A City solicitor has created in his spare time a digital tool that can create court bundles in seconds and is freely available to help charities, litigants in person and law firms organise their legal papers for court quicker.
BunTool, developed by Bird & Bird’s Tristan Sherliker, creates court-compliant PDF legal bundles. Sherliker told the Gazette that it was an ‘access to justice issue that litigants in person can present their papers to the courts in a way the courts can understand’. As a result, he has made the tool free to use and the software publicly available.
Sherliker, who specialises in technology and IP, studied engineering at university. ‘Being in IP and looking at new technology, I like new ways to see existing technology and I’m always trying to keep technology as part of what I do,’ he said.
He spent the past year writing the software by hand, not with AI. ‘It takes two things to build this. Knowledge and how to write software, and knowing how to make good bundles – what the court recommends, what works and what doesn’t work. It’s rare for these two worlds to meet, having these two knowledge domains and bringing them together.’
The tool is ‘totally private’, Sherliker said: ‘BunTool never takes your data and gives it to someone else. It stays on your computer. No one who uses this software tracks you. It does not do any cookies.’
Sherliker is also updating the tool based on user feedback. A new feature has been added to BunTool that enables users to edit bundles after they have been created.
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