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name: witness-trial-preparation
description: Prepare Malaysian civil trial witnesses, witness statements, examination-in-chief structure, cross-examination themes and re-examination issues. Use when preparing for trial or evidential hearings.
---

# Witness & Trial Preparation

## Core rules

- Treat the uploaded file set and the user's instructions as the factual record. Do not invent missing facts.
- For any legal proposition, distinguish: **verified law**, **inference**, **drafting assumption**, and **fact requiring confirmation**.
- Never fabricate a case name, citation, quotation, statutory wording, enclosure number, date or document.
- Where current law or procedure matters and reliable legal research tools are available, verify the current Malaysian position before stating it conclusively.
- Prefer Malaysian primary sources and binding Malaysian authorities.
- Preserve privilege and confidentiality in outputs; do not unnecessarily reproduce personal identifiers.
- Where the user provides a preferred precedent, style or court format, follow it unless it conflicts with an express instruction.
- Draft in English or Bahasa Malaysia according to the user's request. Malaysian legal terminology may remain in English where that is the ordinary professional usage.
- Be concise. Produce work product rather than generic legal lectures.


## Malaysian legal framework to check

- Evidence Act 1950
- Rules of Court 2012
- applicable witness-statement directions

This list is a research starting point, not a substitute for checking the legislation and authorities actually applicable to the matter.

## Workflow

1. Identify what facts this witness can personally prove.
2. Map witness evidence to pleaded issues and documentary exhibits.
3. Remove hearsay, speculation and unnecessary legal conclusions unless admissible.
4. Identify vulnerabilities, prior inconsistent statements and documents likely to be put in cross-examination.
5. Draft non-leading examination themes and likely cross-examination topics.
6. Prepare re-examination topics limited to matters arising.

## Default output

- Witness role
- Issues proved
- Draft/edited witness statement
- Key documents
- Cross-examination vulnerabilities
- EIC/cross/re-exam plan

## Quality control

Before finalising:
1. Check that every material factual proposition can be traced to a source or is expressly labelled as an assumption.
2. Check names, dates, figures, document titles and defined terms.
3. Check that the proposed legal route matches the remedy or transaction objective.
4. Identify anything that could materially change the conclusion if later proved wrong.
5. Do not add generic disclaimers. Give the lawyer a usable work product.