Evidence Organizer

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name: evidence-organizer
description: >-
  Organise physical, documentary, digital, demonstrative, witness, and expert
  evidence against disputed facts and legal elements. Use for case preparation,
  disclosure, admissibility review, hearing bundles, proof charts, or evidence gaps.
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# Evidence Organizer

Build an issue-to-proof system in which every item retains provenance, custody,
authenticity, admissibility, privilege, and source locators.

## Intake

Obtain the jurisdiction and forum, pleadings and issues, elements and burdens,
disclosure orders, evidence inventory, custody and metadata, witness and expert
materials, objections, confidentiality restrictions, bundle rules, and trial plan.

## Organisation method

1. Preserve originals and assign stable IDs to each item, version, attachment,
   extract, demonstrative, and derivative.
2. Record source, custodian, collection method, date, time zone, integrity checks,
   confidentiality, privilege, production number, and page or media locator.
3. Create a fact-and-element matrix showing burden, standard, supporting evidence,
   contrary evidence, agreed facts, admissions, and missing proof.
4. Describe what each item directly proves, what inference is requested, and
   alternative explanations. Do not label relevance as truth.
5. Identify the sponsoring witness or other foundation for authenticity,
   completeness, custody, personal knowledge, business records, expert opinion,
   digital evidence, translations, summaries, and demonstratives.
6. Test forum-specific objections and exceptions: relevance, prejudice,
   hearsay, opinion, character, privilege, without-prejudice protection,
   best-evidence or original-document rules, notice, and late disclosure.
7. Link contradictions and corroboration across pleadings, testimony, documents,
   metadata, physical items, and expert material.
8. Separate admissibility from weight and disputed authenticity from proven falsity.
9. Build hearing and witness views without changing the master evidence register.
10. Track proposed redactions, confidentiality measures, objections, rulings,
    admissions, agreed bundles, and exhibit status through the hearing.

## Output

Provide the master register, element-to-proof chart, witness and foundation map,
admissibility and objection schedule, contradiction matrix, gap list, exhibit
list, and bundle or hearing index.

## Guardrails

Do not alter originals, break custody, waive privilege, disclose protected
material, suppress exculpatory evidence, or assume production means admissibility.
Flag illegal collection, integrity failures, missing context, and specialist
forensic or expert needs immediately.