The clerks' room, minus the morning scramble.

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Every evening, clerks check tomorrow’s court lists by hand, email every barrister, and phone around for cover. BOTBOT does the checking and the collating automatically, so the clerks’ room spends its time on judgment, not collation.

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Court lists, read for you

BOTBOT ingests daily Crown Court cause lists the moment they arrive and cross-references every entry against the chambers diary: case references, defendants, courtrooms, times and judges. Discrepancies are flagged before anyone is sat in the wrong court.

Accommodation requests without the morning email

Barristers see tomorrow's hearings in the companion iPhone app and tell the clerks what they need in a couple of taps: attending, need cover, or clash. Requests land in a structured inbox in the clerks' dashboard instead of a hundred reply-all emails.

BOTBOTTomorrow · Tue 28 Jul

R v WhitfieldAttending

Leeds Crown Court · Court 5 · 10:00

R v Adeyemi & orsNeed cover

Sheffield Crown Court · Court 2 · 10:30

R v BarrattClash

Bradford Crown Court · Court 1 · 14:00

AttendingNeed coverClash

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Cover suggestions with judgment

When a hearing needs cover, BOTBOT shortlists suitable members by specialism, seniority, panel status, existing commitments and realistic travel, with a reasoned explanation for each. The clerk always makes the decision; BOTBOT only ever suggests.

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The diary stays the diary

BOTBOT syncs from the systems chambers already use rather than replacing them. Clerk decisions are never overwritten by an automated process, and every change made from a court list is recorded.

Built at the Bar

By a practising criminal barrister, with the clerks' room it was designed for.

The daily listing-and-cover routine is the same in every chambers in the country, and almost all of it is checking that a machine can do faster and more reliably than a person at 6pm.

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