Notes on records, evidence & medico-legal practice.

1. Every entry is cited. A date, a finding and a provider mean little without a pointer to the page they came from. A court-ready chronology references the source document and page on every line, so nothing has to be taken on trust.

2. It’s genuinely chronological. Records arrive interleaved across GP, hospital and physiotherapy systems. Ordering strictly by date of encounter — and showing where the index injury sits — is what turns a pile of pages into a narrative.

3. It separates relevant from incidental. Decades of unrelated history bury the point. The skill is surfacing what bears on causation, condition and prognosis, and parking the rest — while keeping the full record one click away.

Med-Legal builds all three automatically, then hands it to a fee-earner to review and approve. The reading is done for you; the judgment stays with you.