FOLA's latest Real Estate Update has been posted on the Real Estate page of our website under Practice Areas or you can read it here.

Topics include: Meredith MacLennan resigns as Chair of FOLA Real Estate Committee, replaced by Mark Giavedoni of Gowlings; annual increase of Teraview fees; Teranet hard tokens cost $50+HST; summary of A Lot from the DOT: 21 Things for 2021.

This week’s Crown & courtroom assignments have been posted on the Criminal - OCJ page of this website. 

Effective today, parties in civil, family, Divisional Court and Small Claims Court matters are no longer required to re-file paper copies of documents filed by email once regular court operations resume.

Documents filed by email must instead be maintained in accordance with the applicable SCJ notice.

The filing fees applicable to these documents can be paid immediately by phone or cheque, in accordance with direction by, or on behalf of, a Registrar or the clerk.

More information is available in the following parts of the below SCJ notices:

Consolidated provincial notice: section D(3) (Filings): 

CaseLines notice: section 2 (Electronic Court Filings – Justice Services Online): 

Divisional Court notice: section D.5:

Small Claims Court notice: section 12.2: 

Welcome Justice Jennifer Lynne Myers, who has been appointed to the Ontario Court of Justice in Newmarket.

Official announcement  

This week’s Crown & courtroom assignments have been posted on the Criminal - OCJ page of this website. 

Please note Remembrance Day is this Thursday, November 11th.

This week's court and Crown assignments have been posted on the Criminal - OCJ page of this website.

This week’s update is posted on the Criminal - OCJ page under Practice Areas.

On October 15, 2021, a regulation was filed to amend court rules and forms for estates proceedings in the Superior Court of Justice: O. Reg. 709/21, amending the Rules of Civil Procedure.

The regulation: 

•  streamlines the Rule 74 probate process;
• aligns the Rule 74 application forms with Succession Law Reform Act amendments to sections 15(a), 16, 17 and 43.1 that were made through the Accelerating Access to Justice Act, 2021, Schedule 9; and
• makes administrative amendments to 15 estate court forms.

These estate court rule and form amendments will come into force on January 1, 2022.

This week's court and Crown assignments have been posted on the Criminal - OCJ page of this website.

Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is supporting the new Judge-Led Intensive Case Management Court (JICMC) with time-limited certificates for accused people without retained counsel whose matters are more than twelve months old and who have had their cases adjourned to the JICMC.

Accused are not required to contact LAO to make an application. They can select a lawyer on the panel, who will then initiate and complete a lawyer-assisted application for JICMC on behalf of their client. 

Accused are provided with a handout with more information including local duty counsel office numbers. Financial testing is not necessary in this situation.