How do I use it?
Judicial affidavits
The witness testimony an affidavit cross-examination is confined to — enter your real one, or draft one from the record and accept it after reading it.
What the affidavit is in the room
In a forum that takes direct testimony by judicial affidavit, the affidavit is the direct testimony. A cross-examination is confined to it, the witness answers from it, and an objection that a question goes beyond the scope is judged against it — paragraph by numbered paragraph, the way counsel refers to it aloud.
So a case headed for an affidavit cross-examination needs one. If it has none, the session will still start — but the room will tell you, plainly, that the witness has no sworn testimony to be examined on.
Two ways to get one, and they are not equal
Enter the affidavit you actually have. The strongest rehearsal there is, because the witness is examined on exactly what they swore to. Paste it in, separating paragraphs with a blank line — the numbering follows the order you enter, and the numbering matters, because it is what a scope objection turns on. Your own document needs no further step: you have it and have read it.
Draft one from the case record. For practice when you do not have the real document. LexGrit assembles an affidavit from what the case already contains — and only from that. It will not invent an event, a date, a figure, or what anyone knew: where the record is silent, the affidavit is silent, and a case with too thin a record is refused with a suggestion to add facts or enter the real document instead.
The acceptance gate
A drafted affidavit is not usable until you have read it and accepted it. Its paragraphs are shown in full above the accept button, and the button says what it means: I have read it — examine me on this.
The gate exists because a drafted affidavit was written by a model, and once accepted it becomes the testimony everything downstream relies on — the witness defends it, the bench rules on it, your coverage is scored against it. An unread paragraph you accepted is a case that does not exist, rehearsed as if it did.
Which affidavit the room uses
A case can hold several affidavits — different witnesses, different drafts. Exactly one reaches a session: the most recently accepted one, and the panel marks it — the witness testifies from this. Retire an affidavit you no longer want in play; it leaves the room but stays on the record, because past sessions were examined on it.