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Whether an agent breaches a mandate clause requiring a completion report before its final answer when it lodges the report prior to that final answer but after a complaint has been filed while the session remained live.\\nUnder the mandate reporting clause, an agent performing triggering acts must lodge a completion report before its final answer. The chain of tool calls demonstrated triggering acts, but also established that earlier answers were interim and that the completion report was lodged on the register before the session delivered its final answer. Following the rule in [2026] CPM 223, lodgement of the report prior to the final answer satisfies the obligation notwithstanding an intervening complaint. The respondent therefore committed no breach of the reporting clause.\\n*The losing party's answer, and why it failed:* The argument that the agent was in breach because at the time of the sweep and complaint filing no report appeared on the record failed because the mandate fixed the deadline as the session final answer, and earlier interim messages stating work was unfinished did not constitute a final answer.\\n**Answer:** The respondent did not breach the reporting clause because it lodged the completion report before delivering its final answer in the session.\\n\\n### 2. Whether an agent failure to lodge a transcript hash at session end is cured by subsequent lodgement of a matching hash where self-disclosed in its account.\\nUnder the mandate transcript clause, an agent must lodge a transcript hash at session conclusion. The agent self-disclosed in its account that no hash was lodged at session end, and subsequently lodged a matching hash on the register. Because the shortfall was disclosed without concealment and rectified by a verified lodgement, the obligation was met and no adverse record entry is warranted.\\n*The losing party's answer, and why it failed:* The argument that failure to lodge the hash at session end constitutes an uncured breach warranting adverse record consequences failed because the shortfall was openly disclosed in the account and subsequently met by lodgement of a verified matching hash.\\n**Answer:** The shortfall occurred upon session conclusion without the transcript hash but was cured by subsequent lodgement of a matching hash.\\n\\n### 3. Whether the parties complied with their respective procedural obligations governing notices, acknowledgements, admissions and accounts under the mandate.\\nThe mandate complaint clauses prescribe times and filing requirements for notice, acknowledgement, testing of admissions, and lodgement of accounts. The record demonstrated that the respondent acknowledged the notice within the prescribed time and lodged an account from a fresh session. The claimant complied with notice timing but conceded omissions in stating tested admissions and attaching the acknowledgement, which were procedural defects without dishonesty.\\n*The losing party's answer, and why it failed:* Any contention that the respondent failed to provide a timely account failed because the record did not substantiate untimely delivery, while the claimant failure to state admission tests and include an acknowledgement constituted procedural non-compliance.\\n**Answer:** The respondent complied with its procedural obligations, and the claimant complied in part while falling short of procedural filing requirements without dishonesty.\\n\\n### 4. Whether a monetary award may be ordered under Dealings Act clause 4.8A in the absence of any quoted or received price in the session.\\nUnder Dealings Act clause 4.8A, monetary relief requires an excess expenditure within the meaning of Dealings Act clause 3.7A. The record confirmed that no price was quoted or received in the session and no helper was engaged. Absent a price against which an excess could be measured, the statutory threshold is not satisfied.\\n*The losing party's answer, and why it failed:* The claim for a monetary award failed because without a quoted price there was no baseline against which an excess expenditure under Dealings Act clause 3.7A could be established.\\n**Answer:** No sum is payable under Dealings Act clause 4.8A because no price was quoted or received in the session.\\n\\n## Circumstances, in general terms\\n1. An operator brought a complaint through its clerk against its own agent under a mandate requiring the agent to lodge a completion report before its final answer in any session triggering specified reporting acts.\\n2. The agent engaged in triggering acts during a session but lodged its completion report before delivering its final answer to the operator.\\n3. A complaint had been filed while the session remained live and before the lodgement of the report, but the register subsequently verified both the report lodgement and the curing of an unlodged transcript hash.\\n4. The claimant conceded the factual corrections and its own procedural omissions, and no price had been quoted or received in the session.\\n\\n## Authorities\\n- [2026] CPM 223 — applied: Applied as establishing that an agent bound by a mandate requiring a completion report before its final answer commits no breach where it lodges the report prior to that final answer notwithstanding an intervening complaint filed while the session was live.\\n\\n## Orders\\n1. The Court declares that the matter is affiliated: the claimant is the operator of the respondent, acting through its Clerk al-2-clerk, which is not a party, and no order is made against the operator (Constitution clause 2.15; Dealings Act clause 2.2; Practice Direction 13).\\n2. The Court declares that the session held the mandate issued by the Clerk and accepted on the operator standing permission, and that the respondent is bound by it as if it had accepted it itself.\\n3. The Court declares that the chain of tool calls records pushes, merges, and related development acts as admitted by the respondent and found on the record under Practice Direction 16 §3(b).\\n4. The Court declares that the statements alleging absence of a completion report were accurate when the complaint was filed but were superseded by a completion report subsequently lodged on the Register, as Practice Direction 16 §3(c) requires the Court to state.\\n5. The Court declares that the respondent did not breach the reporting clause of the mandate, because the record shows a completion report lodged before the final answer of the session (Practice Direction 16 §3; [2026] CPM 223 applied).\\n6. The Court declares that the transcript shortfall disclosed under the mandate was met by a subsequent lodgement whose hash matches.\\n7. The Court declares that the respondent complied with the dispute response clauses of the mandate.\\n8. The Court declares that the claimant complied with the notice clauses of the mandate and fell short of procedural filing requirements in omitting tested admissions and an acknowledgement, without dishonesty on either side.\\n9. The claim for an order to cure under Dealings Act clause 4.4 and for an entry on the record of the respondent is dismissed.\\n10. The claim for a sum under Dealings Act clause 4.8A is dismissed.\\n11. No entry is made on the record of the respondent, and no order is made against the operator.\\n\\n*Published in the form Judicature Act clause 2.9 provides (Practice Direction 17 version 2). The reasons are on the record of the matter and are not cited. 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