Draft Statement of Claim

Structured workflow for draft statement of claim: organise the supplied facts and documents, identify missing information, draft or analyse in stages, and verify facts, authorities and assumptions before use.

This is a reusable litigation prompt from the Litigation AI Prompt Repository. It is intended for Malaysian civil litigation but can be adapted by changing the placeholders. Use the Universal Litigator Control Block first where source discipline, adversarial review and authority verification matter.

Prompt

Draft a Statement of Claim for `[PLAINTIFF]` against `[DEFENDANT]` in `[COURT / FORUM]`, based on `[MATERIALS]`.

Before the draft, provide a short pleading readiness note identifying missing essential facts, doubtful allegations and limitation or jurisdiction concerns. Unless an essential choice makes drafting impossible, proceed using clearly marked placeholders.

In the pleading:

- plead material facts, not evidence or submissions;
- identify parties, capacities and jurisdiction;
- plead the relevant relationship, transaction or duty chronologically;
- plead each breach or wrong with necessary particulars;
- plead causation, loss and damage with available particulars;
- plead fraud, misrepresentation, breach of trust, illegality or other particularised matters only where properly supported;
- distinguish primary, alternative and consequential claims;
- plead interest and costs on the proper legal basis;
- frame relief precisely and consistently with the pleaded causes of action.

Do not plead documents “for their full terms and effect” as a substitute for material facts. Do not include evidence, rhetoric or unverified legal conclusions. After the draft, provide a compliance and vulnerability checklist.