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A clerical error is an error on part of an office worker, often a secretary or personal assistant. It is a phrase which can also be used as an excuse to deflect blame away from specific individuals, such as high powered executives, and instead redirect it the more anonymous, less identifiable, less punishable, and certainly less embarassable clerical staff. A secretary is an office/administrative support position. ...
Clerical errors of note
The attack on Pearl Harbor which was not supposed to be a surprise attack. The Japanese had intended to deliver a note delcaring both war and their intentions at Pearl Harbour to the United States prior to the attack, but due to a clerical mishap the note was delivered late.
18½ Minutes of the infamous "Watergate" tapes were, allegedly, accidentally erased by Richard Nixon's Secretary in a clerical error which may have very well changed the course of American history.
A mathematical error in completing a child support worksheet that is incorporated in a judgment is clerical in nature; under CR 60(a), the judgment must be amended to correct the mathematical computation.
An error in an arbitration award that does not pertain to any clericalerror amenable to correction under CR 60(a) can be corrected only by timely pursuing an MAR 6.2 motion to amend or a motion to reconsider prior to entry of judgment confirming the award.
Clerical mistakes in judgments, orders or other parts of the record and errors therein arising from oversight or omission may be corrected by the court at any time of its own initiative or on the motion of any party and after such notice, if any, as the court orders.
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