VPRS 18228 Submissions [Legal Discovery/Case Management System]

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This series contains the full set of redacted and unredacted written submissions to the Royal Commission into Family Violence. The submissions in this series were managed in the Commission's legal discovery / case management system (known as Ringtail). The submissions in this series could be considered the authoritative/official version supporting the Commission's hearings and final report. Each submission includes a dump of the metadata that was stored against it within the legal discovery / case management system.

Note that some submissions in this series are subject to an order prohibiting the publication of any information that may enable the identity of the person who has given information or evidence to the Commission to be ascertained. Submissions that are known to be subject to an order have been flagged as such.

A set of redacted (blacked out) submissions were published to the Commission's website during the course of the Commission. These can be found in VPRS 18241 Submissions [Published].

Submissions were received from individuals and organisations and were considered by the Commission to be critical to its task of investigating issues relating to its terms of reference. An issues paper was released on 31 March 2015 to guide their preparation (see VPRS 18245 Terms of Reference and Procedural Records). There was no prescribed format - they could be typed or handwritten or made orally if there was difficulty writing - in which case the submission was written up by a member of the Commission's staff. Nearly 1000 submissions were received up to the closing date of 29th May 2015.

Details about the role played by submissions in the Commission's work is available in Volume 1, Section 1 (The Royal Commission and its Work) of the Commission's final report.

The key information recorded for each submission in this series includes:
* The name of the person / organisation making the submission.
* The title of the submission.
* The date the submission was imported to the case management / legal discovery system.
* The submission covers sheet date.
* A flag indicating if the submission was subject to an order prohibiting publication of any information that could identify the submittor (and the text of the order if applicable)
* An export of all the metadata that was stored against the submission within the case management / legal discovery system.

Related 'submissions' series include:
* VPRS 18241 Submissions [Published]. This series consists of the redacted submissions that were publicly available during the course of the Commission.
* VPRS 18240 Legal Discovery / Case Management System Metadata Export. This series consists of a consolidated metadata export from the Commission's legal discovery / case management system.
* VPRS 18245 Terms of Reference and Procedural Records. The issues paper and coversheet proforma referred to above can be found in this series.
* VPRS 18238 Extracts from Submissions and Community Consultation Records [Research and Analysis System]. This series consists of extracts from submissions, marked up to indicate text that was of interest to the Commission's research and analysis.
* VPRS 18230 Community Consultation and Engagement Records [Administrative and Investigative Records Collection]. This series contains the unredacted 'raw' submissions as they were first received, including covering correspondence if there was any (only occasionally substantive in nature). Submissions were processed (reviewed for redaction, checked if defamatory etc.) from here into the Commission's legal discovery / case management system.
* VPRS 18239 Email [Senior Officers of the Commission]. This series may contain 'raw' submissions and covering correspondence that were emailed to the Commission.