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As an advocate (in Scotland), you'd provide legal advice to professional clients and solicitors, and act on behalf of organizations and individuals at tribunals or in court. You'd sometimes recognized as counsel, and do similar work as barristers in Northern Ireland, England and Wales.
Being an advocate, your job would comprise:
- providing written-opinions on legal issues or cases
- studying law points by previous parallel cases
- giving advices to solicitors and other professionals
- arranging cases for court, with reading reports and statements of witness
- visiting solicitors and different professionals who seek advice from advocates on their client's behalf
- acting on behalf of clients at public enquiries or tribunals, or in court: representing the case to jury and judge, questioning witnesses and summing up
- arranging legal-arguments to utilize at tribunals or in court
The time period you employ within court will rely on the kind of case you're working on. Criminal cases will include you to spend more time preparing for cases and presenting in court, while in civil law, or chancery law (giving advices on estates, wills, trusts and company law), your job will be office based.
Qualification, Education and Experience:
You must fulfill the academic requirements of Faculty of Advocates and also accomplish vocational training, to be an advocate.
Before beginning your training, you should hold any of following qualifications to enroll with the Faculty as a trainee member:
- honors degree into Scottish Law by Scottish-university
- degree into Scottish Law by Scottish university
- degree into Scottish Law by Scottish university, with an honors degree in other subjects
You'll require minimum five S grades (1 to 3), and 5 Higher with English, to gain a degree in Scottish law. Other qualifications might be allowed, thus for correct admission requirements, check with distinct providers of course.
Most of the advocates begin their training immediately after gaining degree in law, although this isn't necessary.
Training Details:
After accomplishing the academic phase, you should get further training to be eligible to work as an advocate. To achieve this, you should accomplish:
- a 21-month period of work within an office of solicitor
- the Faculty of Advocate's examinations into Evidence, Procedure and Practice
- the Diploma into Legal Practice, a postgraduate course by Scottish university
After qualifying, you should maintain your knowledge and skills updated all through your vocation. You could carry on your career development through participating into the Faculty's continuing-education program of conferences, seminars, workshops and courses.
Skills and knowledge:
- capability to avoid being emotionally concerned in cases
- public speaking abilities
- capability to work under-pressure
- excellent research and writing abilities
- discretion, to work with confidential data
- capability to scrutinize large-amounts of data
- outstanding advocacy and communication skills
- an analytical approach and concentration to details
Salary and Other Benefits:
The majority of advocates work on freelance basis, so earnings can rely on the number of cases worked on and reputation.
- Trainees can get about £11,000 annually.
- Advocates who are practicing can receive around £26,000 to £310,000 annually.
- Remunerations within the Procurator-Fiscal Service can be around £28,000 to £56,000 for a year.
Working Conditions:
Your hours of working would generally be long and might comprise weekends and evenings.
Being an advocate within private-practice, you'd be working in Advocate's Library in Edinburgh within advocate's group, and divide working time between court and group.
Then again, you may work for particular employer like the Procurator-Fiscal Service or a commercial firm, working in employer's offices and attending tribunals, meetings and court as required.
While in court you'd put on formal outfit comprising a gown and wig, otherwise business-outfit is anticipated.
Different Opportunities:
The majority of advocates work on freelance basis. Then again, you can decide to work in regional or central government, or as a legal adviser for a commercial firm.
By experience, you can be a depute within the Crown Office and Procurator-Fiscal Service, or a sheriff. After practice of about 10 years, you can apply to take-silk and be a judge, or be a Queen's Counsel (senior advocate).
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