DIRECT EXAMINATION SCRIPT – EX PARTE

COUNSEL (APPEARANCE): Good morning/afternoon, Your Honor. Atty. _____

respectfully appearing as counsel for the Plaintiff/Defendant.
COUNSEL: Your Honor, the purposes for the offer of testimony of the witness is
already stated in his/her Judicial Affidavit filed with this Honorable Court
on __________ and we would like to adopt the same.
COUNSEL: Mr./Ms. Witness, do you recall having executed a Judicial Affidavit in
relation to this case?
WITNESS: Yes, sir.
COUNSEL: If I show it to you, would you be able to recognize it?
WITNESS: Yes, sir.
COUNSEL: I’m showing to you a document consisting of ___ pages, is this the
same document you are referring to as your Judicial Affidavit?
WITNESS: Yes, sir.
COUNSEL: In page ___ hereof, there is a signature above the name *name of
witness*, whose signature is this Mr./Ms. Witness?
WITNESS: That is my signature, sir.
COUNSEL: Your Honor, we would like to request that this Judicial Affidavit be
marked as our Exhibit A, and his/her signature be bracketed and sub-
marked as Exhibit A-1.
COUNSEL: Now Mr./Ms. Witness, you attached several documents in your
Judicial Affidavit, marked as Exhibits B to C, I’m showing you once again
your Judicial Affidavit, are these documents attached to the Judicial
Affidavit the same you attached and identified?
WITNESS: Yes, sir
COUNSEL: Your Honor, we would like to manifest that we are adopting the
markings of the documentary exhibits as stated in the Judicial Affidavit.
COUNSEL: Now Mr./Ms. Witness, do you affirm and confirm the truthfulness
and veracity of all the statements you made in your Judicial Affidavit?
WITNESS: Yes, sir.
COUNSEL: And do you affirm that all the documentary exhibits attached to the
Judicial Affidavit are faithful reproductions of the originals?
WITNESS: Yes, sir.
COUNSEL: With that, Your Honor, we move that the Judicial Affidavit be
adopted in lieu of his/her direct testimony.
 FORMAL OFFER OF EXHIBITS
COUNSEL: Plaintiff/Defendant _________, by counsel, and unto this Honorable
Court, formally offers the hereunder pieces of evidence duly identified and
described, with the corresponding purposes:

Exhibits/Documents Purpose/s
Exhibit “A” and “A-1” – To prove that _________.
Judicial Affidavit and
Signature of Mr./Ms. To prove that _________.
*Witness*.
To prove that _________.
Exhibit “B” – To prove that _________.
Exhibit “C” – To prove that _________.

COUNSEL: We move that all documentary exhibits be admitted, and with the
admission of the foregoing documentary exhibits, together with the
testimony of its witness, the Plaintiff/Defendant formally rests its case and
prays that the same be submitted for Decision.