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Each Item in a Case can appear in different contexts through the life of the Case with different numbers.
For example it may at various stages have:
| • | a draft List Number in a draft disclosure list |
| • | a List Number in a disclosure list |
| • | a number in a Witness Statement index |
| • | a number in a list of documents being sent to Counsel |
| • | a number in a draft Trial Bundle (or rather a series of page numbers if it is a multi-page document) |
| • | a 'final' number in a Trial Bundle |
| • | different numbers in different Trial Issue Bundles |
Openlaw handles all these situations.
Openlaw also has a single, unique number of its own which is given to each Item held in a Case database. That is the Item Number. It is fixed and cannot (easily) be changed.
The Item number is totally arbitrary and has no significance. Usually, the first Item added to a Case is given the number 1, the next 2, etc.
To reproduce the order in which Items were added to a Case, look at them in Item Number order (the default sort order for search results).
Bundle Numbers
You can number the Items in any Bundle, with Bundle Numbers. These numbers are stored with the Bundle, not with the Item They are lost if the Bundle is deleted.
Confusion can arise when the same Item has different numbers in different lists, printed from different Bundles. Bundle Numbering enables you to number the Items in a Bundle, sequentially, irrespective of any other numbers the Items may have in different bundles.
Item 64 may be the first Item in Bundle 2 (and numbered 1), the 3rd Item in Bundle 6 (and numbered 3) etc.
Item 64 may also have a List Number - the number it was given on a Disclosure List - of 104.