Chronology Builder Andrew Bird
Builds a litigation chronology from the disclosure bundle itself, every entry...
Install
npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill chronology-builder-andrew-bird -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills919
- Category
- Engineering
- Updated
- 16d ago
- License
- See repository
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 2,185 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Builds a litigation chronology from the disclosure bundle itself, every entry attributed to its source document, behind a CPR 31.22 implied-undertaking check, because documents disclosed in English proceedings may only be used for those proceedings. Adds a privilege screen and case-theory significance tagging, so the output is court-facing work product, not a loose timeline. Use when the user asks to build a chronology or timeline from a disclosure bundle, a matter file, or witness statements, or says 'build the chron', 'what happened when', or needs a Statement of Facts ready timeline.
/chronology
- Run the CPR 31.22 implied-undertaking check before extracting from disclosed documents.
- Identify sources: user-provided paths, matter folder, declared sources.
- Extract dated events, de-duplicate against sources, tag significance per case theory.
- Output a working chronology by default; Statement-of-Facts or witness-specific variants on request.
Chronology, UK civil litigation
CPR 31.22 implied-undertaking check
The host workspace enforces the hard gate (matter-slug match against the proceedings reference, privilege posture). If this skill is running, that gate has already passed, this check does not replace it. The skill still performs its own check below and refuses or flags if misuse is indicated; it is not the enforcement.
Before building from any document obtained through standard or extended disclosure in English / Welsh proceedings, confirm the use is permitted:
CPR 31.22(1): A party to whom a document has been disclosed may use the document only for the purpose of the proceedings in which it is disclosed, except where: (a) the document has been read to or by the court, or referred to, at a hearing held in public; (b) the court gives permission; or (c) the party who disclosed the document and the person to whom the document belongs agree.
Misuse of disclosed documents (using them for a different matter, a different claim, a commercial purpose, or external publication) is a contempt of court.
Confirm before extracting from any source that may have come through disclosure:
- Whether the documents are from disclosure in current proceedings (infer from source path or matter context; surface for confirmation if not evident).
- Whether the chronology is being built for use in those same proceedings (default assumption: yes, same matter slug, same proceedings).
