For litigation firms
Software that knows the court gives you a mention, not a hearing
Most systems ask for a hearing date the moment a suit is filed. Kenyan courts do not work that way, and an advocate meets the mismatch on the first file they open.
The problem
What happens when the software does not know this work
A single "hearing date" field
You get a mention, then directions, then often three more mentions before a hearing exists at all. Forcing that into one field means the diary is wrong from the first entry.
Limitation dates kept in somebody’s head
The Limitation of Actions Act does not care that the advocate who knew was on leave. A missed limitation is the claim gone and the firm exposed.
Courts typed as free text
"Milimani Commercial", "Milimani Comm", "MCC" and "Milimani" become four courts, and no report about your court workload is ever right again.
No record of what was served, or when
Service is the thing you will be asked to prove, usually months later and usually at short notice.
What we built
Litigation in JurisFlow
- Mention-first tracks
- A Mentions and Directions stage sits after filing on every suit track. Record each mention, what the court directed, and the date it gave you. The next date is a fact on the file rather than a note in a diary.
- Court diary
- Every date across every advocate in one view, by day, week or list, and exportable to the calendar the firm already uses.
- Limitation deadlines
- Recorded per matter and surfaced before they matter, not on the day.
- Courts configured once, firm-wide
- A list the firm maintains, chosen from a picker. One spelling, one court, and reports that add up.
- Sixteen sub-types
- Civil suit, judicial review, employment, children and family, succession, personal injury, criminal, appeals and applications, each with its own stages rather than one generic lifecycle.
- Applications as files in their own right
- An application inside a suit is tracked separately, because it has its own dates, its own outcome and often its own fee note.
The short version
These are fields, not free text
You can tell whether software was written for your jurisdiction by whether it has words for the things you do. Every one of these is somewhere in the system, on a file, with a date against it.
- Mention
- Directions
- Limitation of Actions Act, Cap. 22
- Judicial review
- Notice of motion
- Milimani Commercial
- Employment and Labour Relations Court
- Environment and Land Court
- Succession cause
- Certificate of service
Open a litigation file and see
The demonstration is a fictional firm with real-looking files in every department. Nothing in it is a client, and anything you add clears after 72 hours, so press anything.