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Subject: ECF 5 Feedback (WD30)
Greeting TC members, We at Tyler Technologies have encountered several challenges when attempting to model our needs with ECF 5. Specifically: Problem 1: CaseParticipantRoleCode Page 48 of WD30 says: Parties not represented by an attorney should be represented with
ecf:CaseParty and the
ecf:CaseParticipantRoleCode value “SelfRepresentedLitigant”. We believe this is a poor practice – mixing two legal concepts: 1) A person’s role within the case and 2) whether the person is self-represented or represented by counsel. For this reason, we recommend:
Problem 2: ReserveCourtDate We have added this operation (and it’s cousins AllocateCourtDate and NotifyCourtDate) to our implementation recently to accommodate requirements in Cook County, IL. However, we found that we needed ReserveCourtDate to provide calendar
availability information via the synchronous response. We use this in two models:
Problem 3: Hearing Dates We believe the schema should allow UTC for hearings dates, since statewide systems can have courts in multiple timezones. This would eliminate the ambiguity. Specifically the Case/CaseAugmentation/CaseCourtEvent/CourtEventSchedule structure’s
ScheduledDate element for the following messages:
Thanks for your consideration. Philip Baughman |
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