--- name: cases description: "Use when modelling a legal matter as a docket — case lifecycle, parties under roles, append-only evidence, judgments, offences and dispute resolution; the harmony-checked Payload realization of the justice docket." atomPath: cases coordinate: cases · 5/round · b20b0cda contentUuid: "c12acaf1-6695-5462-8586-4e73e4a3865d" diamondUuid: "89c21c2f-788d-8364-b03c-6d0e865cf21a" uuid: "b20b0cda-a2aa-84ea-a000-247d6404302f" horo: 5 bonds: in: - access - accounting - case - disputeresolution - duality - fields - fractal - governinglaw - history - holographic - hooks - horo - identity - jurisdiction - justice - law - merge - proof - shifts - standard - transaction out: - access - accounting - case - disputeresolution - duality - fields - fractal - governinglaw - history - holographic - hooks - horo - identity - jurisdiction - justice - law - merge - proof - shifts - standard - transaction typography: partition: cases bondDegree: 63 neighbors: [] standards: - "EU-2018/1673" - "EU-2018/1725" - "EU-2018/302" - "EU-2018/389-SCA-RTS" - "EU-2018/843" - "EU-2018/957" - "ISA-500" - "ISO-19011" - "ISO-19011:2018 ISA-500 evidence chain-of-custody append-only" - "ISO-19011:2018 audit-trail file·hear·rule·seal" - "UBL-2.1" - "UN-COFOG-03 public-order-and-safety law-courts" bindings: [] neighbors: wikilink: - access - accounting - disputeresolution - duality - fields - fractal - governinglaw - history - holographic - hooks - horo - identity - jurisdiction - justice - law - merge - proof - standard - transaction matrix: - access - accounting - case - disputeresolution - duality - fields - fractal - governinglaw - history - holographic - hooks - horo - identity - jurisdiction - justice - law - merge - proof - shifts - standard - transaction backlinks: - access - accounting - case - disputeresolution - duality - fields - fractal - governinglaw - history - holographic - hooks - horo - identity - jurisdiction - justice - law - merge - proof - shifts - standard - transaction signatures: computationUuid: "6074fdee-7237-8544-9532-1b3a6c0a886f" stages: - stage: path stageUuid: "d0e42baa-d4ec-8283-a35c-b360e4d912c4" - stage: trinity stageUuid: "5a4796d2-61fd-8971-b8e6-c36727f67dd6" - stage: boundary stageUuid: "6c52a385-9268-82cd-b289-7a29f38851f5" - stage: links stageUuid: "1cdd47b2-6d97-8d4c-8f62-b3b76c1eca29" - stage: horo stageUuid: "23c69f84-8b69-885e-bb15-cebe71d1e1aa" - stage: seal stageUuid: "8c77049f-077f-87c7-b8b3-fe24aa55ca29" - stage: uuid stageUuid: "953c91fa-de6d-884f-89cd-236652d69da0" version: 2 --- # Cases The Payload realization of [[justice]]: **adjudication is a balanced state-machine over a docket**, and `cases` is that docket made real. A case is the node; it carries parties under roles (complainant·defendant·prosecutor·judge·counsel·witness) the same polymorphic way a [[transaction]]-bearing collection carries its parties, and it moves through a CLOSED lifecycle on the [[horo]] ring — never an open-ended status set. This is what "solved in harmony" *means* operationally: the status is a position on `1·2·4·8·7·5·9`, validated at build time, and anything off-ring is disharmony the validator rejects. ``` 1 base filed — the matter opens (the docket node is born) 2 share served — the charge is served on the respondent (the two-fold opens) 4 weave discovery — evidence is woven into the chain of custody 8 crest heard — the proceeding: charge·evidence·defence converge (the merge crest) 7 descent adjudicated — the judgment descends (the ruling) 5 round remedied — the sanction/remedy is applied; the matter rounds to balance 9 unity sealed — closed; the precedent the next matter departs from (the new 0) ``` The same two-fold law ([[duality]]): `charge` ↔ `defence` resolve into one `judgment`, exactly as a ledger balances debit ↔ credit ([[accounting]] for society) — and the docket enforces it: a matter **seals only when a judgment exists** (`requireJudgmentToSeal`). The books must balance before the matter closes. Self-similar all the way down ([[fractal]]): a docket holds proceedings, a proceeding holds filings, a filing holds [[fields]] — the same form one scale smaller. Evidence and proceedings are **append-only** ([[identity]] · [[holographic]]): once filed an exhibit is never edited or deleted, only superseded by its `supersedes` content-uuid, so the chain of custody is recoverable from any part ([[proof]]). Every matter is content-addressed like every node (the global content-uuid plugin) — same matter content ⇒ same id ⇒ matters [[merge]] by design across instances. Visibility is row-level ([[access]]): `partyRoleAccess` returns only the matters the acting user is a party to (admins hold the blanket capability) — the judicial twin of tenant isolation. Every state transition (file·hear·rule·seal) is recorded by the standard audit [[hooks]] and survives in git [[history]]. `criminal` matters carry the **offence** record on the `type` discriminator; `arbitration` and `mediation` are the [[dispute-resolution]] forks — one docket, many subtypes, no new silo. Police/prosecution coordination is `relatedMatters` cross-references, not a separate collection. Jurisdiction is the [[governing-law]] / [[jurisdiction]] seat (ISO 3166-1). Sequence position **8** on the ring — the crest where charge, evidence and defence converge and collapse into one judgment. ## Standards The answer-path principle: modelling a matter on this docket IS placing it under the canonical public-order stack (see [[standard]]). - **UN COFOG 03** — Public order and safety (03.3 law courts); the societal coordinate every case references. - **ISO 19011:2018 / ISA 500** — append-only, sufficient, traceable evidence; the chain of custody as an audit ledger over every transition. - **ISO 27001 A.5.23** — access isolation; party-scoped matters gated per [[access]]. - **RFC 9562 §5.8** — content-uuid exhibit identity (same content ⇒ same id). **Law — [[law]]: a case is a docket whose status moves along the closed [[horo]] ring `1·2·4·8·7·5·9` (anything off-ring is rejected); evidence is append-only ([[identity]]) and a matter seals ONLY when a judgment exists — charge ↔ defence balance into one judgment, the [[accounting]] double-entry of [[justice]].**