disclosure-list-andrew-bird
Works out which documents you have to hand over to the other side in a civil case in England & Wales, and builds the formal list. The part it gets right that trips people up is which disclosure regime applies — Practice Direction 57AD (the Disclosure Pilot, now permanent in the Business and Property Courts, with its Models A–E) or standard disclosure under CPR Part 31 everywhere else. It picks the regime, chooses a Model per issue, structures the Disclosure Review Document, and drafts the disclosure certificate for the party to sign personally. Built for litigation juniors, in-house counsel, a
npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill disclosure-list-andrew-bird --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# /disclosure-list 1. Identify the regime — PD 57AD (Business and Property Courts: Commercial Court, Chancery Division, TCC, Circuit Commercial, IP, Financial List) or CPR Part 31 (everywhere else, including most county court multi-track cases). 2. Under PD 57AD: select the appropriate Extended Disclosure Model(s) (A–E) per issue. Initial Disclosure is also required. 3. Under CPR 31: apply "standard disclosure" (CPR 31.6) — documents on which a party relies, plus documents that adversely affect own case / support another party's case / are required by a relevant practice direction. 4. Build the List of Documents (N265 form under CPR; Disclosure Review Document under PD 57AD). 5. Apply privilege screening before disclosure. --- # Disclosure list ## Which regime? | Court / Division | Regime | |---|---| | Business and Property Courts (Commercial, Chancery, TCC, Circuit Commercial, IP, Financial List) | PD 57AD (Disclosure Pilot — now permanent) | | Other High Court divisions, County Court, fast track and multi-track | CPR Part 31 | | Small claims track | CPR 27.4 (limited disclosure on directions) | | Family proceedings | FPR — separate regime not covered here | ## PD 57AD — Extended
- Which regime?
- PD 57AD — Extended Disclosure Models
- CPR Part 31 — standard disclosure
- Inputs
- Workflow
- Step 1 — Regime check
- Step 2 — Initial Disclosure (PD 57AD)
- Step 3 — Issues for disclosure (PD 57AD only)
- Step 4 — Model selection per issue (PD 57AD)
- Step 5 — Custodian / data-source mapping
- Step 6 — Search methodology
- Step 7 — Privilege review
- Step 8 — List of Documents
- Output
What does the disclosure-list-andrew-bird skill do?
Works out which documents you have to hand over to the other side in a civil case in England & Wales, and builds the formal list. The part it gets right that trips people up is which disclosure regime applies — Practice Direction 57AD (the Disclosure Pilot, now permanent in the Business and Property Courts, with its Models A–E) or standard disclosure under CPR Part 31 everywhere else. It picks the regime, chooses a Model per issue, structures the Disclosure Review Document, and drafts the disclosure certificate for the party to sign personally. Built for litigation juniors, in-house counsel, a
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill disclosure-list-andrew-bird --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills, a repository with 618 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.