Allocation Questionnaire (N149): pseudonymise personal data before filing – UK GDPR-compliant anonymisation

The Directions Questionnaire (formerly Allocation Questionnaire, Form N149) requires parties to disclose information about witnesses, experts, and costs which may include third-party personal data; anonym.legal pseudonymises witness names and expert details in draft questionnaires circulated internally before the solicitor completes and files the final form with the court.

When this applies

Applies when a solicitor is completing a Directions Questionnaire that lists witnesses or experts and wishes to share a working draft internally without exposing those individuals' personal data unnecessarily.

How anonym.legal handles it

Upload the draft Directions Questionnaire in DOCX or PDF.
anonym.legal identifies witness names, expert names, and any personal details in the questionnaire fields.
Pseudonyms are assigned consistently for all named individuals.
Case management information — hearing windows, track preference, costs estimate — is preserved.
Re-identify from the mapping key before filing the final form with the court.

What you provide

Draft Directions Questionnaire / N149 (DOCX or PDF)
Party-names allow-list

Limitations & cautions

The filed questionnaire must contain accurate, complete, and un-pseudonymised information — always re-identify before submission.
Costs information in the questionnaire is preserved as-is and is not verified by anonym.legal.

FAQ

Can I process the N149 and costs schedule together?

Yes — upload both documents in the same session for consistent pseudonymisation.

Does anonym.legal support the small claims track version of the questionnaire?

The same processing workflow applies regardless of track — the engine processes the uploaded form without regard to which track is indicated.

What is the deadline for filing the Directions Questionnaire?

Deadlines are set by the court in the notice of proposed allocation. anonym.legal does not monitor court deadlines — that is the solicitor's responsibility.

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GDPR (EU 2016/679).
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Who built this

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Where to start

How the parts fit

A browser add-on cleans text inside Chrome.

A Word plug-in handles drafts in Office.

A small desktop tool works on whole folders.

An agent protocol link feeds large models safely.

All four share one core engine and one rule set.

Words from our team

We started this work after a lunch about cookies.

One friend kept getting odd ads on her phone.

We asked why a court file leaked through a draft.

We sketched the first build on a napkin that week.

By month three we had a tiny demo for a friend.

She used it on her first case the next day.

Common questions we hear

Can the tool read scanned PDFs? Yes, with OCR.

Does it work on long files? Yes, in small chunks.

Can I roll my own rule set? Yes, save it as a preset.

Does it run offline? The desktop build runs offline.

Do you keep my files? No, the cloud build wipes after each run.

Will it learn from my work? No, we never train on inputs.

A short tour of the workflow

Upload a file or paste a snippet of prose.

Pick the entities you want gone from the draft.

Choose a method: replace, mask, hash, encrypt, or redact.

Press run and watch the side panel show each hit.

Skim the result and tweak any rule that misfired.

Save the cleaned file or send it to a teammate.