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Fact Investigation and Case Theory: A Living Map

Most disputes are decided on the facts. An investigation starts with the client's account, separates fact from inference, assumption and opinion, lists the sources that could prove each fact and preserves them, interviews witnesses without shaping the answers, builds a sourced chronology and a cast of characters, weighs the accounts with stated reasons and a guard against the investigator's own bias, stays within the limits of the law and the profession, and ends with a case theory: a story the facts support, mapped to the legal elements, tested against the other side's best story, with a decision about what to do next. Press Play to watch the map build, click an idea for its definition and the usual trap, or trace a short case. A simplified teaching map.

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Hover over an idea to light up what it connects to, click it for its definition, minimum requirements, an example and the usual trap, press Play to watch the map build step by step, or trace a short case through it.

Simplified teaching map, in general terms. Check the law where you work. On a small screen, scroll the map sideways.

Learn it properly

The full lecture, exercises and quiz behind this map are in Fact Investigation and Case Theory: Module 1, and that module is free to read.

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