Civil Litigation · glossary
A document that hurts a party’s own case or helps the other side’s. Under every disclosure model, a party must disclose the adverse documents it knows of. Ravensett disclosed its press logs, which show one week when the press ran above its setting. Chapter 7 · see Model D
Explained in Chapter 7, Disclosure and Privilege, of Civil Litigation.
Every model includes known adverse documents: documents that hurt a party’s own case or help the other side’s. If a party knows of one, it must disclose it, even where no search would have found it. Ravensett may hold a document back only if it is privileged.Read Chapter 7, Disclosure and Privilege →
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