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Performing" is a word I use quite deliberately because one famous litigator actually insisted that a successful trial lawyer should be a "good actor". I guess we always knew that, but who expected any lawyer to actually admit it, nay, proclaim it as a virtue?On TV the other night Jay Leno showed a night school flyer offering "Fiction Writing for Lawyers". He suggested that was redundant. 
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Carpal Tunnel
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mm, interesting. Another friend with a legal skeleton or two in their closet suggests key features of 'hostile' or 'adverse' witness questioning includes:
1. The ability to ask leading questions
2. The ability to cross-question
(which latter still begs the question but!)
I still do not really know how (if at all) this concept fits into UK practice - and what happens Down Over, guys?
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Is cross-question the same as cross-examine?
To ask the question begged.
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Ok, where is our Michigander Sparteye, Esquire?
Today a day you have time to peek in, Ann ?
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Yes, I think so, if I have understood the distinctions correctly: it suggests a process of enquiry that subjects all answers to continued questioning, without the kind of limitation grapho spelled out above.
It was the point about leading questions being permissable that pertickly innerested me though!
What happens in Oz and Zild and Suth Efrika? or do we all in practice know so little about the bastions of our freedoms?
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Cross-examining etc. in Zild
>do we all in practice know so little about the bastions of our freedoms?
I don't know about y'all, but I must answer the above question in the affirmative. My knowledge of NZ jurisprudence is somewhat less than my experience of writing Sanskrit poetry.
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