6.3 Trial Advocacy Skill

6.3.1 Case-oriented legal research: the research as the case's servant (not the academic's tour): the issue framed from the facts (the question shaped — facts to law mapped); the sources searched — the statute in its current version (amendments and commencement checked), the case-law (the precedent hierarchy respected — the Supreme Court's decisions binding; the NKP and the databases searched; the citation verified — never cite the unverified); the secondary materials (persuasive only); the synthesis — the authorities organised, the rule extracted, the adverse authority faced not hidden (the candour discipline again). 6.3.2 Case preparations: the theory of the case — the one-paragraph story (the facts + the law + the remedy as a coherent whole; every document and question serving the theory); the evidence mapped — the elements matrix (the proof needed vs the proof held; the gaps attacked; the witness list, the exhibit list); the procedure planned — the forum and jurisdiction checked, the limitation verified; the opposition anticipated — the counter-arguments pre- answered (the preparation's preparation); the interim-relief strategy (the bail, the injunction, the preservation — the early victory's value). 6.3.3 Organization of arguments: the architecture of 6.2.4 built from 6.3.1-6.3.2's materials: the issues ranked (the winnable emphasised, the peripheral conceded); the authorities marshalled (the strongest precedent the pillar); the story and the law interwoven (the facts…