To persuade the court to change the law and to manage my client's expectations as to the prospects of doing so.

The main challenge was to persuade the court that a ballot in which 92 per cent of those voting wanted to take strike action, was nevertheless an invalid one.

You will need to persuade the court otherwise, and show that you have acted reasonably by hiring a car and by keeping the hire-car costs as low as possible.

The issue was to persuade the court that the case involved a point of law of public importance, as opposed to merely an absurd outcome at trial.

We had to persuade the court that we were right on the law; also that the underlying merits were on our side.