Overview#
Commission work is different from ordinary case management. It involves formal terms of reference, disclosure obligations, protected witnesses, document-heavy evidence, cross-agency contributions, public accountability, and a strict record of who knew what and when. The Commission of Investigation Case Workspace gives investigators and legal teams a governed place to manage that work without mixing it into general operational case files.
The workspace brings together intake, assignment, evidence preview, profile briefing, disclosure preparation, export handling, access tracking, and case timeline review. Every action is filtered through case visibility rules and clearance checks so sensitive material remains controlled while still supporting fast collaboration inside the authorised team.
Key Features#
- Commission-Specific Intake: Capture the referral, scope, case type, source, urgency, and initial handling restrictions at the start of the matter.
- Case Team Assignment: Assign investigators, reviewers, counsel, subject matter experts, and external participants with role-specific access.
- Evidence and Attachment Workspace: Preview documents, OCR output, images, and supporting files inside the case while preserving provenance and access logging.
- Profile Briefing: Generate structured briefings for people, organisations, and entities linked to the commission file, with relationship context and risk notes.
- Disclosure Preparation: Assemble controlled export packages, track recipients, and preserve a record of disclosure status and access.
- Case Visibility Controls: Apply membership, clearance, and case-scope rules before evidence, profiles, downloads, or exports are shown.
- Audit-Ready Operations: Record intake, assignment, preview, export, and disclosure actions for legal review and independent oversight.
Use Cases#
- Public Inquiry Preparation: A commission receives a formal referral and needs to establish a case workspace with controlled evidence intake and a defensible access trail.
- Protected Witness Handling: Investigators manage witness-linked material under tighter visibility rules while still allowing approved counsel to review disclosure material.
- Document-Heavy Investigation: Analysts triage scanned correspondence, meeting records, emails, and reports in one workspace rather than managing separate file shares.
- Disclosure Review: Legal reviewers assemble export packages and confirm which recipients received or accessed each package.
- Independent Oversight: Oversight bodies inspect the audit record to confirm the commission followed its terms of reference and handling rules.
Integration#
The workspace connects to evidence management, OCR and transcription review, profile intelligence, entity relationship analysis, disclosure packaging, export review, case timeline, role-based access control, and immutable audit logging. It is designed to sit alongside general investigation management while adding the stricter governance required for commissions and inquiries.
Open Standards#
- W3C PROV-DM: Evidence, profile, disclosure, and export actions can be represented as provenance activities linked to actors and source material.
- PDF/A, ISO 19005: Long-term disclosure and briefing packages can be rendered in archival PDF format.
- RFC 3161 Time-Stamp Protocol: Export packages can be anchored with trusted timestamps for court and oversight review.
- FIPS 180-4, SHA-256: Evidence and export manifests use cryptographic hashes for tamper evidence.
- ISO 8601: Case events, disclosure dates, review deadlines, and access records use standard date-time formatting.
- OAuth 2.0 and JWT Bearer Token: Authenticated sessions carry the role and organisation context needed to enforce case visibility.
Last Reviewed: 2026-06-26 Last Updated: 2026-06-26