Your own templates
Copy a shipped form and make it yours, or write one from nothing.
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Reviewed 24 September 2026
Step by step
- Copy before you edit Copy on a shipped template gives you your own version. The original is left alone — it belongs to everyone on the platform.
- Use {{placeholders}} Anything in double braces is asked for when the document is drafted. Names the application already knows — the court, the client, your enrolment number — are filled in without asking.
- Set the paper and the layout Legal or A4; court layout or correspondence. This decides the margins and where the cause title sits.
- Write the note One line saying what has to be checked before it is filed. Your junior will read it at eleven at night and you will not be there.
- Draft from it It appears in the library beside the shipped forms, marked as yours.
Questions
Can my chamber use my templates?
Yes, everyone in your chamber drafts from them.
What happens to my copy when the shipped one is updated?
Nothing. Your copy is independent from the moment you make it.
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Reviewed 24 September 2026