Why do you say case and not matter?

Because it is the word people actually use out loud. We keep the site in the words a clerk would use rather than the words software companies prefer.

What does wired mean exactly?

That the court's cause list is read today, for your firm, and has been checked. A court we could add is not described as wired.

Is a case the same as a court case?

Not always. Advice and pre-filing work open as a case in Tulip with no hearing on it, and hearings attach later if the matter is filed.

Glossary

Plain meanings for the words used across this site. Some are ordinary court practice that anybody in an Indian law firm already knows, and some are words we use in a particular way. They are written down here so nothing on the site depends on guessing.

What it is

A short list of what the words on this site mean.

What it is not

It is not a legal dictionary and it is not advice.

Words from court practice

Cause list — the court's published list of what it will hear on a given day, usually put out the evening before.
Item number — where a case sits on the day's list. Item 14 is the fourteenth matter on that board.
Bench — the judge or judges hearing a matter, and by extension the courtroom. A High Court publishes a separate list for each bench.
Case number record — the unique identifier a court's national system gives an indexed case. Not every forum issues one.
Order — what the court recorded on a given date.
Register — the handwritten record a law firm keeps of what happened on each date. Often the only complete version.

Words we use in a particular way

Case — the unit everything attaches to in Tulip: client, hearings, files, drafts, messages, and billing.
Firm Manager — the product. The part you open in the morning.
Attaches to a case — held with the case rather than in a separate app.
Wired — a court whose cause list we actually read today, as opposed to one we could add.
Your own database — one database holding your law firm's record and no other firm's.
Full export — the whole record, in a form you can read without Tulip.

Questions

Why do you say case and not matter?: Because it is the word people actually use out loud. We keep the site in the words a clerk would use rather than the words software companies prefer.
What does wired mean exactly?: That the court's cause list is read today, for your firm, and has been checked. A court we could add is not described as wired.
Is a case the same as a court case?: Not always. Advice and pre-filing work open as a case in Tulip with no hearing on it, and hearings attach later if the matter is filed.