Merged PR 2401: docs: document representation participation availability model

docs: document representation participation availability model Related work items: #23754
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 - Case summary UI varies by appeal type and case attributes.
 - Representation actions are conditionally shown by appeal type, role, and date windows.
+- Representation participation now appears to form one broader business decision model: whether a participant can engage in representation or consultation activity for a case at that point in the process.
 - Locale-sensitive behavior affects links, routes, labels, and email template choice.
 - New-case-reference notifications include preferred-language checks before template selection.

+## Current representation participation state
+
+- Technical discovery/documentation for Representation Participation Availability is complete.
+- The current behaviour is best understood as a coherent participation-availability policy with layered appeal-type, process-type, participant-type, consultation, and date-window exceptions.
+- Business validation is still required before any further representation-policy adoption, expansion, or behavioural change work.
+- Reference documents:
+    - `docs/representation-participation-availability.md`
+    - `docs/representation-participation-business-review.md`
+
+## Likely next discovery candidate
+
+- Case Lifecycle / Status Decision Model Discovery
+    - expected focus: case progress, stages, statuses, closed states, dashboard grouping, and lifecycle messaging
+    - should be treated as discovery-only pending review of the new representation participation documentation
+
 ## Important user-facing behaviors

 - Welsh route aliases are mapped in `next.config.js` and must remain in sync with page behavior.