"Hearing readiness — turn weeks of bundle prep into hours."
BundleCreator is court bundle software for courts and tribunals in England and Wales, built to get you hearing ready. Over 370 court-ready templates across 24 areas of law — Family, Employment, Immigration, Probate, SEND and more — with automatic Bates-style section numbering, auto-generated title pages, and built-in lossless PDF compression that shrinks oversized bundles to filing-ready size. Designed to meet the formatting rules of the courts and tribunals we support.
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BundleCreator is built for hearing readiness — a court and tribunal bundle preparation tool with a procedural framework that’s regularly reviewed against current court and tribunal rules. Every area of law gets a visual tube map of its journey, from pre-action through hearings to enforcement. Twenty-four specialist AI reviewers — covering child arrangements, employment, criminal, immigration, SEND, regulatory law and eighteen other areas — check every template each week against today's legislation. Every template carries the date of its last expert review. The bundle is what brings you in. The verified procedure underneath is what makes it worth using.
“What would have taken days of stress, I completed confidently in hours.”
Sammy I., Litigant in Person
We understand
A UK court bundle is a single paginated, indexed PDF containing every document a judge or tribunal needs for a hearing. Prepared by hand, a 350-page bundle can take four hours or more to format — pagination, section lettering, index, hyperlinks, compression, and a practice-direction-compliant layout all done manually in Word or a PDF editor. Every time a new document arrives, the entire index has to be regenerated.
With BundleCreator, the same bundle typically takes under an hour. The software handles the technical compliance work — pagination, indexing, bookmarks, continuous or per-section numbering, and the format required by Practice Direction 27A or the tribunal rules that apply to your hearing — so you can focus on the substance of your case.
"What would have taken days of stress, I completed confidently in hours."
— Sammy I., Litigant in Person, Manchester
"A good bundle cannot win a bad case, but a bad bundle can damage a good case."
— Paul Waterworth, Retired District Judge
Before a hearing, the judge sits down with one thing: the bundle. The judge’s perspective, what you need to provide, and how the rules vary across Family, SEND, Employment and Immigration proceedings in England and Wales.
No legal training required. Step-by-step guidance included.
Upload your documents — PDFs, Word files, or images
Drag into sections. We handle pagination and indexing
Download your court-ready, PD27A-formatted PDF bundle
BundleCreator handles the technical formatting so you can focus on your case.
Over 370 templates across 24 areas of law, each mapped to its hearing stages.
BundleCreator provides over 370 court bundle templates across 24 areas of UK law, organised by hearing stage and aligned to the applicable practice direction or procedure rules. The 24 areas are: Child Arrangements, Divorce & Finance, Domestic Abuse, TOLATA (property disputes between unmarried couples), Public Children Law (care proceedings), Family Law (general), Small Claims, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury, Housing Disrepair, Housing Possession & Debt, Conveyancing, Commercial Property, Employment Tribunal, Immigration & Asylum, SEND Tribunal, Property Chamber, Money & Tax, Criminal, Wills & Probate, Intellectual Property, Bankruptcy, Regulatory Law, and Medical Negligence. Each area contains templates mapped to the specific hearing stages within that jurisdiction — for example, the Family Court templates follow the FHDRA → DRA → Fact-Finding → Final Hearing progression and are structured for Practice Direction 27A (updated March 2026). Employment Tribunal templates follow the ET1 → Case Management → Merits Hearing progression under the Employment Tribunal Rules of Procedure 2013. Every template includes yellow-highlighted guidance text that strips automatically on export, so the final bundle contains only the professional document.
Built-in guidance shows what to write and what to include — no legal training needed.
Every one of the 370-plus pre-built BundleCreator templates is pre-filled with yellow-highlighted guidance text that explains what to write in each section, which documents to include, and the order the court expects. The guidance strips automatically on export so your final bundle contains only the professional document. You do not need legal training or prior court experience to produce a court-ready bundle — the template tells you exactly what goes where, and the bundle index is generated for you. Templates are mapped to the relevant Practice Direction or procedure rule for each document type and reviewed internally before release.
Complete 35+ official court forms on-screen and save them straight into your bundle.
BundleCreator includes over 35 official UK government court forms — ET1 and ET3 for the Employment Tribunal, FL401 for non-molestation and occupation orders, C100 for child arrangements, SEND35 for the SEND tribunal, N208, and more — that you complete directly in the editor. Forms are filled on-screen, saved as part of your bundle, and exported as flattened PDF pages so they cannot be tampered with after submission. No printing or scanning required. New forms are added as HMCTS and the tribunals publish revisions.
UK-hosted and AES-256 encrypted, with optional password protection on every export.
All BundleCreator customer data is hosted in the United Kingdom (Google Cloud, London region) and encrypted with AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit. You can also apply AES-256 password protection to the exported PDF bundle itself, with granular permissions controlling who can print, copy, or annotate the file. The encryption step is performed entirely in the user's browser; the unencrypted PDF is not transmitted during encryption. Audit logs are retained for seven years. Penetration testing is scheduled for August 2026.
Shrinks oversized bundles by up to 70% so they fit court file-size limits.
BundleCreator uses a dual-pass PDF compressor that typically reduces bundle file size by up to 70% while preserving the 300 DPI resolution needed for court-legible exhibits. In one customer example, a 56 MB bundle of scanned evidence compressed to around 15 MB — small enough to email, upload to CE-File, or submit to a court portal with strict file-size limits. Compression runs after the bundle is assembled, so indexing, pagination, and hyperlinks are preserved. The compressor is written in Rust for speed.
Add video evidence as a scannable QR code linked from the right page.
BundleCreator lets you upload video files — incident recordings, CCTV clips, or screen captures — and the exported PDF includes a scannable QR code at the relevant page that links back to the video. Judges and court staff can view the evidence directly from the printed or on-screen bundle without hunting through separate files. Subject to the court's own policies on external links in bundles, which vary by tribunal and jurisdiction. Check local practice before relying on QR links for your hearing type.
Quick Answer
A UK court bundle is a single paginated PDF containing every document a judge or tribunal needs for a hearing — statements, evidence, applications, and correspondence. BundleCreator is UK court bundle software built for litigants in person, solicitors, barristers, paralegals, and McKenzie Friends. It covers over 370 pre-built templates across 24 areas of law — family, divorce, SEND, employment, immigration, criminal, commercial, housing, and more — and is designed to help meet Practice Direction 27A (PD 27A, the Family Court rule), the Civil Procedure Rules, and the equivalent tribunal rules. Bundles start at £29.99 (pay-as-you-go) or £19.99 per month. All documents are hosted in the United Kingdom, encrypted with AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit, and handled in line with UK GDPR. BundleCreator does not train AI on customer data. Built in London by Steleo Publishing Limited (company no. 11891029).
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026 by Stevie Hayes
BundleCreator formats bundles to align with the practice direction or procedure rules for your hearing type. England and Wales only. This is a reference summary — the rule set that applies to your case ultimately depends on the court or tribunal your hearing is in.
| Hearing type | Rule set | Numbering convention |
|---|---|---|
| Family Court (children, finances, domestic abuse) | Practice Direction 27A (2 March 2026) | Bates per-section restart (A1, A2, B1) for non-financial-remedy under Ch 7.2; Arabic consecutive for financial remedy under Ch 6.2 |
| Civil Court (contract, property, small claims) | Civil Procedure Rules 1998 | Per-section or continuous |
| Employment Tribunal | Employment Tribunal Rules of Procedure 2013 | Per-section (typical) |
| Immigration and Asylum Chamber | Tribunal Procedure (FTT)(IAC) Rules 2014 | Per-section (typical) |
| SEND Tribunal | Practice Direction No. 1 of 2025 (HESC) | Per-section (typical) |
| Property Chamber (FTT) | Tribunal Procedure Rules (Property) 2013 | Per-section (typical) |
| Crown Court / Magistrates’ Court (criminal) | Criminal Procedure Rules 2025 | Per-section (typical) |
BundleCreator supports both numbering conventions and the toggle is per-bundle in the editor toolbar. Full compliance reference at /pd27a-compliance.
BundleCreator is built for the real caseload of the English and Welsh courts. The official statistics below are published by the Ministry of Justice and by the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass).
| Metric | Figure | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| New private law children’s cases received by Cafcass | 42,172 cases (63,879 children) | 1 April 2025 – 31 March 2026 | Cafcass Our Data |
| Year-on-year growth in private law demand | +8.2% (+3,213 cases, +4,734 children) | FY 2025/26 vs FY 2024/25 | Cafcass Our Data |
| New public law children’s cases received by Cafcass | 16,975 cases (27,182 children) | 1 April 2025 – 31 March 2026 | Cafcass Our Data |
| Section 31 Care Applications | 12,082 applications (19,846 children) | 1 April 2025 – 31 March 2026 | Cafcass Our Data |
| Cafcass open children’s cases | 29,313 cases (46,501 children) | End March 2026 | Cafcass Our Data |
| Crown Court open caseload | Over 80,000 cases (series peak) | End Q4 2025 | MoJ Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly |
| Crown Court listed trials requiring rescheduling | 26% | Q4 2025 | MoJ Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly |
| Magistrates’ court listed trials requiring rescheduling | 22% | Q4 2025 | MoJ Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly |
Sources: Cafcass Our Data (figures for the financial year ending 31 March 2026, released monthly); Criminal court statistics quarterly: October to December 2025 (Ministry of Justice). Related MoJ bulletins: Family Court Statistics Quarterly and Tribunal Statistics Quarterly (published 12 March 2026).
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What users have said about BundleCreator after preparing their bundles
BundleCreator is used by litigants in person and solicitors across England and Wales, and is built for barristers, paralegals, legal executives, and McKenzie Friends. Users have prepared bundles for hearings in the Family Court, County Court, Employment Tribunals, and SEND Tribunals. In verified reviews, users report reducing bundle preparation time from days to hours — one litigant in person compressed a 361-page bundle from 56 MB to 15 MB while maintaining 300 DPI resolution. Paul Waterworth, a retired District Judge, has observed: “A good bundle cannot win a bad case, but a bad bundle can damage a good case.”
“As a litigant in person, BundleCreator was invaluable. What would have taken days of stress, I completed confidently in hours. My 361 page bundle packed with large images had been 56MB and amazingly BundleCreator compressed it to only 15MB, still at 300 DPI.”
Sammy I.
Litigant in Person, Manchester, UK
“Outstanding service from BundleCreator.co. Their support spent around 30 minutes on the phone with me late at night to help resolve a minor issue so I could get a bundle submitted to the High Court the next day. I've purchased other bundling software before, but this is by far the most user-friendly system I've used — and I've only created under ten bundles myself. The layout is clear, intuitive, and the built-in compliance checker is incredibly useful. It even picked up line-spacing issues in my bundle. Exceptional dedication and an excellent product.”
D.S.
Litigant in Person, Portsmouth, UK
“A friend recommended BundleCreator. I used one of the built-in templates for the chronology and another for my position statement, which I'd never have known I needed. The platform told me exactly which sections my Housing Disrepair bundle required and put everything in the right order automatically. I was able to share my bundle with a Direct Access Barrister, which in the end saved me time and money.”
A.M.
Litigant in Person, Devon, UK
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Practical articles on court bundles, Practice Directions, and UK litigation procedure.
Housing Possession & Tenant Debt
A right to rent civil penalty is challenged first by a written objection to the Home Office within 28 days, then by appeal to the county court, not a tribunal. The court re-hears the decision and can cancel or reduce the penalty.
Property Chamber
A rent repayment order can make a landlord repay up to two years' rent for offences from 1 May 2026, including unlicensed HMOs. Here is how tenants apply on form RRO1 and how landlords answer in the First-tier Tribunal.
Property Chamber
Landlords in England must have rented homes' electrics inspected every five years. Here is how councils enforce the duty, how penalties of up to £40,000 are imposed, and how to appeal to the First-tier Tribunal on form ESS01 within 28 days.
Housing Possession & Tenant Debt
Registration on the Private Rented Sector Database is not yet a legal requirement. Once the Renters' Rights Act 2025 provisions are in force, a court will be unable to make a possession order on any ground except 7A and 14 while the landlord is in breach of the duty to register, but non-registration does not stop a Section 8 notice being served. Draft regional dates, fee guidance and bundle evidence, checked 2 October 2026.
Housing Possession & Tenant Debt
After a Ground 1 or 1A notice, a private landlord must not re-let or market the property for letting from the day the notice is served until the end of 12 months beginning with the earliest proceedings date in it, subject to narrow exceptions. Breach is an offence, and a former tenant can seek a rent repayment order of up to 2 years' rent.
Housing Possession & Tenant Debt
From 1 May 2026 the court can order possession of a property let on a private assured tenancy in England only on a Schedule 2 ground, usually after the landlord serves notice under Section 8 on Form 3A. Picking the right ground, with the right evidence and notice period, can decide whether the claim succeeds.
Court-specific guidance for Family Courts, County Courts, and Employment Tribunals across England and Wales.
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Newcastle Civil & Family Courts and Tribunals Centre
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Sheffield Designated Family Court
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Cardiff Civil and Family Justice Centre
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Everything you need to know about BundleCreator
BundleCreator is court bundle software that helps anyone create court bundles online—whether you're representing yourself or a legal professional. Our software automates pagination, indexing, and court-required formatting. Built for litigants in person, solicitors, barristers, paralegals, and McKenzie Friends across Family, Civil, Employment, and Commercial litigation. Features include AES-256 encryption, drag-and-drop reordering, and PDF compression.
BundleCreator offers three subscription tiers: Essential (£19.99/month) for individuals with occasional cases, up to 15 bundles and free sharing, Pro (£39.99/month) for regular bundle creators with up to 40 bundles and free sharing, and Platinum (£79.99/month) for high-volume users with up to 100 bundles and free sharing. Annual billing saves 20%. We also offer Pay-As-You-Go at £29.99 for 30 days for occasional users.
You can purchase additional bundles as needed at £3 per additional bundle on all plans. Sharing is free on all plans - share bundles with any registered BundleCreator user at no extra cost.
We use AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS 1.3 encryption in transit. All data is stored in UK data centres (London) and handled in line with UK GDPR. We follow security practices informed by ISO 27001 standards.
Yes, we offer a 7-day trial with full access to all features. No credit card required to start. You can also use our PAYG option to create individual bundles without a subscription.
BundleCreator is designed to format bundles according to UK court and tribunal requirements. However, court acceptance cannot be guaranteed as requirements may vary by court, jurisdiction, and case type. Users are responsible for final verification before submission.
In family proceedings the applicant prepares, files and serves the bundle, unless the applicant is unrepresented and the respondent is legally represented, when the respondent does it (Practice Direction 27A, paragraphs 4.5 and 4.6). The bundle must be filed and served no later than 5 working days before the hearing, and preliminary documents by 11am on the working day before (paragraph 13.2). Civil and tribunal cases follow the court's or tribunal's directions.
The Judiciary's General Guidance on Electronic Court Bundles (29 November 2021) requires a PDF with computer-generated page numbers matching the PDF page numbers, a hyperlinked index, bookmarks for every significant document and section, OCR searchable text, no more than 300 dpi and a 100% default view. Family bundles follow Practice Direction 27A where it differs: Bates section numbering outside financial remedy, and a 350-page limit.
The family court bundle direction was replaced in full. The bundle is now filed 5 working days before the hearing rather than 2, pagination depends on the type of case (Bates numbering by section for most family cases, Arabic numbers for financial remedy), more document types are excluded unless the court directs, and e-bundles are the default. Our Practice Direction 27A page sets out every rule with its paragraph number.
Under Practice Direction 27A the court can take a case out of the list or make a costs order for a non-compliant bundle (paragraph 3.1). The usual failures are filing late, exceeding 350 pages without permission, including excluded correspondence, messages, bank statements or photographs without a direction, handwritten page numbers, a PDF with no bookmarks or searchable text, and witness statements over 25 pages excluding exhibits. BundleCreator lays out sections and numbering; the filing party checks the contents.
Free tools exist, and a bundle can be assembled by hand in a general PDF editor. What they usually leave to you is the part that takes the time: the section order the court expects, the numbering rules for your type of case, the index, the bookmarks and templates for the documents you must draft. BundleCreator is not free after the trial; a single bundle costs £29.99 for 30 days with no subscription, and the trial gives full access first.
No, BundleCreator is entirely web-based. You can create court bundles online in any modern browser on desktop, tablet, or mobile. No downloads or installations required—just log in and start building your bundle.
Yes, you can cancel your subscription at any time. Your access continues until the end of your current billing period. We also offer a PAYG option for occasional users.
BundleCreator includes comprehensive video tutorials, step-by-step guides, and in-app tooltips to help you get started quickly. Our knowledge base covers common questions and best practices for creating court and tribunal ready bundles.
No. BundleCreator never uses your documents, bundles, or case details to train AI models — ours or anyone else's. Where we do use AI, it is for specific features under strict privacy controls. Our Mind Map feature uses Anthropic's Claude API, configured with zero data retention, and personally identifiable information (postcodes, phone numbers, names, NHS numbers, case references) is stripped in your browser before anything reaches Claude. Read Aloud uses Google Cloud Text-to-Speech, which does not train on content. Document OCR runs entirely on your device through Tesseract. We do not sell customer data and do not share it with any third party for training, advertising, or analytics. Full detail at https://bundlecreator.co/ai-transparency.
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Solicitors, barristers, and litigants in person in England and Wales use BundleCreator to prepare bundles formatted to court and tribunal requirements far faster than manual assembly.
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