Confirm, extend and complete deadlines

Where deadlines come from

• A rule suggested it, when something that starts time running was recorded on the matter, such as service of a writ or a judgment.
• A limitation rule suggested it, from the day a claim accrued.
• Somebody wrote it down by hand. A deadline written by hand is born confirmed, because the person writing it is the person deciding it.

Review suggestions

1. Open Deadlines, then Suggestions.
2. For each, check the date against its rule and trigger. Confirm it as computed, edit it and then confirm, or dismiss it with a reason.
3. Select several to confirm them together; each is judged on its own.

A confirmed date never moves silently

Once confirmed, a deadline changes only by an extension, which records the old date, the new date, the reason and the authority for it, such as the order granting more time, for good.

A new holiday, a moved court vacation or an edited rule never recomputes a confirmed date. Each produces a review listing the deadlines it may affect, under Deadlines, Reviews, for someone to decide.

Complete it

Complete a deadline with its evidence: a note, or a document filed on the same matter. A deadline not completed by its date is marked missed and escalated at once.

At risk

Deadlines opens on the at-risk view: overdue, due today, due this week, unconfirmed, unacknowledged and needing cover. Each figure opens the register already filtered.

Reassign

Move a deadline to another holder, and both the old and the new holder are told.