Record a judgment

A judgment records what the court decided. Its stage tells where it stands in the appeals chain, and its outcome decides the state of the case.

Before you start

• The case is In Progress or in Appeals, and none of its hearings is still in progress: close them first.
• You need the User: Own Documents level or higher on Cases.

Steps

1. Open the case from Cases/Cases, then Actions › Add Judgment.
2. Choose the Stage: Primitive (first instance), Appeal or Final. Type the Number of the judgment and set its Date.
3. Choose the Outcome: Won, Lost, or Petition for a decision that does not end the case. A Lost judgment also needs its Reason, picked from the list in Cases/Configuration/Lost Reasons.
4. Attach the decree with Attach Judgment Decree (a PDF file).

5. Click Save manually.

What the judgment changes

• A Won or Lost judgment sets the case to Won or Lost, and marks it as having a primitive, appeal or final judgment.
• A lost judgment can open a deadline: when the firm uses these activities, the lawyers get an appeal deadline after a primitive judgment, or a revocation deadline after an appeal judgment, after the number of days set in the settings.
• Lost judgments are listed in the Lost Judgments tab of the case; every judgment of the firm is in Cases/Judgments.

FAQ

Can a hearing carry more than one judgment?

No. A judgment recorded on a hearing is the only one of that hearing.