Missing a limitation period or an appeal window is one of the costliest mistakes in litigation practice, and it usually happens because a deadline lived in someone's head or a paper diary rather than a shared system. CaseDesk's Timeline panel reads every uploaded document for a matter and surfaces the chronology, limitation periods, and procedural deadlines that apply to it.
Per-matter eCourts sync, not a firm-wide calendar
The Hearing Schedule tab adds a second, complementary source: enter a matter's CNR and CaseDesk syncs that case's hearing dates, listings, filings, and orders directly from the eCourts portal into the timeline. This is scoped to the individual matter you're viewing — it pulls the procedural record for that case, not a scrape of an entire court's daily cause list across every matter your firm might be tracking.
Where appeal windows come from on the other side of the platform
The Case Workspace's Timeline is one half of how CaseDesk surfaces time-sensitive deadlines — the Judgement Registry separately scores SLP and appeal viability across fresh judgements, with a visible countdown on eligible matters, which is a different (business-development) use of the same underlying limitation-period signal. Read more in limitation periods and appeal windows in India.
Frequently asked questions
Does CaseDesk track my whole firm's cause list?
No — Hearing Schedule sync works per matter. You enter that specific case's CNR and CaseDesk pulls hearing dates, listings, filings, and orders for that matter from the eCourts portal. It isn't a firm-wide cause-list tracker for every case before every court.
Where do limitation periods come from?
The Timeline panel extracts limitation periods and procedural deadlines directly from the documents you upload to a matter, as part of the nine-agent analysis.
What is CNR sync, exactly?
CNR (case number record) is the unique identifier eCourts assigns to a case. Entering it into a workspace's Hearing Schedule lets CaseDesk pull that matter's listings, filings, and orders from the eCourts portal into your timeline.