Features

A complete instruction lifecycle from receipt through triage, conflict checking, counsel selection, allocation and acceptance. Solo barristers accept directly. Chambers use clerk-managed allocation with barrister approval.

Secure collaborative workspaces for every matter. Nine tabs: overview, documents, messages, tasks, diary, participants, activity, finance and intelligence. Full RLS isolation. Restricted-matter barriers.

Booking management with availability windows, scheduling holds, clash detection and exclusion constraints. Temporal model uses timestamptz throughout. Supports hearings, conferences, deadlines and preparation time.

Version-controlled documents with classification categories, upload scanning, permission-gated delivery and soft deletion. Documents are delivered through a brokered function — never directly accessible.

A dedicated solicitor portal for instructing firms. Matter access, document sharing, messaging and fee visibility — all governed by explicit participation and resource permissions.

Fee agreements, fee items, invoices, payments and a ledger-backed accounting system. All amounts in integer minor units with explicit currency. Supports fixed fees, hourly, daily, brief fees and staged billing. VAT handling included.

Operational clerking workspace with instruction triage, allocation workflows, caseload visibility and capacity management. Workload engine tracks commitments across barristers.

Executive reporting on chambers operations. Revenue, utilisation, instruction pipeline, aged debt and practice area analysis. Export capability.

Track professional relationships between barristers, solicitors, firms and chambers. Activity history, duplicate detection and relationship scoring.

AI-governed administrative agent for instruction triage, diary checks, booking proposals, correspondence drafts and practice briefings. Operates within the agent runtime with approval controls and kill switches.

Intelligent fee management assistance. Reviews time entries, suggests fee items and identifies aged debt. Read-only by default with governed execution.

Personal practice intelligence for individual barristers. Workload analysis, availability optimisation and practice development insights.

Executive operational intelligence for chambers administrators. Revenue trends, member utilisation, capacity planning and operational alerts.

Governed matter-level intelligence through the CirclAI sandbox integration. Capabilities include chronology, case overview, issues identification, evidence mapping and document summary. All transfers require explicit manifest approval. Synthetic mode only — no real protected data processing without separate authorization.

Tenant-level branding with display name, logo, colours, welcome text and portal configuration. Chambers can maintain their existing website and link to a branded ChambersDirect portal.

Synchronise diary availability with Google Calendar. ChambersDirect remains authoritative for professional bookings. Google Calendar contributes personal free/busy data.