Notice to the Profession and Parties – Protocol for Civil Trials - August 8, 2024
Re: Central East Region Blitz Civil Trial Sittings
Further to my correspondence dated February 20, 2024, regarding the new Blitz Civil Trial Sittings in the Central East Region, please find enclosed the Trial List. This list details the matters that may be called during the upcoming civil trial sittings, scheduled to commence on September 9, 2024 and continue for five weeks. Please note that the position on the list, whether number one or number five, does not indicate priority. Counsel should be prepared to proceed whenever called during these five weeks.
For adjournment requests, if the adjournment is on consent and requested for the first time, it must be made in-writing to Regional Senior Justice Edwards. If it is the second adjournment request, or if it is opposed, it will go to triage court. Contested adjournment will only be granted in exceptional circumstances.
Please also note that Trial Coordinators will not be contacting counsel to inform them that their matter is included in the enclosed Trial List. In addition to sending this communication to the Bar Associations, the Trial List will be posted on the court’s website under “Notices and Guides” for the Central East Region. For your convenience, the link is: https://www.ontariocourts.ca/scj/practice/regional-practice-directions/central-east/
Justice Mark L. Edwards
Regional Senior Judge
Superior Court of Justice,
Central East Region
Further to the email above, RSJ Edwards has advised that all civil jury trials that are scheduled to be heard during the September 2024 sittings will be required to attend in person at the courthouse of the court centre in which their action commenced to select their juries on September 9, 2024 at 9:30am. Counsel/parties are expected to be prepared to begin their jury selection on this date.
For Newmarket matters, jury selection will be held in person at the Newmarket courthouse in courtroom 108.
Counsel will be able to pick up their jury lists from the jury selection clerk starting August 29, 2024.
Link to Trial List