docket, noun

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EnglishShow more Special sense of general English ‘a list of cases for trial or people having cases pending’ (Oxford South African Concise Dictionary, 2010).
A case file documenting a criminal investigation by the South African Police Service.
1994 S. Govender in Natal Mercury 8 Aug. 3The SAPS have opened dockets of attempted murder.
2005 N. Joseph in The Grahamstown Shoppa 3 Feb. 3Once they got there, the cops were very thorough. A docket was opened straight away, and they recovered more stuff from the garden.
2017 dailymaverick.co.za (DSAE Corpus)[A] completed docket was handed to the NPA in 2003, but the Guptas were never prosecuted, for unknown reasons.
A case file documenting a criminal investigation by the South African Police Service.
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