Case-file dates reach the diary, and you sign the deadline
JUDLEX gathers the dates inside a case file's papers into a diary, and from there you count the deadlines yourself.
A new JUDLEX release, and it lands where a mistake costs most: the dates.
The dates that govern a matter do not sit in a calendar. They sit inside the papers: an order, a notice of service, a contract. To reach one you have to open the document. JUDLEX now gathers them into a diary inside the case file, which is where you keep that matter's documents, and from that diary you count the deadlines.
Every date says which document it came from
JUDLEX reads the dates that appear in a case file's documents and arranges them in a diary. Each one keeps the document it came from, its page and the passage quoted behind it, so you can check the source without leaving the screen.
No date goes in as a bare figure: JUDLEX puts it forward, and you decide which ones belong in the diary.
In that same diary you note what comes round every year with no document to announce it: the quarterly VAT return, the insurance renewal, the review of a contract. Nobody reminds you, and that is exactly why they get forgotten.
Counting a deadline, and who answers for the count
It is worth being exact here, because this is the part most open to misunderstanding. JUDLEX does not calculate deadlines on its own. Nothing looks at a court order and decides by itself that an appeal falls due on the 14th. You open the count, you operate it and you sign it.
You supply four things, and none of them comes ready-marked: the date of service, the period, the jurisdiction the matter belongs to —civil, criminal, administrative— and which calendar of non-working days applies, that is, which days do not count towards the deadline. Leaving them unset is deliberate: August is a working month in criminal proceedings and is not in civil ones, and that difference is measured in weeks.
JUDLEX shows you the whole count: the result and every day that did not count, one by one, with the reason for each. A firm does not need a number; it needs to see why it is that number, and to go through it with someone else watching.
The button does not say "Calculate". It says "I confirm it".
When you confirm it, JUDLEX draws up a sheet with the result, your name and the date, and you print it and file it.
The firm keeps the calendar of non-working days, not the application, and the screen says so in those words: JUDLEX does not verify that the calendar is correct. Whoever signs the deadline answers for it.
The application comes back as you left it
JUDLEX remembers how you left the window, and closing it leaves the application waiting in the system tray. When you come back, you find your workspace just as you left it.
After an update, JUDLEX opens at Your space → What's new, with the release notes for that version in front of you.
The licence warns you before the period ends
Your licence runs in periods. The licence screen tells you when the current one will not renew, and offers the link to judlex.com to reactivate it. That notice is about renewal, and it does not replace what JUDLEX shows you about the rest of the account.
What does not change
Case files and their documents stay on the firm's computer. JUDLEX does not send the diary to any outside service, and a date you have not confirmed goes nowhere.
To start using the diary you need one thing only: load the calendar of non-working days for the territory you work in, and review it every year.