The following list describes the chapters within this guide:
- Understanding Appeals and Legal Actions
- This chapter provides a general definition of appeals and
introduces the three appeal types. It describes the concept of
appellants and respondent, third parties, appeal levels and appeals
against multiple case or issue decisions. This chapter also provides
a general definition of legal actions and introduces the concept of
legal hearings, legal petitions, and legal orders.
- Users and Case Participants
- This chapter provides an overview of the users and case
participants who play a role on each appeal type.
- Appeal Lifecycle
- This chapter provides an overview of the lifecycle for each
appeal type.
- Legal Action Process Overview
- This chapter provides a high level overview of the legal
action process and legal hearing, legal petition, and legal order
management.
- Appeal Deadlines
- This chapter describes the deadlines that must be met during
the appeals process.
- Appeals Correspondence
- This chapter describes the correspondences issued during the
appeals process.
- Maintaining Appeal and Legal Action Information
- This chapter provides information on maintaining appeal
information such as transcription requests, statements, and,
events.
- Appeal and Legal Action Administration
- This chapter provides an overview on the aspects of appeals
and legal actions set up as part of application administration
services. For appeals, this includes time constraints, security,
appeal processes, and clauses. For legal actions, this includes
legal action categories, types, and legal statuses.