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Checklist: Summing up

Icon - checklist You can print this checklist and take it to the hearing with you so that you can make notes while the witnesses are giving evidence. When you are summing up your case at the end of the hearing you can use this checklist to help you prepare.

For more information, see At the hearing.

Icon - alert This checklist is not legal advice.

Your defence
	What is your defence? (for example, you didn't do it, accident, self-defence, you have an alibi, you had a legal right)
	Why your evidence and your witness's evidence should be believed
Prosecution's witnesses (do this for each witness)
	Witness name:
	What did they say they saw or heard?
	Were there any gaps or inconsistencies or did they contradict themselves?
	Did they say something different in the witness box to what was in their statement?
	Was there anything they weren't sure about?
Your witnesses (do this for each witness including you)
	Witness name:
	What did they say they saw or heard?
	Why should the magistrate believe their version of events? (for example, they were an eye witness)
	Which part of their evidence was most convincing? (for example, they stuck to their story under cross-examination or the evidence they gave to the police was the same as what they gave in the witness box)
	Did you or any of your witness's evidence contradict the evidence of the prosecution's witnesses?
Final remarks
	The prosecution has not proved beyond reasonable doubt that you committed the offence
	The magistrate should find you not guilty

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Checklist: Summing up