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The official sources, and the line this site does not cross
Which public bodies publish their own procedures, decisions and registers, and why an information site is not a substitute for the source it summarises.
Every procedure described on Plain Docket is published by the body that operates it, at no charge, on a public website. Reading the original is always better than reading a summary of it, including this one.
Why the primary source wins
A summary is fixed at the date it was written; the source is not. Statutes are amended, agency pages are rewritten, fees change. This site dates every figure it quotes precisely so that a reader can tell how old the summary has become.
Where a reference site has to stop
Explaining how a published procedure works is writing. Telling a particular person what to do about their own situation is legal work, done by people who are admitted to a bar and answerable for it. Plain Docket does the first and never the second, and this folio is the page that says so plainly.
In this folio
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The official sources, and why they beat any summary
The statute page, the agency site and the board docket are free to read, and each number arrives attached to the subsection that publishes it. This piece shows what the official text carries and a summary drops.
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What a reference site cannot do for a reader
A reference site can quote the deadline, the fee and the citation, with the date it was read. It cannot read a reader's papers, weigh a case, or tell anyone what to do.
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