How to create an eBundle - general purpose PDF software or a specialised legal eBundle system?

The hearing at the end of a civil court case is traditionally known as a "trial" and at that hearing the court refers to evidential documents such as witness statements, emails, letters, contracts, photographs, etc arranged in order which was traditionally called a "Trial Bundle". 

Most civil cases in the courts were and are concerned with some kind of "wrong" which one party alleges the other party is responsible for (breach of contract, causing property damage or bodily injury through negligence, etc.) but many of the cases which specialist tribunals deal with are concerned with deciding  some disputed issue such as who owns land, or whether some right claimed exists or not, without there necessarily being any implication that either party is at fault or has committed a legal wrong. So in specialist tribunals it may be not so much, or at least not always, the case that a person's actions are "on trial"; rather the tribunal is considering the evidence and legal arguments to decide on some disputed issue which will affect the parties rights in future and, because it is sometimes thought that to call the hearing a "trial" might be seen as unnecessarily personal, specialist tribunals in particular may simply refer to it as the "final hearing". In some complex cases there may be one or more interim hearings to decide limited preliminary issues before the final hearing so in that case the final hearing is "final" in the sense of being the last of a series of hearings but even if, as is usually the case, the final hearing is the only hearing in the proceedings it is still the "final hearing" in the sense that it is the last step in the litigation process which finally decides the issue which is disputed between the parties.  

Before photocopiers came into widespread use, the Trial Bundle or Final Hearing Bundle consisted of original documents, with some manuscript copies, bound up together, but nowadays there is a paginated, bookmarked and indexed PDF known as an eBundle. 

General PDF software can be used to create bookmarked, indexed and paginated PDFs for interim hearings (and also to create an authorities bundle - containing statutes and case-law - for the final hearing) but because general PDF software has only limited facilities to arrange documents by date (general PDF software can arrange documents by file-system date-created/modified but the file-system date-created/modified of a PDF scan of a paper document, for example,  will be just the date it was scanned, not the date of the document itself) and also because general PDF software often has limited facilities to convert some file types such as emails, it is usual to use a document management system specifically designed for litigation, such as Bundledocs, to store documents and generate the indexed and paginated PDF which will become the eBundle for the final hearing (trial).

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