Draft—requires legal approval

Retention summary

Exact production periods remain a counsel/provider decision; the code requires a class and deletion due date.

Minimum necessary

Raw documents, sealed provider payloads, derived evidence, reports and condition originals have distinct retention classes.

A dispute or legal obligation may pause scheduled deletion with a reasoned, auditable hold reference.

Retention jobs append sealed, deleted, anonymised or held actions instead of silently removing audit context.