Opening statement for the mock trial for the defendant side

Opening statement for the mock trial for the defendant side

2. Questions for Direct examination questions of  Kluane Highschool  – Defendant 

3. Questions Re examination of  Ketkluane Highschool – Defendant  (if required) 

4. QUESTIONS for Cross examination of Marchus Fadey – Plaintiff

WHAT HAPPENED? 

On March 2, 20** The Ketkluane High School Tigers played in the basketball league championship game against the Bjorkbell High School Bulldogs. The game was played in the Ketkluane High gymnasium, and many of the school’s students turned out to support their team. 

After a slow start, the Ketkluane Tigers came from behind and tied the game at the final buzzer. With the crowd cheering them on, the Ketkluane Tigers tri- umphed – for the third year in a row – as Marcus Fadey sank the winning three point shot in the last few seconds of overtime. 

After this spectacular win, the crowd streamed onto court to congratulate the players. As had become a tradition over the last couple of years, the players (including Marcus) and some enthusiastic crowd members helped empty the water cooler over their coach’s head. 

Even though he had been distracted by the recent break up with his ex-girlfriend, Lakia Rami, Marcus was thrilled with this win. There had been scouts from at least two American universities in the stands, and he had played the best game of his career. Plus, he was happy to have beaten the Bjorkbell High team, because the team captain was his old friend Yasir Patel who had recently started seeing Mar- cus’s ex-girlfriend, Lakia. 

After the game, in the change room, the team decided to go out for dinner. Mar- cus decided to catch up with them a bit later because he wanted to speak with Lakia. He heard from one of her friends that she was in the stands during the game, and was having second thoughts about breaking up with him. 

Shortly after 8pm, Marcus walked from the change room into the now empty gym. He called Lakia on his new iPhone, and paced around the gym as the con- versation became quite intense. He glanced over when he heard a noise at the change room door, and saw Yasir Patel enter the gym. Yasir was looking for a jersey he had left behind, but soon realised that Marcus was on the phone with Lakia. 

“Hey! Are you talking to Lakia?!” Yasir yelled from across the gym. “Yeah, do you have a problem with that?!” Marcus yelled in response. Still on the phone, eyes fixed on Yasir, Marcus started walking across the gym to where Yasir was stand- ing. Marcus didn’t notice the water puddle left over from emptying the water cooler on the coach. Before he reached Yasir, he slipped and fell. Marcus sustained a mild concussion, broke his wrist badly, and needed surgery. He was in a cast for two and a half months, and has been in physiotherapy since the cast was removed. 

Because of his injuries, Marcus was unable to play on the basketball team during his last year of high school, and so lost his chance at the basketball scholarship he had been hoping for. Now he’ll have to pay his own university tuition. He also lost his job at Belding Construction Co. because he was unable to do the heavy lifting required. 

After the accident, Marcus sued Ketkluane High School for negligence for leaving the unsafe situation in the gym. In his lawsuit, Marcus asked for the following in damages: 

$20,000 for loss of opportunity of a basketball scholarship; 

$10,000 for lost wages due to inability to perform the required duties of his employment; 

$400 for the damage to his iPhone; 

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