Bracton
Four more screens, and what each one does without being asked.
The platform page carries the argument and the two screens that make it. These are the other four.
- The time nobody would have recorded, drafted for a fee earner to accept or reject.
- A save refused where the accounts rules would be breached, with the rule named on the screen.
- The forms that arise on this kind of file, populated from the matter.
- Who is allowed to do what, on one page, so a supervisor reads the firm's position.
The rest of the platform
The time nobody would have recorded
A call taken on another fee earner's file, a supervision review before a claim is issued, a beneficiary rung back. None of it prompts a time entry, and by the morning it is gone.
Bracton watches each file and drafts the entry with a narrative and a duration. Nothing posts to a file, a bill or a ledger until a fee earner accepts it.
Illustrative. Working software, on invented figures and names.
The breach that names its rule
Office and client sit in separate columns with a running balance on each, so anyone reading the file sees whose money is where.
Where a posting would leave client money in the office account, or take the client account into deficit, the file refuses to save and names the rule that stopped it. A breach caught at the keystroke never reaches the accountant's report.
Illustrative. Working software, on an invented breach and file.
The forms this file offers
A library of eighty one published forms of the court, the tribunals, HM Land Registry, HM Revenue and Customs and the Office of the Public Guardian stands behind every matter, and a file offers the ones that arise on its plan and the roads laid on it, each at the publisher's own page. Two of them, the N1 claim form and the N244 application notice, fill themselves from the record with the statement of truth left for a person's hand.
Forms are filled one at a time
The library names every form and where it arises. Filling from the record is added one form at a time and named here as it arrives. Nothing is filed by the software, and a weekly pass over the publishers' pages says when an edition has changed.
Choosing a form opens the draft populated from the file, with the parties styled from the capacity recorded against them. What the file cannot know is asked first, and the draft does not assemble until every answer is in.
Illustrative. The design of record, from the working prototype, on an invented file.
Who is allowed to do what
Supervision falls apart when the rules about who can approve a payment, transfer client money or write off time live in somebody's head. The screen answers them by running the rules that enforce them rather than by describing them.
Where a role does not hold an action, the request routes to somebody who does and the reason is recorded. Access to a file outside a department is granted or refused, and the trail survives everyone involved leaving.
Illustrative. The design of record, from the working prototype, on invented people.
How the permissions are enforced is set out on the security page.
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