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Never miss a court date or a legal deadline again.
Legal & Compliance manages court cases, the advocates who handle them, legal notices and right-to-information requests. Every deadline is counted automatically, and the person who raises an advocate's bill is never the one who approves it.
Civil suit, High Court
A case moves from filing to closure, and each step starts its own deadline.
The clocks run from the day each event happens, so no one has to remember a date to start one.
Filed
The limitation period starts counting.
Advocate assigned
Only an empanelled, non‑debarred advocate.
Hearings
Each hearing and its outcome is recorded.
Decision
The appeal window opens at once if the result is unfavourable.
Appeal and execution
Compliance with any order has its own deadline.
Closed
The advocate's bill is raised, approved and posted.
Every legal matter, from the case register to the last RTI reply.
Each block below covers one part of the module. Together they keep every date and every decision in one record.
Every case has its own register entry, its hearings and its deadlines.
A case is registered with its court, bench, case type and parties, under an internal reference. Hearings are scheduled and their outcomes recorded, and interim orders and their compliance dates are kept with the case.
- A case register with court, bench, case type, parties and an internal reference number.
- The case lifecycle from filing to closure, including appeal, execution and remand.
- A hearing calendar with outcomes, adjournments and orders.
- Legal notices, sent and received, with reply deadlines.
Case, High Court, Civil Suit 214
Advocate panel
Only empanelled advocates can take a brief, and a debarred advocate loses every brief at once.
Advocates are applied for, approved, renewed, suspended or debarred. An advocate who is not on the approved panel cannot be assigned, and debarring one withdraws all their briefs and blocks new ones.
- Advocate empanelment: apply, approve, renew, suspend or debar.
- Debarring an advocate withdraws all their briefs at once and blocks new ones.
Every hearing, adjournment and order is on the calendar, with the next date set.
Hearings are scheduled on a calendar, and each outcome is recorded as heard, adjourned or reserved. A red chip shows when a deadline is close, and the next hearing date follows from the outcome.
- A hearing calendar with outcomes, adjournments and orders.
- Interim orders recorded, with a compliance deadline where an order must be obeyed.
Hearings this week
Deadline clocks, Case 214
Deadlines are counted for you, and a warning comes before any of them is missed.
Each case carries several clocks at once: the limitation period, the appeal window, the reply to a notice, compliance with an order and an advocate's empanelment. Warnings go out before a deadline is breached, and legal opinions are kept with the case they belong to.
- Deadline clocks, several per case: limitation period, appeal window, reply to notice, compliance with orders, and advocate empanelment validity.
- Automatic warnings before a deadline is breached.
- Legal opinions from advisors.
- Settlement and counsel-briefing approvals.
The person who raises an advocate's bill cannot be the one who approves it.
Fee bills are calculated from the rate card, with GST and the cap per case applied. One person raises the bill and a different person approves it, and only then is it paid and posted to Finance & Accounts.
- Rate cards: fees for effective and non-effective hearings, clerkage, GST and a cap per case.
- Advocate bills: one person raises, another approves, and then payment is made.
- Bills and payments posted to Finance & Accounts automatically.
Advocate bill, Case 214
RTI request, received 2 October
Every right-to-information request is logged with its deadline from the day it arrives.
The information officer answers the request, transfers it to another public authority, or asks a third party for their view. Fees, letters and reports come from templates, and every request keeps its deadline in view.
- Request register with a deadline for each request.
- Transfer to another public authority.
- Third-party notices and replies.
- RTI fees, and letters generated from templates.
If the applicant is unhappy, the appeal goes to a different person, and the penalty is on record.
A first appeal is heard by a different authority from the one that answered, and a final appeal follows where the law allows. A penalty is recorded where one is imposed.
- First appeal and final appeal, each heard by a different authority.
- Penalty records, where the law allows a penalty.
- MIS reports and statutory returns.
First appeal, RTI 88
Litigation dashboard
The registrar sees open cases, deadlines and advocate spend on one dashboard.
The litigation dashboard shows open cases, hearings in the week, deadlines due and advocate spend. The RTI dashboard shows requests received, requests answered on time and appeals.
- A litigation dashboard: open cases, hearings this week, deadlines due, advocate spend.
- An RTI dashboard: requests received, answered on time, appeals.
Court hierarchy and case types are settings, so the same module works in other countries.
The court hierarchy, court tiers and case types are settings. India comes ready, and other countries follow the same pattern without new programming, including their own freedom-of-information laws.
- Freedom-of-information laws in other countries use the same RTI engine.
Court settings
What sets the module apart from a case diary.
Each of these is part of the module itself.
- Deadlines that never slip quietly. Every legal clock is tracked and warned about in advance.
- Separation of duties. The person who raises a bill cannot approve it, and RTI officers and appellate authorities are kept apart.
- Connected to the accounts. Legal spend reaches the books without being keyed in again.
- Ready for India, and for other countries.
Legal & Compliance is connected to the modules around it.
Legal spend is paid from the same books, and the people involved come from the same staff records.
Built for the people who run the cases, the panel, the bills and the RTI cell.
Each role sees the part of the module that belongs to it.
The legal cell and legal officers
File cases, track hearings and handle notices.
You want no date missed.
Legal advisors
Give legal opinions on cases.
You want your opinion kept with the case.
The empanelment team
Approve and manage the panel of advocates.
You want only approved advocates on a brief.
Bill processing and approval staff
Handle advocates' fee bills, one person raising and another approving.
You want every bill checked by a second person.
The Public Information Officer
Answers right-to-information requests.
You want each request answered before its deadline.
Appellate authorities
Hear appeals against RTI decisions.
You want appeals heard by someone who did not answer the request.
The registrar or management
Oversight, reports and the dashboard.
You want the whole legal position on one screen.
Questions people ask about Legal & Compliance.
What does the Legal & Compliance module do?
It manages court cases from filing to closure, the advocates who handle them and their fee bills, legal notices and opinions, and right-to-information requests and appeals. Every legal deadline is counted and warned about in advance.
How are deadlines tracked?
Each case has several deadline clocks: the limitation period, the appeal window, the reply to a notice, compliance with an order, and the validity of an advocate's empanelment. Warnings are sent before a deadline is breached.
Who can assign an advocate to a case?
Only advocates on the approved panel who are not debarred can be assigned. Debarring an advocate withdraws all their briefs at once and blocks new ones.
Who approves an advocate's fee bill?
A different person from the one who raised it. Bills are calculated from the rate card, approved separately, and then posted to Finance & Accounts.
How are RTI requests handled?
Each request is logged with its legal deadline. The information officer answers, transfers it to another authority, or asks a third party for their view. A first appeal and a final appeal are handled by separate people.
Does it work outside India?
Yes. The court hierarchy, court tiers and case types are settings, so other countries are set up without new programming, and freedom-of-information laws in other countries use the same RTI engine.