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The situation
Every appeal opens with a synopsis and a list of dates and events. It is a chronology of the matter, each entry carrying the page of the paperbook where that event is evidenced, and it is how the bench orients itself before counsel says a word.
Building it means reading the whole record in order and noting what happened when. In a matter with four years of pleadings, interim applications and orders, that is the single largest piece of work in preparing the appeal, and it is usually done by whoever knows the file least.
Why it is hard
A date in a document is not always the date of the event
Orders are signed, pronounced, uploaded and received on different days. Which one belongs in the chronology depends on what the entry is for, and getting it wrong invites a question from the bench.
Every entry has to link to a page
An unsupported chronology is worse than none. The link is to a page in this paperbook, which means the chronology cannot be finalised before the pagination is.
The synopsis is argument, the dates are not
The chronology must be neutral and complete. The synopsis is advocacy, written by the advocate. Running them together is how a list of dates stops being trusted.
How we approach it
Kanoon IQ Litigator reads the record and extracts the events with their dates, resolving each one to the document and page it is evidenced by. Because the bundle is paginated by the same engine, every entry links to its page in this paperbook rather than to a document number nobody can find.
The chronology comes back as a working draft for the advocate to cut, merge and correct. Dates that appear in more than one form across the record, or events the record implies but does not evidence, are flagged rather than resolved quietly.
What changes
- The chronology extracted from the record, each entry linked to its page
- Conflicting dates surfaced instead of silently resolved
- Entries regenerate against the pagination when the bundle changes
- The synopsis stays the advocate's; only the extraction is automated
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