Human Rights Education: Death penalty
defence training
Defending someone against execution requires specialist knowledge
of every available avenue of hope. For this reason, each year
in Spring and Autumn, in association with Amicus, Reprieve
presents a programme that trains legal defence teams fighting
death penalty cases in the US, giving them the practical skills
and theoretical tools they need and making them aware of the
issues they’ll have to face.
The training is run with the Louisiana based organisation,
A Fighting Chance, along with leading practitioners and academics
from the UK. As well as defence counsels in the US, it assists
people considering volunteering in the US and those interested
in helping capital work from the UK.
Spread over a number of evening and weekend sessions, this
comprehensive programme covers the US system of trials and
appeals, US Constitutional Standards, typical death penalty
issues, ethics and international human rights law issues,
research and investigation skills, including document collection
and management, and witness interviewing skills.
The course is registered for 23 CPD hours with the Bar Council
and the Law Society.
The comprehensive programme is divided into evening and weekend sessions. This year's training is as detailed below:
| Theory Weekend (Fri 29 Feb, Sat 1 and Sun 2 Mar 2008) |
| Introductory Evening |
| Trial and Appeal: US Constitutional Standard and Death Penalty Issues |
Ethics/International Human Rights Law
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| Practical Training Weekend (Sat 29 and Sun 30 Mar 2008) |
| Research and Investigation Skills |
| Interview Skills |
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