IMPORTANCE OF CASE BRIEFS.

1. Enables one to understand the court’s opinion.

2. Case briefs enable one to understand new case law in a particular area of expertise
3. Enable one to predict the outcome of the case
4. Case brief act as information tools on important facts of the case.
5. Drafting case briefs sharpens the drafter’s skill in critical thinking as well as analytic
skills.
6. Case brief act as a good reference tools.
7. Case briefs assist counsel in coming up with arguments for the case.
8. Enable one to understand how legal principles have been applied. For example the
‘Neighbor Principle’ as applied in the case of Donoghue v Stevenson