There is an increasing focus in UK litigation on early identification of the issues between the
parties in the form of a Court-approved List of Issues on which all other stages from pleadings
through to trial must rely, and on which the facts, the documents and every other element of the
case must be hung.
CaseMap is a well-established software application owned by LexisNexis whose primary function
is to facilitate the identification of the key components in a case – the facts, people, documents
etc – and to help make sense of how these interact with the issues and other elements of the
case.
This paper explores briefly how the functionality of CaseMap matches the issues-based focus of
the UK courts at all levels