Commercial Litigation Bundle Software

BundleCreator's Commercial Litigation template follows the Business and Property Courts' standard order: claim form and particulars, defence and counterclaim, replies, witness statements (PD 57AC compliance documents at the front), expert evidence (CPR Part 35), disclosure (PD 57AD list of documents), and authorities. The output is a paginated PDF with hyperlinked index, OCR throughout, and section bookmarks ready for upload to the Rolls Building's electronic filing system.

PD 57AC requires trial witness statements in Business and Property Courts proceedings to comply with strict rules: only matters within the witness's own knowledge, no argument, no commentary on other evidence (PD 57AC Appendix para 3.6), with the witness's signed confirmation in the words of PD 57AC para 4.1 and, where the party is legally represented, the legal representative's certificate of compliance (para 4.3). BundleCreator's Commercial Litigation template includes a PD 57AC checklist slot at the front of each witness statement and orders statements with their statement of compliance and the legal representative's certificate of compliance in the bundle, so the trial judge can verify compliance at a glance.

PD 57AD (the Business and Property Courts disclosure regime, made permanent on 1 October 2022 after the pilot period; it does not apply in the County Court) requires a List of Issues for Disclosure and, where Extended Disclosure under Model C, D or E is sought, a Disclosure Review Document (PD 57AD para 10.1), and disclosure in one of five Models (A-E). BundleCreator's Commercial Litigation template has dedicated sections for the DRD, List of Issues, the Model selection rationale, and the disclosed documents themselves — paginated continuously and OCR'd so the trial judge and counsel can keyword-search the disclosure pack.

In a Business and Property Courts trial the skeleton arguments, chronology and reading list are provided separately from the trial bundles (Commercial Court Guide J.5.1, J.6.2–J.6.3; Chancery Guide 12.50–12.52), and authorities go in a separate bundle (Chancery Guide Appendix X para 12(b)). The trial bundles usually run: statements of case, witness statements, expert evidence, then contemporaneous documents in chronological order (Chancery Guide Appendix X para 11). BundleCreator's template orders these automatically with hyperlinks from the List of Issues to the underlying evidence on each issue.

BundleCreator's Pro tier is £39.99 a month, with an account limit of 40 bundles, no minimum seat count, and monthly billing. It produces Business and Property Courts-grade output (continuous pagination, OCR, bookmarks, hyperlinked index, PD 57AC and PD 57AD section structures) without enterprise pricing. The Platinum tier (£79.99 a month) raises the account limit to 100 bundles for high-volume mid-market firms.

BundleCreator runs entirely on Google Cloud's London region (europe-west2) — primary storage, backups, and processing all in the UK. AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit. Commercial-sensitive disclosure, board minutes, audit reports, and inter-party correspondence stay within UK borders, removing UK GDPR Article 44 transfer concerns and aligning with the solicitors' professional duty of confidentiality.

BundleCreator handles trial bundles up to 1,000 pages per bundle. For a structured Business and Property Courts pack — pleadings, witness statements with PD 57AC compliance documents, expert reports with joint statements, PD 57AD disclosure, and authorities — the bundle is paginated continuously, OCR'd throughout, and bookmarked at section and document level.

ICC arbitration hearings are run under the ICC Rules and the procedural orders of the Tribunal — there's no single prescribed bundle format like CPR Part 32 in court. BundleCreator's Commercial Litigation template adapts: parties' submissions, witness statements, expert reports, exhibits referenced by tab, hyperlinked index, OCR throughout, and bookmarks at submission/exhibit level. Output as one PDF for upload to the ICC online platform or as separate sub-bundles where the procedural order requires.

BundleCreator's Pro and Platinum tiers work well for chambers — £39.99/month for up to 40 bundles or £79.99/month for up to 100 bundles (account totals), with no per-seat minimum. Individual barristers and chambers' clerks can produce a Business and Property Courts trial bundle. The output integrates with barristers' typical workflow: download the PDF, mark up in their preferred annotation tool, share with instructing solicitors via secure link.