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Standards  \nDuring the training contract, trainee solicitors develop and apply the practice skills they will use as qualified solicitors.  \nThe key elements of each skill – and the type of experience that will help trainees to develop it – are specified in the Practice Skills Standards.  \nTrainees develop the skills through a mixture of the following activities  \n1. completing work and tasks by themselves  \n2. assisting others  \n3. observing experienced practitioners.  \nSupervisors must ensure that, over the course of their training, the amount and type of work given to trainees adequately covers each skill and is of an appropriate level and complexity for the trainee in question.  \nAdvocacy and oral presentation  \nOn completing the training contract, trainee solicitors should be competent to exercise the rights of audience available to solicitors on admission.  \nTheir experience will enable them to understand  \n1. the communication skills of the advocate  \n2. the techniques and tactics of examination, cross-examination and re-examination  \n3. the need to act in accordance with the ethics, etiquette and conventions of the professional advocate.  \nThe tasks trainees perform must enable them to grasp the principal skills required to prepare, conduct and present a case:  \n1. identifying the client’s goals  \n2. identifying and analysing relevant factual and legal issues, and relating them to one another  \n3. summarising the strengths and weaknesses of the case  \n4. planning how to present the case  \n5. outlining the facts in simple narrative form  \n6. formulating a coherent submission based on the facts, general principles and legal authority in a structured, concise and persuasive manner.  \nThe following activities are likely to foster these skills:  \n1. helping to advise on pre-trial procedures  \n2. helping to prepare cases before trial  \n3. with one or more lawyers, attending the magistrates’ courts to observe trials, bail applications, pleas of mitigation or committal, and observing submissions in chambers, examination, cross examination and re-examination in open court  \n4. observing proceedings in family cases, industrial tribunals, planning tribunals or other tribunals or forms of dispute resolution  \n[5. as](5. as) training progresses, and under appropriate supervision, conducting interim applications before a Master or District Judge  \n6. becoming involved in presentations for clients or in preparing or delivering in-house training.  \nCase and transaction management  \nTrainee solicitors must begin to acquire skills in managing and running a case or transaction. 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