Who it serves
Lawyers preparing advice, matters or disputes.
The task
Use a fictional client question and matter record alongside an instructor-verified pack of current primary sources for a named UK jurisdiction. Identify the legal and factual questions, examine citations and passages, assess relevance, note adverse material and record uncertainty before preparing the brief.
The exercise
For each point: issue, jurisdiction and date, source and passage, relevance to the facts, opposing consideration, unresolved gap, and the lawyer's reviewed conclusion.
What you practise
- —Framing legal and factual questions precisely
- —Checking each citation against the passage it relies on
- —Recording adverse material and honest uncertainty
- —Separating retrieval from the work of checking and applying a source