Pleadings are closed once the defendant has served and filed their statement of defence. In preparing the discovery plan, the parties must consider the Sedona Canada Principles addressing electronic discovery. See Rule You must serve your affidavit of documents by the date in your discovery plan and it must list all relevant documents. Documents can be:. You must disclose all relevant documents. If you find new relevant documents after you serve your affidavit of documents, you must disclose them by serving a supplementary Affidavit Form 4D.
See the Rules of Civil Procedure for more information on situations where the document must be provided to the other party. Examination for discovery allows you and the other parties to ask each other questions, under oath, before the trial.
If you want to examine an opposing party in your case you must serve a Notice of Examination Form 34A which tells them how to attend the examination by providing either:. You can ask to have it transcribed so you have a written record of what was said at the examination. You can examine the other party or parties for up to seven hours, or you can agree to different time limits.
This timeline applies regardless of the number of parties you are examining. At your examination, unless you and the other party or parties agree otherwise, you must be able to provide all the documents listed in your affidavit. Once defences are filed and discovery is done including any discovery-related motions , you or any party to the action can ask for a trial date.
This is called setting the action down for trial. See Rule 48 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for more information on the trial record. If you are the plaintiff in an undefended action, you can have your case set down for trial by filing your trial record with the court. Undefended actions go to trial when other ways of getting a default judgment have been unsuccessful.
See Rule 19 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for more information regarding default proceedings. You will not get any notice that your action is being dismissed. To keep your action from being dismissed if you cannot set it down for trial within five years of the start date, you must either:.
Timetables and draft orders must be filed with the court at least 30 days before the five or two year deadlines. If the parties do not consent to the timetable, you can bring a motion for a status hearing to ask for a court order allowing the action to move forward.
You can do this at any time before the five- or two-year deadlines. All parties must attend a pre-trial conference before the trial can be held. The pre-trial conference is a chance to discuss:. The judge who conducts the pre-trial conference cannot preside at the trial unless all parties consent.
To schedule the pre-trial, you must contact the court registrar within days of the case being set down for trial. If you do not schedule it, the court registrar will set the date. Your case will be heard by a judge alone unless you request a judge and jury hear your case. Juries are rare in civil cases and not available in certain cases. You will need to file a Jury Notice Form 47A. During the trial, you and the other parties will present your evidence by calling witnesses and entering your documents or objects as exhibits.
You will need to tell your witnesses when to attend court. If any of your witnesses are reluctant or unwilling to attend the trial, you can require them to do so by serving them with a Summons to Witness Form 53A along with their attendance money.
This is the money they are entitled to for going to court and will cover any expenses, such as travel. You may file an affidavit to prove that you served the summons and delivered the attendance money to the witness. A judge may make their decision at the end of the trial, immediately after all parties have presented their case. The judge is also allowed to release their decision later. This is called reserving judgment.
If you request a copy of the judgment, order or endorsement from the court file, you will need to pay a copy fee. If the defendant in your case has not filed a statement of defence within the specified time limit, you can get a default judgment.
There are two steps you must take to get the default judgment. For the court registrar to sign default judgment you must file a Requisition for Default Judgment Form 19D. The court registrar may decline to sign if they are unsure whether the claim can properly be signed in default or they are unsure if the rate claimed is recoverable for prejudgment or postjudgment interest.
If the registrar declines to sign default judgment, you can bring a motion to the judge. Once you have filed all your documents and paid the fee, the court will let you know whether the default judgment is granted. To bring your motion orally, you must ask for a motion date by contacting the motions office in the courthouse where your claim was started. You must also prepare and file the following:. Save This Word!
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I have in mind a case where the plaintiff is suing an impecunious defendant. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web.
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