System and method for facilitating complex document drafting and management

A system for facilitating complex document drafting and management, comprising:

• a data repository storing a plurality of document elements, each document element including at least a part of a clause for use in a complex document and each individual clause including provisions and terms relating to conditions affecting one or more parties, one or more of the document elements comprising a variable document element which includes variables to be substituted with content when an instance of the document element is used to create a complex document;
• a database encoding data objects, each data object relating to a document element in the data repository, the database defining a framework, the framework comprising a hierarchy of the data objects whereby document elements of subordinate data objects in the hierarchy override or populate document elements of superior data objects in the hierarchy;
• a processor configured to execute computer program code to parse the framework and retrieve the logical collection and hierarchy of data objects of the framework from the data repository to identify the variables in the document elements;
• a user interface configured to generate a human readable questionnaire on the variables, to obtain user inputs on the variables and store the user inputs in the database;
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• the processor being further configured to execute computer program code to compile the complex document by retrieving the document elements from the data repository, populating the variables with the user inputs and combining the document elements according to the hierarchy, wherein the document elements are maintained independently of the complex documents, the document elements being independently updatable and usable across multiple complex documents.