VPRS 8375 Courtlink Case Management System [Index to Appeal Files; Computer Output Index]

Full description

In normal administrative practice the Administrative Appeals Tribunal(AAT) had no need of a manual register or index to appeal files from mid 1989. From that time, all AAT appeal cases were registered and accessed by use of a computer case management system known as Courtlink. All inquires relating to appeal files were undertaken by identifying particular files through the Courtlink system. This series registers the Courtlink system as represented by outputs of the system. At the time of this registration (1993) the outputs consist of indexes generated from the computer system.

In 1991 the Records Disposal Schedule for Records of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal was issued by the Keeper of Public Records as Public Record Office Standard (PROS) 91/10. The indexes in this series were created by the AAT in accordance with the requirements of that standard. The indexes were specified to be produced, primarily to allow access by researchers to appeal files transferred into archival custody. It was not possible to transfer the control records normally created by AAT, that is, the computer system, into archival custody. The standard specified that either a paper or microfiche annual index should be produced.

Previous Series
July 1989 was the time from which the Courtlink system was employed and the files indexed in this series therefore date from that time. Appeal files created before July 1989 were registered and indexed in a manual system, refer to VPRS 8376 Register of Planning Appeals and VPRS 8348 Card Index to Appeal Files, Planning.

Date Range
The first index in this series was produced in 1992. The records to which this series refers, however, have a date range commencing in 1989.