Sentences with phrase «direct examination of witnesses»

Advised on an internal forensic investigation and direct examination of witnesses for an employee misconduct matter with high media attention.

This session will focus on the conducting direct examination of witnesses at deposition and trial in civil cases.

Following the direct examination of a witness, cross examination is the follow - up questioning («examination»).

Not exact matches

By directing answers to the decision maker and seeking their assistance the witness can carry out their role despite the techniques of cross examination.

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Trial Techniques: Direct and Cross Examination of Expert Witnesses Guest Lecturer, Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association Seminar (October 1994)

On 17 May 2018, CAM and IAA will host the course: «Examination of witnesses: Cross-examination, direct and re-direct a demonstration of common law practice».

After Petitioner questions each witness (i.e., Direct Examination), the other party will have an opportunity to ask questions of the same witness (i.e., Cross Examination), the Petitioner will then have the opportunity to ask another round of questions to address issues raised in the questions asked by the Respondent (i.e., Redirect Examination).

The wife had presented only one witness, and the husband's counsel had not even finished with direct examination of the husband.

In his decision, the judge noted first that Charging Party was a «highly uncooperative witness, who effortlessly answered virtually all of the General Counsel's direct examination queries, but then responded to equally simple cross-examination questions with delays, pauses, additional questions, recollection issues, and reported confusion.»

Under such an approach, the direct examination should be tightly controlled by the examiner, the direct - examination witness should be given little or no leeway, and the attention of the fact - finder during examination should be on the examiner, not the witness.

A number of advantages can be realized by using cross-examination techniques to conduct a direct examination and thereby argue your case through the window of a witness.

Thus, like cross-examination, direct examination becomes an opportunity for the examiner to argue his or her case through the window of a witness.

Similar to cross-examination, the examiner can argue the case through the window of the direct - examination witness.

It seems undeniable that in a trial, if one of the lawyers spends 80 or 100 percent of his or her cross - and direct - examination time arguing his or her case through the window of the witnesses on the stand and the opposing attorney using traditional methods gives up the opportunity to argue the case during direct examination (and as a result is able to argue his or her case through the window of the witnesses on the stand only 50 percent or less of the time), the first lawyer will have the advantage.

The advantage of arguing the case through a witness on direct examination is that it is powerful and undeniable, and it allows you to repeat and emphasize important points.

Jan instructs the Fall Trial Advocacy Class, examining topics related to all aspects of the trial process, including openings, direct examinations, cross examinations, expert witnesses, and summations.

In direct examination, he testified that at the scene of the accident a witness had written down the accident location on his vehicle registration papers and he could not read her handwriting so reported to ICBC that the accident had happened in New Westminster and that he was coming from Douglas College.

Advances have been made in the quality of communication via videoconferencing, which has all but eliminated the problems often associated with videoconferencing in the early days of its use, which involved time delays in the transmission and which in turn frequently resulted in counsel and witnesses talking over each other and which made for a less than satisfactory method of conducting both direct or cross examination.

The students conducted direct and cross examination of four witnesses and upon their recommendation, the judge conducted a watermeier hearing with the minor which lasted over an hour, after which, the judge granted the father sole custody of the minor.

To the extent called to the attention of an expert witness upon cross-examination or relied upon by the expert witness in direct examination, statements contained in published treatises, periodicals, or pamphlets on a subject of history, medicine, or other science or art, established a reliable authority by the testimony or admission of the witness or by other expert testimony or by judicial notice.

As @cpast correctly points out in his comment, the rules allow direct examination of hostile witnesses.

(f) At the conclusion of direct examination, the opposing party or his counsel may cross-examine the witness.