Legal teams

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Appellant
Applicant
Claimant
Defendant
Respondent

A legal team is a group of CMS users who are allowed to work on a case under the responsibility of the authorised representative of a party – for example, other representatives, paralegals, and specialists from other firms. All team members can view documents and perform tasks for stand-alone, main, and related proceedings.

Each case* will have a team, even if it consists of only one person. When a case is started, the CMS will automatically generate a team which can be modified as necessary. Defendants and respondents will create and manage their own teams.

Legal teams information is in the CMS main menu under Representation > Legal teams:

  • My legal teams
  • Guidance on legal teams

 

  • *Applications related to opt-outs are an exception and do not have teams
  • Any cases which were created before legal teams were available in the CMS will have teams generated automatically in retrospect
  • The team members other than the representative do not appear under the Personal Details tab of a case, and are not visible to anyone outside the team
  • The legal teams feature is still being developed. Future CMS releases will add functionality, such as the ability to manage comms within a team (eg which team members receive emails)
  • There are no Rules of Procedure relating to legal teams