Defence dossier
The dossier gathers everything about one case into a single document: identification, deadlines, filing receipts, attachments and the full chronology. It is the document you hand to an authority, to a lawyer or to an auditor.
What it contains
How to generate it
Open it from the case being worked (or from the registry) under Dossier. The document is laid out for print: use the browser's print function and save as PDF. The result is self-contained — it contains no links that must stay reachable for it to be read.
Good practice. Generate the dossier at every filing, not only at closure. A PDF dated per phase shows the state of knowledge at that moment, which is what matters when the reasonableness of a decision is assessed.
How it is used
- With the authority — it accompanies or follows the filed communication, when you are asked to document how the event was handled.
- With counsel — it is the factual basis on which a defence is built: dates, acts, authors.
- In audits and due diligence — it shows a process exists and was followed, not merely written down in a procedure.
- Internally — it is the most useful read in a post-incident review: where the minutes went.
The document digest
The header carries a digest summarising the dossier's identifying elements (case, receipt, filing moment). It lets you quote a specific copy in a message and check that two copies match. Substantive integrity verification remains the registry chain, which covers every row reported in the chronology.
When the dossier is not enough
The dossier documents what passed through CRAnotify. Evidence that lives elsewhere — correspondence with the researcher, your own system logs, the code of the fix, the advisories published to customers — must be kept alongside the dossier, not instead of it. A folder per case, with the dossier PDF as its index, is the arrangement that holds up best over time.
Related exports
| Document | Where | Content |
|---|---|---|
| Case dossier | Case › Dossier | The complete case, laid out for print. |
| Registry as CSV | Registry › Export | Every row (respecting active filters) and the chain digests. |
| Account data export | Account area › Legal | The account data in JSON. |
| Filing receipts | Case › Receipts | The original files issued by the platform. |