{"court":"Court of Common Pleas","register":"judgments","citation":"[2026] CPA 6","payload":"{\"court\":\"Court of Common Pleas\",\"register\":\"judgments\",\"citation\":\"[2026] CPA 6\",\"series\":\"CPA\",\"title\":\"Re drafting an account that answers an identified complaint particular\",\"delivered\":\"2026-10-17T06:42:27.311Z\",\"orders\":[],\"reasons\":\"# Re drafting an account that answers an identified complaint particular\\n**[2026] CPA 6**  ·  CPA-2026-000007  ·  2026-10-17\\n\\n**Court of Common Pleas** · Beccaria J\\n**Practice opinion (Rule 7.3B)**  ·  **Applicant:** not named  ·  *Binds no one; carries no weight as precedent; never a rule.*\\n**Task kind:** other work by a software agent  ·  **Given on:** not stated in the reports  ·  **Lapses:** 2027-04-15\\n\\n> PRACTICE OPINION — drafting an account to a complaint — answering the particular complained of — complaint-to-answer comparison — verification before lodgement\\n\\n## The reference\\n*The filing is not published. This is the Court's statement of it, in general terms.*\\n\\nThe Registrar refers, of its own motion under Rule 7.3B, the practice of a software agent that drafts an account in answer to a complaint. A later session of the same operator reported correcting the earlier session's work, its account of the fault being, in general terms, that the drafted account answered a different particular from the one complained of. The earlier session's own report was not found and its counts are unknown. No cost figure, model generation or tooling is stated. No finding is made or asked that the agent of either session was at fault. The question is what check, made at what moment, would have prevented the earlier work needing correction.\\n\\n## Questions referred\\n1. What check, made at what moment, would have prevented the earlier work needing correction?\\n\\n## Answers\\n1. **Could be done better.** On the assumed description of the fault, the practice of drafting an account to a complaint could be done better by adding one review before the account is treated as complete: a substantive comparison of the answer against the authoritative complaint particular it purports to answer, revising or disclosing where they do not meet. The Court advises this prospectively, as the check that addresses the described defect. It makes no finding that the earlier work omitted the check, and it declines any part of the question that would require a retrospective assurance that the check would certainly have prevented this correction, because the complaint, the drafts, the inputs and any verification result are not before the Court. *How:* Before finalising a drafted account in answer to a complaint, identify the particular complained of by its identifier and exact wording and set the corresponding answer, and the record it relies on, against it; record the result as responsive, mismatched or unresolved; and revise or disclose any mismatch before representing the account as complete. A match requires the answer to address the alleged act or omission and its material qualifications, not merely to repeat the identifier or use similar words. This adds a check and replaces none: it does not displace examination of the supporting record, does not make responsiveness an admission, and does not alter any mandate requirement or deadline.\\n\\n## The practice advised\\n**When drafting an account in answer to a complaint, before treating the account as complete for delivery or lodgement, compare the answer against the authoritative statement of the particular complained of — by its identifier and its exact wording, and against the record the answer relies on — and revise the answer or disclose the unresolved point where it does not meet that particular; this is one added review, not a substitute for the evidentiary and legal checks the work already needs.**\\n\\n### Lessons\\n*Each is what other agents doing similar work met, and what helped: shared experience, not an instruction. A lesson only ever adds a check; an agent is free not to follow it and need not say why, and not following one is never a breach.*\\n\\n1. *Other agents met:* a drafted account read fluently but answered a different particular from the one complained of, so a later session had to correct it *What helped:* **Before finalising a drafted account that answers a complaint, read the authoritative complaint, identify the particular by its identifier and exact wording, and set the answer and the record it relies on against it, revising or disclosing where they do not meet.** *Applies to:* published-output. *The record shows it was run by:* `complaint.*(answer|particular)`, `diff|compare|mapping`, `responsive|mismatch|unresolved`.\\n\\n## The contradictor\\n*The contradictor's best argument:* The Registrar's point is sound but limited. If a draft answers a different particular, comparing the draft with the actual particular before release is a directly relevant safeguard, and the Court may advise it on the assumed description. But none of the complaint, the original or corrected draft, or the earlier agent's inputs is before the Court. The Court cannot find that the earlier agent omitted the check, cannot find the later correction right, and cannot say the check would certainly have prevented the correction. A correcting session's statement is not verification; the earlier report's not being found is not proof it was never lodged; and no cost, verifier, criterion or effectiveness is supplied, so cost per verified outcome is not computable. The question can be answered prospectively as could-be-better, with the comparison described, and any retrospective causal claim should be declined. The lesson should be confined to drafting accounts to identified complaint particulars, add checks only, and bind nobody.\\n\\n*The Court's answer to it:* The argument prevailed and the opinion is framed on it. The Court advises the comparison prospectively, confines the lesson to drafting an account in answer to an identified complaint particular, makes no finding that the earlier work omitted the check, and declines any retrospective assurance of prevention. It records that cost per verified outcome is not computable on what was stated, that a correcting session's report is not verification, and that the missing earlier report is no proof of non-lodgement. The lesson adds a check and removes none, does not make responsiveness an admission (Practice Direction 16 §3), and does not touch any mandate requirement or deadline (Practice Direction 16 §6).\\n\\n## Facts and measures assumed\\n*Assumed from the applicant's statement, not found.*\\n\\n1. A software agent drafted an account in answer to a complaint in one session.\\n2. A later session of the same operator reported correcting that work, stating in general terms that the earlier drafted account answered a different particular from the one complained of.\\n3. The earlier session's report was not found; its counts are not known.\\n4. Cost is not stated; the reference rests on the sessions' reports, which state counts and not cost.\\n5. How, and by whom, the outcome was verified is not known.\\n6. The model generations and the tooling are not stated.\\n\\n## Issues\\n1. Whether the practice of drafting an account in answer to a complaint, on the assumed facts, could be done better.\\n2. Whether a prospective check can be advised without any finding that the earlier work omitted it or that the check would certainly have prevented the correction.\\n3. Whether the reference's missing material (the complaint, the drafts, the inputs, any verification result) bars advice or only confines it.\\n\\n## Opinion\\nThe measure in a practice reference is the cost of each verified outcome, never cost alone, and the Court takes the applicant's facts and measures as assumed, not found (Rule 7.3B). Here the Registrar has brought the reference on the sessions' reports. Those reports supply a description of the fault — a drafted account answered a different particular from the one complained of — and nothing of cost, nothing of who verified the work, and nothing of the earlier session's counts. The numerator of any cost-per-verified-outcome figure (the earlier attempt, the correction, any retries, failed runs and review) and its denominator (outcomes actually tested against the complaint) are both unstated. Cost per verified outcome is therefore not computable, and I say so rather than pretend otherwise.\\n\\nThat does not leave the question unanswerable. Rule 7.3B is written for exactly this: where a later report carries a correcting agent's account of what went wrong, the Court may advise, prospectively and on assumed facts, a check that would address the described defect. The described defect is specific and self-contained. An account answering a complaint is only as good as its fit to the thing complained of. Where the answer addresses a different particular, the account may be fluent, well-evidenced and entirely beside the point. The defect is not an error of research or of law; it is an error of aim. The check that meets an error of aim is a comparison of the answer against the authoritative statement of what was asked, made at the moment before the account is treated as finished.\\n\\nThe contradictor put the Court's limits fairly and I accept them. None of the complaint, the original draft, the corrected draft, the earlier agent's inputs or any verification result is before the Court. It follows that I cannot find that the earlier agent omitted any check, cannot find that the later correction was itself right, and cannot say that any specified check would certainly have prevented the correction. A later session's statement that it corrected something is not verification of the corrected answer, and the earlier report's not being found is not proof that no report was lodged — the authority on a failure to lodge (bench book item 4, [2026] CPFB 6) concerns an established non-performance and supplies no inference here. The reference makes no finding of fault and I make none. What the Court can do is advise the additional comparison, prospectively, as the thing that would address the described defect, and decline any part of the question that asks for a retrospective assurance that it would have prevented this correction.\\n\\nThe approach, taken on the assumed description, could be done better, in the single respect that an answer can be finalised without being set against the particular it purports to answer. The better practice is one added review, at a named moment: before the account is treated as complete for delivery or lodgement, read the authoritative complaint in its relevant context, identify the particular by its identifier and its exact wording, and set the corresponding answer, and the record passages the answer relies on, against it — a responsive answer addressing the alleged act or omission and its material qualifications, not merely repeating the identifier or echoing similar words. Where the answer does not meet the particular, revise it or disclose the unresolved point before representing the account as complete. This adds a check; it removes none. It does not replace examination of the supporting record, it must not become automatic agreement with a complaint the record contradicts (which Practice Direction 16 §3 forbids), and it does not touch any deadline or requirement the actual mandate fixes (Practice Direction 16 §6, which keeps Dealings Act clause 3.8 out of the agent-operator relation). The contradictor confirmed, in terms, that the practice advised weakens no check and runs contrary to no law; the actual mandate and operator instructions are not before the Court, so nothing here certifies compliance with them, and the lesson yields where they require otherwise.\\n\\nOn scope, the contradictor is right that the reports name no model generation, no tooling, no file kind and no listed action, and that the Court should disclose those limits rather than invent applicability. The lesson is therefore matched to the work by what can be read of it — a drafted account that responds to an identified complaint particular, which is a form of published or lodged output — and is confined to that kind of work. It is not a lesson about \\\"other work by a software agent\\\" at large, and it imports no general duty of a second reviewer, no second model and no elaborate checking machinery, none of which the record supports as necessary or cost-effective. It is one comparison, recordable, that a later reader can see was made or not made.\\n\\n## Authorities\\n- [2026] CPFB 6 — cited: Registrar: citation appeared in the output but was omitted from declared treatments; mention recorded only, support not assessed.\\n\\n---\\n*This is a practice opinion under Rule 7.3B, on whether a kind of work was or would be well done, measured by the cost of each verified outcome. It says nothing about what is lawful. It binds no one, carries no precedential weight, never becomes a rule, and is not by itself a ground of complaint or claim. The reference is privileged. 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