Overview
The chronology frames the pleadings, the witness statements, the expert instructions and the skeleton argument. The Attorney-Editable Chronology builds it from the whole record, places each event on the date it occurred with the documents that evidence it, and identifies where the parties’ documents put the same event on different dates.
It is kept current as disclosure arrives, so the team works from one chronology that reflects the record as it stands, and narrows it by issue or by party when a focused chronology is needed.
Where it is used
Pleadings
The factual narrative of the claim or defence, with the documents for each allegation identified.
Limitation and notice
The dates on which limitation, notice and contractual time bars turn, with any dispute over them identified early.
Witness statements
A witness’s account checked against the documented sequence of events before the statement is finalised.
Skeleton arguments
A chronology for the court, narrowed to the issues before it.
In practice
The chronology of the matter shown, in date order.
The chronology
The first five entries of 22.
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Where the parties’ documents disagree, the entry sets out both accounts.
One entry, opened
High · Date conflict · Prime Contract cl. 1.3
15 Dec 2021 · the Architect
“The date of Substantial Completion of the entire Work is hereby established as 15 December 2021…”
against
14 Feb 2022 · the Owner
“Our client does not accept that Substantial Completion was achieved on 15 December 2021… Substantial Completion was achieved on 14 February 2022…”
The Architect’s certificate and the Owner’s notice of claim place substantial completion 61 days apart.
A disputed date appears wherever it matters: in the chronology, as a finding in the discrepancy report, and on the entity map between the parties who dispute it.
One record, three views
Certificate of Substantial Completion
the Architect · asserts 15 Dec 2021
Notice of Claim
the Owner · asserts 14 Feb 2022
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How it works
Events are dated by what the documents say happened, not by when the documents were written, and an event described in several documents appears once, with each of them behind it. A date the record does not give is not supplied. Counsel confirms, amends or rejects entries, and those decisions are kept as the chronology grows.