Whether it really downloads from the court portal, what happens to your documents and credentials, and what it is not.
Yes. You keep your case list in an Excel spreadsheet that the app hooks onto, and LHT DMS signs in to EFS with the credentials you have entered, works through your cases and saves every document filed in them — yours and the other side's — into the folder you have nominated for that case. Each file is renamed with its enclosure number and date. Run it again the next day and it takes only what is new. We are not aware of any other software that downloads directly from the Malaysian EFS portal.
Yes. The CE-File tab works the same way: claim references in your spreadsheet, filed documents downloading into your own folders, unlocked, OCR'd, compressed and renamed with the filing date and sequence number. The tab you see is set by the jurisdiction your licence is registered for — EFS (MY) for Malaysia, CE (GB) for England & Wales.
No, and it never will without you. The software brings the court file down to you and prepares your bundle so the portal will accept it. Uploading and filing stay entirely in your hands. Nothing is ever submitted to a court in your name.
Nowhere. Every document is processed on your own computer. The web tools on this site run inside your browser and upload nothing. The only network activity is the e-Filing download itself, which talks directly to the court's own servers from your machine, exactly as you would if you signed in by hand. Your portal username and password sit in your own spreadsheet on your own computer and are passed only to the court's portal. There is no cloud copy of your case file and nothing is routed through Legal Hi Tech.
That is what it is built for. A Peninsular Malaysian EFS bundle must be portrait, A4, unlocked, with annotations flattened, links cleared, and under 50 MB. Miss any one and the portal hands it back, which is how a single filing turns into a night of adjusting and re-uploading. LHT DMS applies every one of those requirements as the bundle is compiled, in one pass, and splits into volumes with continuous page numbering where a single file will not fit. We are not aware of any other software that produces an EFS-compliant bundle in a single pass.
Yes. CE-File will accept almost any document, but the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary's General Guidance on Electronic Court Bundles sets out what the bundle itself must look like. LHT DMS produces pagination running sequentially from page 1 so the number stamped on the page matches the PDF page number, an index hyperlinked to every document it lists, bookmarks carrying a short description and the page number, OCR on typed text, landscape pages left in landscape so they read left to right, and 150 DPI output below the 300 DPI ceiling. Several established products also produce compliant bundles for England & Wales; we make no claim to be alone there.
The courts set the limits, not the software, and they differ. Peninsular Malaysian courts accept up to 50 MB per document. Sabah and Sarawak courts limit it to 20 MB per document. England & Wales is generally 50 MB. LHT DMS compresses to 150 DPI as the bundle is built and, where it still will not fit, splits it into volumes with page numbering running continuously across them, so the bundle reads as one document even when it is filed as three. The threshold is a figure you set, so you can dial it to 20 MB for a Sabah or Sarawak filing, 50 MB elsewhere, or lower if your registry is stricter. The desktop app itself imposes no limit on file size or page count at any point.
It knows which is yours. EFS requires landscape pages turned to portrait and every hyperlink stripped out; the England & Wales guidance requires the opposite on both counts — landscape stays landscape, and the index must keep its hyperlinks. LHT DMS reads the jurisdiction your licence is registered for and arrives with those options already set the right way round. You can override any of them for a particular run.
No, despite the name. iManage, NetDocuments and M-Files are enterprise repositories: they store matters, enforce retention policies and provide audit trails and matter-centric governance. LHT DMS does none of that and is not trying to. It is a document production tool for litigators — it gets the court file in, and gets a compliant, bookmarked, paginated bundle out. If your firm runs iManage, LHT DMS sits alongside it rather than replacing it.
No. It does not run your matters, manage your diary, host hearings or provide a client portal. It does the document work around those systems. Firms using a litigation platform for case management commonly want something separate for bundle production; that is the gap this fills.
Yes, and it is one of the features advocates tend to notice first. Mark the places in your Word submission, skeleton argument or witness statement with a single underscore for documents or a double underscore for authorities, and LHT DMS writes the correct bundle page numbers into them, optionally with a p. or pp. prefix. When the bundle changes, you re-run it.
You do not rebuild the bundle. The Replace Pages tab takes the signed page, matched by the page number in its filename, and drops it into the finished bundle in place of the unsigned one. Pagination and bookmarks are preserved.
The desktop app is free for all of 2026, with unlimited files and unlimited file sizes. There is no account to create and no credit card to enter. You tell us the jurisdiction you practise in, and your download link and licence key arrive by email. The web tools on this site are free and need no licence at all.
Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit), or macOS 11 Big Sur or later including Apple Silicon. 4 GB of RAM minimum, 8 GB recommended, and about 1.5 GB of disk space. It is a desktop application, not a web service.
No. The desktop app has no limit on the number of files or on file size. The free web tools on this site do have limits, because they run inside your browser — the comparison table on the features page sets out exactly what each one can do.
LHT DMS was written by a ranked practising barrister active in Malaysia and in England & Wales, over more than a decade, as private tools for his own litigation practice. It was rebuilt as a single commercial suite much later and released publicly in 2026. It was in daily use in a working practice for years before it was ever offered for sale.
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