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The situation
The matter has been running for four years. The record is a drawer of pleadings, annexures, orders, affidavits and correspondence, filed in the order it arrived rather than the order it will be read. The appeal has to go in with a paperbook that an arguing counsel can open at the right page while on their feet.
So somebody sorts it chronologically, decides what goes in and what is left out, numbers every page, builds an index that points at those numbers, cross-checks that each pleading's references to annexures resolve, and exports it in the format the High Court's e-filing portal will accept. That work is mechanical, it is unforgiving, and it is done at the end of the week before it is due.
Why it is hard
Pagination is the thing everything else depends on
The index, the synopsis, the dates chart and counsel's own notes all point at page numbers. Insert one document late and every reference after it is wrong, which is why the bundle is frozen long before it is complete.
Inclusion is a judgement, exclusion is a risk
Leaving a document out of the paperbook is a decision about what the court will see. It needs to be made by the advocate with the record in front of them, not inherited from whatever was in the folder.
The portal has opinions
File size ceilings, bookmark structure, searchable text, naming conventions. A bundle that is substantively perfect and technically non-compliant comes back from the counter.
How we approach it
Kanoon IQ Litigator takes the file as it is, sorts it into the order a paperbook reads in, paginates continuously, and generates the index and bookmarks from the pagination rather than alongside it, so the two cannot drift. Cross-references inside the pleadings are resolved against the new page numbers and any that do not resolve are listed.
Inclusion stays with the advocate. The draft bundle is presented as a working list with every document's place and page shown, documents can be pulled or reordered, and the pagination, index and bookmarks regenerate from the decision rather than needing to be redone by hand.
What changes
- The index is generated from the pagination, so the two cannot disagree
- Broken cross-references between pleadings and annexures are listed before filing
- Export matches the High Court e-filing format, bookmarked and searchable
- The advocate decides what goes in; the mechanical work regenerates around that
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