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CRIMINAL DEFENCE

Find the inconsistency in the served material

Defence preparation is a reading exercise against the clock. The material is served in bulk, often as scans, and the case frequently turns on a discrepancy between two accounts of the same event.

Questions this practice actually asks

“Where do the witness statements contradict each other?”
Statements are broken into claims and each claim is compared with the whole served bundle. A conflicting pair is shown with both quotations, document and page, for you to confirm or dismiss.
“How do I search served material that arrived as scans?”
Every page of the served material goes through OCR on import, with no page ceiling, and pages that came out below 70% confidence are flagged so you check them against the original.
“What is the timeline of the alleged events?”
The events come out of the statements with their dates and times and land on one timeline, each with the statement and the page it came from.

Scans that cannot be searched

Served bundles arrive as images. Without OCR the material is invisible to search, which means it is invisible during preparation.

Discrepancies hide in volume

Two statements describing the same evening, filed weeks apart, rarely get read side by side.

Short notice

Material arrives late and the hearing does not move.

What Legalnaut does about it

  • Scanned material goes through OCR on import, every page, so the served bundle becomes searchable text.
  • Statements are broken into claims and compared; conflicting pairs are put in front of you with both sources, and a witness dossier gathers every statement of one person with the inconsistencies the bundle shows.
  • An examination outline is written from the dossier alone: background, helpful facts, harmful facts, and an impeachment sequence for each inconsistency, every question pointing at a line with its cite.
  • A chronology of the alleged events is assembled from the material itself.
A witness dossier: statements, what was said about them, and the inconsistencies, each with its cite.

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