Litigation is a legal feature which allows legal implementations to create court proceedings against a legal matter. The proceedings are their own work type and will have a set of key dates associated with them that illustrate the associated court timetables e.g. when certain documents need to be configured. Proceedings and the related key dates need to be configured in the work type modeller.
The litigation global feature allows litigation to be enabled on relevant work types and proceedings to be configured in relation to jurisdictions, court restrictions and value restrictions.
Feature Configuration
Access this global feature at Launchpad > Admin > Features > Global Features. Search for litigation.
Sub-features Configuration
Litigation Proceeding Type
The litigation proceeding type configuration will list out all proceedings that have been configured within the system. You are then able to specify which of these proceeding types are enabled. For each proceeding you are then able to provide detailed configuration around courts, value restrictions etc.
| Feature Element | Description |
|---|---|
| Direction | Indicate whether the proceeding is a 'Raise & Serve' (proceeding initiated by 'us') or Respond and Defend |
| Jurisdiction Restrictions | Indicates the jurisdictions to which this proceeding type will apply |
| Court Restrictions |
Specify which courts are able to handle this litigation type. Courts can be added in the operational data store - they should have party type of Court added. |
| Restrict Type by Value | Is this type only available for matters of certain values |
| Value Account | On which account should the value decision be made |
| Value Range | What is the range of the value restriction |
| Case Litigated when reaching | Configure at which phase of the proceeding the case would be considered litigated |
| Un-set litigated when reaching | When the proceeding reaches a certain phase set the matter to unlitigated |
Litigation Matter Type Configuration
The litigation matter type configuration allows you to specify which of your work types should have litigation enabled. In addition the proceedings type elements allows you to specify which proceeding types are applicable to your work types. Phase restrictions further allows you to specify that the proceedings menu will only be enabled at certain phases on the matter.
