e-Filing rejected? The annexure objections and their cures

You filed before dinner and the portal said Defective before midnight. Or the file came back from physical scrutiny with the objection slip pinned to it. Either way: most of what appears on an objection list is clerical, not legal — and clerical defects have clerical cures. Here are the annexure objections that come up again and again, in plain words, with the cure for each.

"Pages not numbered" / "pagination incorrect"

Page numbers are the registry's one absolute. A large filing is forgiven a great deal — never its page numbers. The cure is a full, continuous re-pagination, cover to cover, with the index re-cut to the corrected pages so the two can never disagree.

One caution, learned the hard way by every chamber eventually: if a page must go in after numbering, the registry will not take an inserted 31A or 31B. 31 is just 31. The affected run is renumbered and the index re-cut — which is exactly the kind of work AIC exists to absorb.

"Annexures not as per index" / "index does not match"

The index says Annexure P-7 begins at page 143; the volume says otherwise. Or the index carries one title and the body of the pleading another. The cure is to rebuild the index from the draft — because the draft is the one document that already knows the right sequence and the exact title of every annexure. AIC reads your draft, sets each annexure against it, and reproduces your titles exactly, in your order. We flag; we never edit.

"Dim / illegible page" and "font size too small"

The two legibility objections, and one cure for both: the fair typed copy — the flagged page re-set in standard court typing, on the same page size and the same page number, so nothing cascades into the rest of the volume. It has a page of its own: Fair typed copy: curing the dim or illegible-page objection.

"PDF not OCR-searchable" / "bookmarks missing"

The e-filing era's own pair. Registries and portals increasingly want the record searchable, with each annexure bookmarked so the court can move through the file from its index. The cure is exactly that: the whole record made searchable, and every annexure bookmarked under the title your index gives it. Send the PDF as it was filed; it comes back searchable and bookmarked to its own index.

"Volumes wrongly divided" and other format defects

Page caps per volume. A4 compliance. An exhibit split across two volumes so the court must change books mid-document. The cure is a re-cut: volumes rebuilt to the cap, continuously paginated, whole exhibits kept whole.

What to send AIC

Two things: the objection list, and the filing as it sits — the e-filed PDF or the volumes.

AIC works through the clerical items on the list and returns the corrected record with a check-sheet of every change made, for your confirmation before anything is refiled. Anything on the list that is counsel's call — court fees, limitation, a defect in the vakalatnama — is left squarely with you: no advice, no computation, no opinion. The clerk, not counsel.

Refile windows are short, so the pace matters: usually minutes — depending on how fast you get back to us — but it can take up to a few hours depending on the size of the filing. You'll know the price before any work begins. And the files themselves are handled as everything at AIC is: read-only, processed on our own machines, deleted on completion.

Questions lawyers ask

The registry gave us only days to cure. Can AIC work inside that?

Name the deadline when you send the list. AIC works to beat it — and tells you upfront if it can't. The two honest pacers are your own confirmations and the size of the filing.

Can you guarantee the refiling clears scrutiny?

No — and be wary of anyone who says otherwise. Acceptance is always the registry's call. What AIC answers for is the work: every clerical defect on the list addressed, and every change recorded on the check-sheet for your confirmation, so you refile knowing exactly what changed and why.

Do you refile for us?

No. AIC prepares; the filing itself stays with your chamber. Your clerk goes to the counter — or your office to the portal — with a book in the state it should have been in the first time.

Our objection isn't on this page. What then?

Send the list as it stands. If an item is clerical, AIC cures it; if it belongs to counsel, AIC says so plainly and leaves it with you. Nothing is guessed at either end.

The objection list is already in your inbox

Send it across with the filing as it sits; AIC does the rest.