Court Bundle Checker

Name: Court Bundle Checker
Price: 4.99 GBP

Pick the court you are filing in, then pick your bundle PDF. We read it inside your browser and tell you which of that court's published rules it does not meet — with the rule quoted and the page numbers listed.

Your bundle never leaves your device. The PDF is opened by code running in this browser tab. There is no address on this website that accepts a file, so there is nothing for us to receive, store or lose. Court bundles routinely contain a child's name, a diagnosis or a financial disclosure — that is exactly why this tool was built to work this way.

1. Which court?

This is the first question because it changes the answer. There are at least seven UK bundle rulebooks and they contradict each other.

2. Your bundle PDF

Nothing is uploaded. Large bundles take longer because every page is examined.

Choose your bundle PDFor drop it here

The check is free, and so are the first 3 points it finds. The full report, £4.99, adds every other point with its page numbers, how to fix each one, and every rule your bundle met: pick your court to start.

This is a format check against published court rules. It is not legal advice, it does not tell you whether your case is ready, and no outcome is guaranteed. The rules are subject to any direction a judge gives in your own case. Rules for all 10 courts first checked against the published sources on 15 August 2026, and re-checked on 3 November 2026 wherever the source could still be read; each court's page marks any rule that was not. See every court's rules, quoted in full. Terms · Privacy

What this checks, and what it cannot

Everything below is read straight out of the PDF: the number of pages, the file size, the page labels, the printed page numbers, the bookmarks and whether they resolve, the links on the index, the text layer on every page, image-only pages, page rotation, page size, the opening zoom, image resolution, font size, embedded metadata, white text and duplicate pages.

What it cannot do is exercise judgement. Whether a document is “significant”, whether a bookmark description is good enough, whether a page belongs in the bundle at all, whether you met your deadlines — those appear as points to review, never as failures. That is deliberate. A checker that fails you for something it cannot actually measure is worse than no checker.

No Civil Procedure Rule anywhere mandates bookmarks, OCR or hyperlinks in an electronic civil bundle. Those requirements come from judicial guidance and court guides, which a judge may vary in your case.
The enacted PD27A says index entries must be "added to" the indexed document, not "hyperlinked to". We treat hyperlinking as best practice for family bundles and label it as such. Published commentary usually says "hyperlinked" because it is quoting the 2021 guidance, which no longer applies to family proceedings.
PD27A 4.8 says separate guidance will set out the content and structure of bundles HM Courts and Tribunals Service prepares itself. We had not found it published on 5 November 2026.
The 50MB figure in the Court of Appeal Guide is guide-level practice, not law.
Employment Tribunal Presidential Guidance is something a tribunal must have regard to. It does not bind in the way a practice direction does. (Its link returned page not found on 3 November 2026, so this was not re-checked.)
This tool checks the format of a PDF. It cannot tell you whether a document belongs in the bundle, whether a bookmark description is good enough, or whether your case is ready. Those are judgement calls and we report them as such.

Sources named above: First-tier Tribunal (Special Educational Needs and Disability) (GOV.UK)