Contradiction

A contradiction is a pair of statements in the case file that cannot both be true, each one anchored to the document it appears in.

A witness statement puts a meeting in June. An invoice for the same work is dated March. One of them is wrong, and which one is wrong matters.

Contradictions are findings, not errors. They are the raw material of cross-examination, and they are the reason a case file is worth reading in full rather than in summary.

Finding them by hand means holding a thousand documents in your head at once. Finding them mechanically means comparing every claim against every other claim and putting the surviving pairs in front of a lawyer to judge.

Related: Claim, Chronology, Exhibit

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