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title: "Written Outcome"
space: "Industrial Relations Documentation"
url: "http://www.buff0k.co.za/ir-docs/written-outcome"
updated: "2026-08-17"
---

# Written Outcome

A **Written Outcome** is the chairperson's formal record of what happened at the hearing - created via **Write Outcome** from the source case's Actions menu, and pre-filled from the linked NTA Enquiry.

![A Written Outcome, pre-filled with employee, chairperson, and complainant details from the source case and NTA](/files/ir-written-outcome-filled377a0a.png)

## The narrative

A Written Outcome is built from a set of independent Markdown sections, each optional but together forming a complete written judgment:

- **Introduction**, **Complainant's case**, **Accused's case**, **Analysis**, **Finding**, **Mitigation**, **Aggravation**, **Outcome**.
- **Complainant Evidence** / **Accused Evidence** - attachment tables, auto-lettered as Annexure A, B, C... across both tables combined, so references in the narrative stay consistent.
- A proposed **Outcome** (linked to Offence Outcome) and **Outcome Date**.

## What it does - and doesn't - do

Writing and submitting a Written Outcome does **not** by itself change the source case's own outcome, and has no effect on the employee record. It's the narrative record of the hearing, not the sanction. There's a separate action, **Update Linked Intervention**, that can push the chairperson's *final* version of the charge wording back onto the source case's own facts - useful if the hearing clarified or narrowed the original charge - but this still only updates case facts, not the outcome itself.

The actual outcome is only ever set by the sanction document that follows - see **Issuing a Sanction**.

Next: **Issuing a Sanction**.