Litigation & Advocacy

Welcome to Litigation & Advocacy. This video adapts a worked example from your published course reading, then shows how to practise through the learning management system. Litigation and advocacy preparation pathway. Sign in and open your authorised course through the study header. Select a lesson from its current published reading list. With Auto audio on, Course Tutor teaches continuously, answers a typed question, then resumes. The reading uses precise procedural language to connect a requested outcome with the case’s actual stage. A familiar label is insufficient if it asks for a step the court has not reached. In its civil example, a defendant is absent at a hearing. Counsel immediately asks for a decree, but the judge points out that the claimant’s case has not yet been heard. The source distinguishes proceeding without the defendant from proving entitlement to the final relief. Check service and the applicable rule for the particular hearing before asking the court to proceed ex parte. That procedural step does not itself establish every pleaded fact or quantify the final relief. The claimant must still present a legally sufficient case, and the court must assess the relevant material. Identify which issue the proposed order would decide and what remains to be established. A precise request separates permission to proceed in the defendant’s absence from a final decree. State the hearing stage, the relevant procedural facts and the next step. Do not ask the judge to treat absence as a substitute for the merits. Does the defendant’s absence automatically establish the amount claimed? Include the illustration's given facts and the step you tried when asking Course Tutor. No. Identify the basis and support for the amount. An unanswered assertion and a justified finding are different steps in the court’s reasoning. Now try this related practice question. For an original variation, counsel has a summons document but the record does not establish that it was duly served before the first hearing. What must be checked before requesting an ex-parte hearing? Pause before checking the answer. Check the service record and the applicable requirements, including whether service was sufficient and timely. Do not infer valid service merely because the summons was prepared. Then identify the order appropriate to the established facts. Use this learning routine with your course's published material. Read, attempt a step, ask about what is unclear, and compare your reasoning. Revisit an error before continuing to the next lesson.