On November 11th, in order to improve the practical ability and professional quality of law students in preparing for moot court, Li Rong, the instructor of Beimo of Central University for Nationalities, invited Sun Guangzhi, a senior partner of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, to give a special lecture on “Skills of Preparing for Moot Court” for the students who have taken the moot court course and the debate team of the school on the Fengtai Campus. “The lecture was organized by Mr. Sun Guangzhi, a senior partner of Beijing Kyoto Law Firm, on Fengtai Campus.
As a well-known criminal defense lawyer in China, Mr. Sun Guangzhi has rich experience in courtroom defense, and has also accumulated rich experience in instructing courtroom defense skills during his time as a training instructor of King&Capital Law Firm's Criminal Defense Practical Training Seminar.
Mr. Sun's lecture focused on the competition mechanism of Beijing University Students' Mock Trial Competition, and analyzed in detail the preparation strategies and coping skills of each link in the Mock Trial Competition from problem solving to court defense from multiple dimensions, bringing valuable practical guidance to students who will participate in the Mock Trial Competition.
In the lecture, Mr. Sun took the competition questions of the mock court competition as an example, and pointed out through the analysis of the “question description” that the mock court competition tends to pay more attention to the analysis and judgment of the substantive issues in the design of the competition questions, and suggested that students should put the questions about the conviction and sentencing, i.e., the questions about the crime and the non-crime, and the minor and the major crime in the first place in the preparation for the competition.
After that, Mr. Sun pointed out that the presentation of facts and proof of evidence are the core contents of the court investigation part of the trial, and focused on sharing the skills and insights of trial questioning and court cross-examination. Combined with the previous questions of the North Model, Mr. Sun instructed students on how to build a complete and convincing defense logic through the corroborative relationship between direct and indirect evidence, combining the proof of evidence with the standard of evidence, rules of thumb, dialectical thinking, and other elements.
Mr. Sun encouraged students to focus on self-expression at the factual and evidentiary levels, while also questioning the facts claimed by the other side and the supporting evidence, and digging deep into the details and reasonable doubt behind the evidence, suggesting that “we not only need to present to the court the evidentiary information that can support the factual claims of our side, but also present to the court the evidentiary information that can counter the factual claims of the other side, so that we can try our best to present to the court the facts at the factual level. The court, so as to try to achieve the effect of the game of 'persuade' the court on the factual level.”
In addition, Mr. Sun Guangzhi also put forward some insights on the mock court competition based on his experience as a judge of the mock court competition. He emphasized that in the competition, special attention should be paid to the rigor and logic of the legal documents (indictment, public opinion, defense statement, etc.), to avoid the overall effect of the negligence of the details. At the same time, he reminded the students that they should always keep calm and respond calmly in court debates, and pay attention to some possible problems of the opposing contestants, such as possible logical loopholes, misalignment of prosecution and defense positions, and internal conflict of viewpoints, etc., to which they should be able to detect, summarize, and respond effectively in time.
This seminar provided students with a valuable opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of the actual battle of the trial, and many of them said they had benefited a lot after the seminar. Lawyer Sun Guangzhi also greatly inspired students' enthusiasm and confidence in criminal defense while vividly restoring the situation of trial practice. Teachers of the Law School present said that Mr. Sun's vivid and detailed lectures helped students to further understand and master the experience and skills of criminal defense, and pointed out the direction and methods of efforts to improve the skills of criminal defense.
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