We built case management the way everyone builds case management. You created a client, then a case under that client, then typed in the hearing dates as they came. It worked, in the sense that the software did what it said.

Almost nobody kept it current. Keeping it current was a second job, and it was a job that paid you nothing until the day you needed it, by which point it was already out of date. We watched that happen for long enough to accept it was not a discipline problem. It was the design.

So we stopped adding to it, and built something that fills itself in.

Your court diary

The diary is built from the cause lists and case-update emails your registry already sends you. Import a cause list PDF and it reads the whole thing. Forward a case-update email and it files the new date against the right matter.

A matter keeps one entry, and that entry moves as the matter is adjourned. That is deliberate. Your diary answers what is listed and when, which is the question you actually ask, rather than accumulating a row for every date a case was ever called.

You can still type an entry by hand. Nothing about the diary requires the registry to cooperate.

It updates without you

Once we know a matter's CNR, we check it for you. Cases you are on refresh overnight, so the diary you open in the morning already reflects yesterday's orders.

At eight in the morning you get one email: what is listed today, and what moved since yesterday. If nothing moved, it says so. It is meant to be the thing you read in the car, not another inbox to manage.

Bills come off the diary

Raise a bill straight from a listing and the court, the case number and the cause title come across with it. Add your charges, set the tax treatment, download it as a document and send it.

Bills are numbered in your own series. If your chamber has always used LDA/2026-27/007, keep using it. We increment whatever you last used.

What this means for clients and cases

The old clients and cases module is read-only from now on. You cannot create or edit there any more.

Nothing has been deleted, and nothing will be. You can still open every record, download it, and remove it if you want to. There is no automatic migration, because a migration would guess at which of your old records still matter, and we would rather you decided that.

If you have been keeping cases up to date by hand, that work is safe. It is just not where we are building any more.

Where it still falls short

The diary is marked Beta because it is. Court coverage is uneven, and some registries publish in formats we have not taught it to read yet. When it cannot read something it tells you rather than guessing.

If it gets a listing wrong, tell us which court and which day. That is the fastest way to make it better for everyone in that court.