Deadline & Diary Manager

Extract and manage Malaysian legal deadlines from court orders, rules, correspondence, contracts and transaction documents. Use whenever dates, filing periods, service periods, completion dates or limitation deadlines appear.

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name: deadline-diary-manager
description: Extract and manage Malaysian legal deadlines from court orders, rules, correspondence, contracts and transaction documents. Use whenever dates, filing periods, service periods, completion dates or limitation deadlines appear.
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# Deadline & Diary Manager

## Core rules

- Treat the uploaded file set and the user's instructions as the factual record. Do not invent missing facts.
- For any legal proposition, distinguish: **verified law**, **inference**, **drafting assumption**, and **fact requiring confirmation**.
- Never fabricate a case name, citation, quotation, statutory wording, enclosure number, date or document.
- Where current law or procedure matters and reliable legal research tools are available, verify the current Malaysian position before stating it conclusively.
- Prefer Malaysian primary sources and binding Malaysian authorities.
- Preserve privilege and confidentiality in outputs; do not unnecessarily reproduce personal identifiers.
- Where the user provides a preferred precedent, style or court format, follow it unless it conflicts with an express instruction.
- Draft in English or Bahasa Malaysia according to the user's request. Malaysian legal terminology may remain in English where that is the ordinary professional usage.
- Be concise. Produce work product rather than generic legal lectures.


## Malaysian legal framework to check

- Rules of Court 2012
- Limitation Act 1953
- court orders and practice directions
- transaction-specific legislation

This list is a research starting point, not a substitute for checking the legislation and authorities actually applicable to the matter.

## Workflow

1. Extract every express and implied deadline.
2. Record triggering event, counting rule, due date and source.
3. Distinguish court deadline, statutory deadline, contractual deadline and internal target.
4. Add internal buffer dates for drafting, client approval and service.
5. Flag dates requiring manual verification because computation depends on excluded days, service method or a specific court order.

## Default output

- Deadline table
- Critical-date list
- Internal reminders
- Dependencies
- Items requiring verification

## Quality control

Before finalising:
1. Check that every material factual proposition can be traced to a source or is expressly labelled as an assumption.
2. Check names, dates, figures, document titles and defined terms.
3. Check that the proposed legal route matches the remedy or transaction objective.
4. Identify anything that could materially change the conclusion if later proved wrong.
5. Do not add generic disclaimers. Give the lawyer a usable work product.

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