Recorded Webinar: Affidavit Drafting Masterclass for Commercial Lawyers

How can you tell your witness’s story in a way that helps them? How do you decide what’s in and what’s out? This practical session ensures you draft your affidavits for clarity, simplicity and, most importantly, admissibility. It covers:

• Planning an affidavit – what is its purpose?
• Understanding the rules of evidence when drafting the affidavit:
  • what can and can’t you say?
  • properly identifying how the witness knows something
• Tips and pitfalls when drafting:
  • establishing the witness’s credibility from the outset
  • setting the scene – but keeping it simple
  • capturing the voice of the witness in the drafting
• Drafting differences between affidavits for final versus interlocutory hearings
• Proper use of annexures and exhibits
• When to use an index or table of contents
• Drafting techniques that irritate judges