Amendment of Pleadings

Structured workflow for amendment of pleadings: 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

Review the proposed amendments to `[PLEADING]`.

Explain:

- what is being added, removed or reformulated;
- why the amendment is required;
- when the relevant facts became known;
- whether it introduces a new cause of action, defence or party;
- limitation implications;
- prejudice not compensable by costs;
- effect on discovery, evidence and trial dates;
- whether consequential amendments are required.

Produce a clean draft, a marked-up comparison, proposed orders, supporting affidavit outline and submissions outline.