Reference no: EM133262858

Assignment:

State the Facts of the case

1. Case refers to an actual, potential, or hypothetical dispute, problem or controversy which raises a question of whether one or more ethical principles were violated.

2. The beginnings of material or key facts may be unearthed by the question - "what extra facts might be relevant to the final outcome of this problem/dispute"? The sources of key facts could be events, dates, people, documents and statutes. It may be based on the queries - What? When? Where? Why? Who? How?

3. The "facts" of the case describe what happened to cause the dispute or problem. The facts may describe behavior, who or what engaged in that behavior, the reasons for the behavior, when and where the behavior occurred, why or the circumstances at the time the behavior occurred, who or what was affected, how they were affected, and so on.

4. In a case there will be events, issues, a cast of characters, but the key to every case is its facts - cases are built on facts.

5. Some facts are more important than others, and the most important facts are the key facts-those facts upon which the outcome of the case depends. Key facts are those facts necessary to prove or disprove a claim. A key fact is so essential that if it were changed, the outcome of the case would be different.

6. A material or key fact may be described as a fact which is of vital importance to a line of deductive reasoning in order to solve a problem or to give helpful advice on a range of options in response to a particular issue or social problem. Pinpoint the determinative facts of the case, i.e. those that make a difference in the outcome. Your goal here is to be able to tell the story of the case without missing any pertinent information but also not including to many extraneous facts either.