Supreme Court Justice R. M. Lodha once said, "List of dates does not lie".
It means if we want to discover truth behind any scene, case, reported news or any fact study, first put all facts chronologically and date wise.
While making, this list, do not insert in it your interpretations, inferences, impressions, or what client may have told you etc.
Just facts and nothing but facts.
Begin at the beginning.
None of the available and facts should be allowed to escape. The list should not be of selective dates.
Once and objective list is made Truth Speaks From It On Its Own.
This is how great Judges and Lawyers prepare their cases. The hard work here is to Get Your Facts Straight
My senior Vasant Desai used to say, " Try to build your case on solid facts. If you build your arguments on law, a Judge can take a different view and can go against you. But he cannot change or substitute facts to go against you."
A criminal lawyer is supposed to imagine and reconstruct a crime scene on minute to minute basis. Then if any exaggeration, false statement is made, it can be torn apart.
Tasks assigned to Juniors in big law offices:
In big law office, a fresh Junior advocate is
asked to :
A) First, arrange all papers in a file as per dates chronologically.
B) Then, prepare a computerised list of Documents, showing in columns, serial number of document, date of document, nature of document and remarks.
The Point: In every case Facts are in a Jumble.
It is really a hard work to put them as per dates and chronology. But this is a very great help to Senior Advocates and Judges.
If a Junior Advocate has made neat and tidy list of dates in about a hundred cases, he will have good chance of being engaged by Senior Advocates.
Haresh Raichura
8/11/13
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