1987 Judgment Reconstruction Matrix

Reconstruct the litigation from the court record rather than from later summaries.

Step	Required record	Question
1. Pleadings	Claim, defence, counterclaim and amendments	What exactly was each party asking the court to decide?
2. Evidence	Witness statements, exhibits, plans, deeds, correspondence	What evidence was actually before the court?
3. Submissions	Skeletons, written/oral submissions where retained	What propositions were advanced and answered?
4. Findings	High Court judgment and reasons	Which propositions were actually decided?
5. Appeal	Court of Appeal judgment and papers	What was affirmed, rejected, omitted or left undecided?
6. Later material	Records discovered after judgment	Was the material unavailable then, undisclosed, misunderstood or merely overlooked?
7. Materiality	Document-to-proposition analysis	Could the new or suppressed material realistically change a material finding?
8. Remedy	Procedural/legal route	What route, if any, remains legally open?

Fraud control: do not label the judgment fraudulent because the Wiki has found contrary evidence. First establish what the court was told, what was available, what was withheld if anything, and the legal consequence.