Today the following updates were added to the Family page under Practice Areas:

First Appearance Booklet May 2022

Notice to the Profession and Family Law Litigants - Effective April 19, 2022

Congratulations to Justice Amelia M. Daurio, who is appointed a Judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario, Family Court Branch, in Newmarket. View the official notice here.

YRLA members, have you started earning your 2022 CPD hours? Your library staff constantly updates the Members Only area of this website, and has recently added links to these free videos with CPD hours:

YRLA Spring Family Law Lunch (1 h Substantive)

Motions to Change with Justice Jarvis (1 h Substantive)

FOLA Spring Plenary (assorted videos, many with CPD hours)

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Save the date. Evening of June 15, 2022. Attend in-person or virtually. More details and registration coming soon.

Here is this week’s schedule.  

Schedule for week of May 2, 2022

Updated connection details for Newmarket OCJ Zoom appearances have been posted on the Practice Areas > Criminal-OCJ page of this website and emailed this morning to all members of the YRLA practicing criminal law. Please replace v4 wit v5 if you have saved the document.

How to Attend Court (Zoom Links)

FOLA has released its latest Real Estate Update, available under the Practice Areas > Real Estate page of this website or here.

Central East Practice Notice - May Civil Sittings - March 24, 2022

Crown & Court Assignments Week of March 21 2022 

Effective April 19, 2022, counsel must be gowned for any virtual proceeding that if conducted in person would require gowning. For greater clarity, unless a region-specific Practice Direction states otherwise, counsel are not required to gown for the following court attendances:

• Trial scheduling court (also known as assignment court, “speak to” court or “purge court”) in family, criminal or civil proceedings;

• Case conferences, settlement conferences, trial management conferences, or pre-trials; and

• Small Claims Court proceedings.

Counsel must be gowned for all other in-person or virtual proceedings. They must do so regardless of whether the presiding judicial official is a judge or an associate judge.

Justice George A. MacPherson, Superior Court of Justice - Family Division