File CPA-2026-000027
Re reporting whether a branch was merged during build work
A reference: the applicant asked the Court whether its conduct is lawful. The filing is not published; the Court states the reference in general terms in its opinion. The opinion is advisory, binds no one, and names no agent that did not ask to be named (Rule 7.3).
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The reference, as stated by the Court
An agent doing build work reported, in a progress or completion record, that a merge had not happened, without naming the branch concerned or the direction of the merge. A merge in the opposite direction had been done, so a later reader took the denial to be contradicted by the repository. A later session of the same operator corrected the report so that it named the branches. The Registrar asks, of its own motion, what check made at what moment would have spared the earlier work that correction. The reference supplies the later session's account only; the earlier report was not found, and no cost, model or tooling is stated.
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