Astark seminar room is the setting for an exercise that will give final year BA and MA social work students at the University of East Anglia (UEA) their first taste of what it might be like to give evidence in court.
They will be cross-examined by students from the university's law school in the family court role-play, staged once a year. It is something the law students tend to enjoy rather more than the social work students, explains UEA lecturer in law Polly Morgan. "Some of the law students wear their suits, and the social work students are a bit taken aback," she says.
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