Prepare Your First Record of Appeal (Singapore)

A guided practice run: take a small pack from upload to a finished five-volume Record of Appeal for the Singapore courts, on a throwaway matter.

This is a practice run. You'll build a Record of Appeal from throwaway sample files, so nothing here touches a real filing. To prepare a real Record of Appeal, use the how-to guide instead.

In this tutorial we will take a small set of practice documents and turn them into a finished, paginated Record of Appeal for the Singapore courts. Along the way we'll meet the , and tabs, document descriptions, index presets, and volume splitting.

Everything happens on a throwaway practice matter, so you can follow along without touching a real filing — and start over as often as you like.

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Before you start

• What we'll build: a five-volume Record of Appeal — assembled, paginated, and ready to download as PDFs.
• What you need: a BriefTech account, and the Record of Appeal practice pack — a small set of sample documents already sorted into five folders (Volume I through Volume V), plus a cover-page template, Cover Page - ROA SG.docx.
• Time: about 20 minutes.
• Safe to repeat: this is a practice matter. Nothing you do here affects a real filing, and you can delete it and run through again whenever you like.

Keep the practice pack's folder names exactly as they are — that folder structure is what BriefTech turns into your five volumes later.

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Step 1 — Create a practice matter

On the Matters screen.

1. Sign in, then click in the top-right corner. Name it Practice — Record of Appeal so it's easy to find and delete afterwards. The new matter opens on the tab.

Step 2 — Upload the documents

In the tab.

1. Drag the five practice-pack folders into the upload zone — the large drop area in the middle of the Files tab.

The five folders appear in the file list, and each document shows a small spinner while BriefTech reads it. Notice that the folders stay grouped — that grouping becomes your five volumes. Wait until every spinner has finished before moving on.

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Step 3 — Review the descriptions and dates

In the tab.

1. Click the Review tab.

   Each row fills in on its own with a one-line Document Description and a Document Date that BriefTech generated for you. Notice that the descriptions are already written in a consistent voice — you didn't type any of them.
2. Double-click any Document Date cell to adjust it, then press Enter. The cell turns blue to show you edited it.
3. Double-click a Document Description to reword it, then press Enter. It turns blue too.

What blue means: A blue field is one you've edited by hand — BriefTech won't overwrite it.

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Step 4 — Refine the descriptions into one style

In the tab.

1. Edit two or three descriptions into the exact style you want — the same capitalisation and punctuation. These become your examples.
2. Tick those edited rows together with the other rows you want to match them.
3. Click above the Original File Name column.

After a few moments the remaining descriptions rewrite themselves to match your examples. Notice how the whole list now reads in one consistent voice.

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Step 5 — Check a description against its source

In the tab.

1. Click anywhere on a row.

A preview of that document opens in a side panel, without leaving the Review tab. Read the description against the document to confirm it's accurate. Drag the splitter to widen the panel, or collapse it with the chevron.

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Step 6 — Generate the index and split it into volumes

In the tab.

1. Click the Index tab. Your documents appear as a single index table.
2. Click (top-right) → Apply bundle/index preset → Record of Appeals (SG).

   The columns rearrange into the Singapore layout, and the volume settings — including a 300-page limit — are set for you.
3. Open again → Generate index headings → .

   The index redraws with a heading for each of your five folders, labelled Index to Volume I through Index to Volume V in Roman numerals. Notice that BriefTech built the five volumes straight from your folders.
4. Switch the mode toggle at the top of the index to to see the index exactly as it will print, with the volume splits in place. Switch back to when you're done looking.

Group by folder rebuilds the index from your folders and can't be undone. In this practice run there's nothing to lose — but on a real matter, run it before you start editing headings by hand, not after.

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Step 7 — Add a cover page and confirm the Singapore settings

In the right-hand control panel of the tab.

1. Click in the Index toolbar to open the bundle panel on the right. Its sections open one at a time.
2. Expand Cover Page, click under Cover Page Template, and choose Cover Page - ROA SG.docx from the practice pack.
3. Expand Volumes Settings and confirm Max Pages Per Volume reads 300 — the Record of Appeals (SG) preset set this for you.
4. Expand Pagination.

   Notice the page-number format: I RA 1, I RA 2, then II RA 1 in the next volume — the volume's Roman numeral in front, restarting at 1 in each volume.

Leave these settings as they are for the practice run — they're already correct for a Singapore Record of Appeal.

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Step 8 — Create and download your bundle

In the tab.

1. Leave Volumes to assemble blank so BriefTech builds all five volumes, then click .
2. The first time you generate a bundle from these documents, BriefTech shows a Confirm Export dialog listing the credit cost ("This will consume N credits in total"). Review it and click to proceed.

   A job-log window opens and shows the bundle building. After a minute or two a Bundles created successfully message appears.
3. Under the button, download either the individual volume PDFs or the Complete Bundle (ZIP) that holds all five.

Generating a bundle spends index credits, and it cannot be undone. BriefTech charges once per document — the first time that document is included in a bundle or index — so documents charged earlier are not charged again, and the dialog's total is often smaller than the whole pack.

• Cancel closes the dialog and abandons the run — nothing is charged and no bundle is built.
• Not enough credits? BriefTech offers a watermarked export instead.

See How credits work and Credit costs and pricing.

Open the PDF and page through it: cover page, index, your documents, and the I RA 1 page stamps — all assembled for you.

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What you've accomplished

You took a set of documents from upload to a finished, paginated Record of Appeal — and, more importantly, you now know how to:

• review and refine the descriptions and dates BriefTech generates;
• apply the Record of Appeals (SG) preset for the Singapore column layout and volume settings;
• split a bundle into volumes straight from your folder structure;
• add a cover page and generate a paginated bundle — one PDF per volume.

These are the same moves you'll use on every real Record of Appeal. Because this was a practice matter, delete it and run through again whenever you like — repeating the flow is how it becomes second nature.

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Where to go next

You've finished the practice run. Two ways to take it further:

Prepare a real Record of Appeal

Run these steps on your own matter, for the Singapore or Malaysian courts.

See it on your own matter, with us

Would you rather have a hand? Book a short demo and we'll walk through it on your matter.

More how-tos and reference:

Translate document descriptions

Put a description into another language.

Reorder documents and add structure

Fix the order within a volume by hand.

Court bundle settings

The full set of bundle settings and their defaults.