The value of effective cross-examination has roots as early as biblical times. In later times, John Henry Wigmore claimed that cross-examination was the greatest legal invention for discovering the ...

Cross-examination is like a chain saw. In the hands of the careless advocate, it can dismember your own client’s case with a single mistake. For the prepared trial lawyer, cross-examination offers the ...

While watching her father cross-examine a witness in To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout Finch invokes the first rule of cross-examination that most lawyers—Atticus Finch included—learn: “Never, never, never ...

Cross-examination is the stuff of drama in fictional courtroom depictions. The savvy lawyer taking on a hostile witness on the stand—these are the moments TV and movie audiences live for. However, the ...

Understanding the cross-examiner’s objectives can help an expert witness prepare to take the stand. It is not difficult to identify foundational principles that, if properly understood and applied, ...

Michael Cohen has returned to the stand as the prosecution’s star witness against former president Donald Trump.

Nearly three and a half years into the Trump Administration’s term, the United States Department of Education has finally published its new regulations governing campus sexual assault cases. The ...

As defence lawyers have been grilling the complainant in the sexual assault trial for five former world junior hockey players, they've commented several times that she had clearly been well prepared ...