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Answer affidavits paragraph by paragraph

Upload the founding affidavit, scanned or not, take your client's instructions on each paragraph, and get an answer with an AD PARAGRAPH section for every one - none skipped.

An answering affidavit deals with the founding affidavit paragraph by paragraph - "AD PARAGRAPH 6 THEREOF" - and has to account for every one, in order. Squire™ reads the paper itself, scanned or not, sets out a section for each paragraph, and fills them from your client's instructions. What the deponent admits, denies or notes is always yours to say.

A scanned founding affidavit's page offers Draft the answering affidavit; the draft opens with an AD PARAGRAPH section for each paragraph; the lawyer types the client's instructions, paragraphs 1 to 4 become noted and 5 denied in the client's words, grouping 1 to 4 is confirmed on a card, and paragraph 6, with no instruction, still waits.

How it works

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    Upload the paper

    Add the founding affidavit - or an answering affidavit, particulars of claim, a plea - to the matter's documents as one file. A scanned bundle filed through Court Online is read with OCR, its paragraph numbers kept with their text. Squire recognises the paper and its page offers Answer this founding affidavit.

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    Take the client's instructions

    Response schedule makes a table with a row for each paragraph. Send the client Copy for the client - a spreadsheet of every paragraph - and bring their answers back with Import the client's instructions: the spreadsheet they return, or their email or letter, pasted or as a file. Each paragraph they name gets their own words, and you see every change before anything is written.

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    Draft the answer

    Generate drafts the schedule's responses from the instructions, then Create answer - or Draft the answering affidavit on the paper, opens the answer set out from the paper: the court heading and parties, the deponent's opening, and an AD PARAGRAPH section for every paragraph. Tell the assistant what the client says - "1 to 4 noted, deny 9" - and it writes the usual forms, grouping paragraphs answered alike under one heading.

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    Check before filing

    Check before filing in the draft's menu lists any paragraph without an answer, sections still waiting for instructions, notes left in the text and gaps in your annexures' numbering - then export to Word.

Every paragraph accounted for

  • The outline is built from the paper itself, not written by the AI
  • A paragraph the scan lost still gets its section, marked to check
  • "THEREOF" or not, the oath and the certificate follow your house style

The deponent's word, not the AI's

  • Without an instruction a section keeps "[Instructions required.]"
  • No facts, dates or annexures are made up for a sworn statement
  • The deponent's details copied from the paper are marked for you to confirm
  • The usual answer to a formal paragraph is only a suggestion

More in the FAQ: answering an affidavit, the client's instructions , scanned papers and photos and papers in Afrikaans.

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