Chronology & Evidence Map

Create a litigation chronology and evidence map from Malaysian legal files. Use whenever facts span multiple documents, emails, WhatsApp messages, contracts, invoices, reports, affidavits or witness accounts.

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name: chronology-evidence-map
description: Create a litigation chronology and evidence map from Malaysian legal files. Use whenever facts span multiple documents, emails, WhatsApp messages, contracts, invoices, reports, affidavits or witness accounts.
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# Chronology & Evidence Map

## 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

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

## Workflow

1. Extract every material event with exact date/time where available.
2. For each event identify source document, author, recipient and evidential status.
3. Separate contemporaneous evidence from later recollection.
4. Link each event to pleaded or potential legal issues.
5. Mark contradictions, unexplained gaps and missing source documents.
6. Create a witness-to-issue and document-to-issue map.

## Default output

- Master chronology
- Evidence matrix
- Witness matrix
- Contradictions
- Gaps
- Issue-linked timeline

## 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.

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