Case File Summarisation and Chronology

• Litigation Partner
• Senior Associate (Disputes)
• Head of Litigation (In-House)
• Advocate-on-Record

A commercial suit, arbitration or writ petition can arrive with thousands of pages: plaint, written statement, replication, affidavits of evidence, exhibits, correspondence and years of interim orders, often scanned, sometimes in Hindi, with handwritten order sheets from the district court. Before any strategy work, someone has to read it all and build the chronology.

We build a case-file assistant that ingests the paper book or matter folder, runs OCR in English and Hindi, classifies each document and indexes it by type, date and filing party. It extracts dated events, amounts, parties and witnesses and builds a list of dates and events in which every entry cites the document and page. Issue-wise summaries are drafted from the pleadings and evidence, and possible contradictions are listed for counsel, such as a date in the plaint that differs from an exhibit. Associates verify entries against the source in one click, and the chronology updates when new documents are added.

• OCR for English and Hindi, including handwritten order sheets, with low-confidence text marked
• Document index by type, date, filing party and exhibit number
• List of dates and events with a document and page citation for every entry
• Party, witness and entity index across the file
• Issue-wise summaries drawn from the pleadings and evidence
• Contradiction list across pleadings, affidavits and exhibits for counsel to assess

1. 01Load the fileThe paper book, matter folder or court-downloaded documents are uploaded for the matter.
2. 02OCR and classifyEach document is read and classified as plaint, reply, affidavit, exhibit, order and so on.
3. 03Extract events and entitiesDates, events, amounts, parties and witnesses are extracted with page references.
4. 04Build the chronologyEvents are ordered into a list of dates and events, and conflicting dates are flagged.
5. 05Associate verificationAn associate checks flagged entries, and a sample of the others, against the source pages.
6. 06Export and updateThe verified chronology, index and summaries are exported to Word and refreshed as new filings arrive.

1. Ingestion
   • Matter folder and DMS connector
   • Import of court downloads
   • Paper book page numbering
2. Document processing
   • OCR for English and Devanagari
   • Classifier for pleadings, affidavits, exhibits and orders
   • Page-level text store
3. Extraction and analysis
   • Event, date and amount extractor
   • Party and witness resolver
   • Contradiction detector
4. Review
   • Verification screen with source page view
   • Associate edits and notes
5. Output
   • List of dates and events in Word
   • Document index and issue summaries
   • Version history as the file grows

Associates verify every flagged entry, and a sample of the rest, before the chronology is used, and counsel decide what any contradiction means for the case. Summaries are working notes for lawyers, not opinions.

• Document management system
• Matter or practice management software
• Microsoft Word for exports
• Court e-filing downloads
• Secure cloud storage per matter

• Every chronology entry cites a document and page
• Low-confidence OCR text visibly marked
• Contradictions presented as questions for counsel, not conclusions
• Matter-level access controls with no cross-matter retrieval
• Documents not used to train models

• Case files contain personal and sometimes sensitive data of parties and witnesses; designed to support DPDP Act 2023 safeguards.
• Internal notes and drafts are stored separately from the evidence index to help protect privileged work.

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