Activity Type

Mock Trial: Group Activity

Objective

This objective of this assignment is to provide an opportunity for students to apply common law (torts) in a trial like situation. Students will learn the procedure involved in a trial- like collecting evidence, preparing arguments. This assignment will be an application of your learning in Unit 1- 6.

The assignment has three parts.

Mock Simulation Situation Case

Instructors can choose any case from the textbook. Some case samples have been provided in professor resources.

Student Teams

In each simulation, two participants will play the role of the plaintiff and defendant. Two or more participants will play the roles of the witnesses from the plaintiff's side, and two or more form the defendant's side. One participant will play the role of the plaintiff's lawyer, and one will play the role of the defendant's lawyer. One other participant will serve as the judge. Alternatively, if there are more students than there are roles, more than one judges can be appointed. A maximum number of four judges are recommended. If there are some extra students, they can be made observers and their job will be to observe and report the findings to the class once the trial is over.

Part 3: Reflection

Objective

Students will submit a reflectionbased on the ORID model. The objective of the reflection will be to comment on their learnings, experiences and mistakes in the mock trail.

Instructions

Following the trial students will write a reflective report based on the following questions.

1. The Planning Stage: Were you able to plan well? What were your strengths? What were the hurdles? What could you do better in the future?
2. The Trial Stage: Did you feel well prepared sitting against your opponent team? How did you feel emotionally? Were you able to put your point across? How was communication between the teams?
3. The Decision: Was it favorable? Were you able to get justice for your client? /Were you able to take a decision based on all the evidence provided to you?
4. Did you miss on any key legal issues? What will you do next time?
5. Key takeaways

While the plaintiff and defendant team will reflect upon the issue of preparedness and justice for their client, the judges will reflect upon their preparedness and award. The observers will discuss what the teams should have done and what they did. Further, the observers will discuss their learnings and key takeaways.

The Reflection will follow the ORID Model of reflection on all your learning and takeaways from the Mock Trial Experience. Read further to understand what is the "ORID" model of writing.

The purpose of this analysis is to provide you with the opportunity to critically examineyour learnings and experience from the arbitration simulation. The reflection should follow the ORID model of reflection. It needs to have these four headers: Objective, Reflective,Interpretive, and Decisional.

In other words, your analysis should include four levels that will encourage critical thinking and offer a guide to processing your experience. Try to thoroughly answer the questions and provide examples where needed.

A. Objective

This part of your analysis will include descriptions of your real experience: What were your learning objectives? What was your goal and what were the roadblocks? What resources did you have?

This part will be about information- key facts etc. and will be like the topic/thesis statement for your reflection

B. Reflective

This part of your analysis will focus on how you felt or interpreted your experience. Please provide a context for these feelings by providing examples from your experience. How did you feel at the beginning of your experience? Enlightened? Confused? Amazed? Stressed? Uncertain? What was the most enjoyable/frustrating part of the experience? What went well, what did not? Mistakes and reflections and those mistakes?

C. Interpretive

This part of your analysis will focus on what you learned from your experience. What did you learn? Why? Why not? What did you think about it? Did your experience make you change the way you thought about the particular issue? What worked, what didn't? Why was your experience important?

D. Decisional

This part of your analysis will explore how you will incorporate your new knowledge into your current state of mind. What decisions have you made based on your experience? Have you changed any of your beliefs, opinions, and truths? How are you going to use this new knowledge in the future?

Your Reflection will range from 5 pages to 8 pages- written with standard APA formatting - Times New Roman, 12, double.

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Evaluation Rubric

	Unsatisfactory/Beginning (40%)	Developing (60%)	Accomplished (80%)	Exemplary (100%)
ORID Model The four questions of the ORID model. (25%)	The four questions of the focused conversation ORID model is NOT addressed.	The writers apply the four questions of the focused conversation ORID model.	The writers apply the four questions of the focused conversation ORID model.	The writers apply the four questions of the focused conversation ORID model.
Responses Development of responses. (25%)	The responses are undeveloped and might NOT reflect how these concepts will impact current or future practice	The responses are adequate and might NOT reflect how these concepts will impact current or future practice.	These responses are thoughtful and reflect how these concepts will impact current or future practice.	These responses are comprehensive, thoughtful and reflect how these concepts will impact current or future practice.
Evidence Relevant evidence to support analysis/arguments (25%)	Entry is not evidence-based.	Entry may or may not be evidence based	Entry may or may not be evidence based.	Entry is evidence-based
Writing Grammar, spelling, and Language (25%)	Significant and many grammar, spelling and punctuation errors are throughout.	Writing skills are below the expected level as reflected in many grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors.	Writing contains minor grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors.	Writing is free of grammatical, spelling and punctuation errors.