This short study asks how public records written for people who go to court without a lawyer frame the movement of a court paper, from one side of a case to the other or from paper to an electronic file: what do they treat as showing that a paper arrived, and whose arrival do they count? It reads the fifteen questions of PRO SE's Documents section whose English wording names service or electronic litigation. PRO SE, a studio of the RISCON family, marks every record synthetic and publishes its library as general information, not legal advice.
The records never ask whether anyone read what was sent. They make a paper's arrival a matter of another paper: a service record, a notice to the court, a report, a registered screen. They set the person who actually received or filed beside the person the record names, and keep paper and the original inside electronic filing. And 14 of their 15 conditions for looking again turn on a new or changed record, none on what a person learned. Read beside the debate over what documents do and the debate over online courts, the records show written help teaching a person without a lawyer to see a court paper the way the file sees it. The contribution concerns the form of the records, not the law.