000 http://www.port.ac.uk/uopnews/?p=2862#comment-1633 Practice scenarios like this are essential for any law student, be them moots or other situations where the students can put into practice the many hours of theory they have learned. This is especially true for students hoping to work as barristers and in-court lawyers. I think one of the best thing about scenarios like this for students on <a href="http://kaplan-law-school.kaplan.co.uk/GDL/Pages/default.aspx" rel="nofollow">gdl courses</a> is that they learn to incorporate pressure and process into their skillsets. It's all well and good to plot something out on paper, when you have all the time in the world to form your sentences, but when you are in a courtroom setting, with a defendant, prosecutor, judge and jury, it's a whole other game and it's a really important skill to learn. I'm glad it's part of the syllabus. Practice scenarios like this are essential for any law student, be them moots or other situations where the students can put into practice the many hours of theory they have learned. This is especially true for students hoping to work as barristers and in-court lawyers.

I think one of the best thing about scenarios like this for students on gdl courses is that they learn to incorporate pressure and process into their skillsets. It’s all well and good to plot something out on paper, when you have all the time in the world to form your sentences, but when you are in a courtroom setting, with a defendant, prosecutor, judge and jury, it’s a whole other game and it’s a really important skill to learn. I’m glad it’s part of the syllabus.

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