Kitchener - Superior Court of Justice (ONSCJ)
Kitchener Superior Court of Justice
Address Information
85 Frederick Street
Kitchener, ON N2H 0A7
Tel: (519) 741-3300
Fax: (519) 741-3278
Department Information
- Finance Office - (519) 741-3300 * 5905
- Small Claims - (519) 741-3270
- Superior Court Civil Clerk: Kitchener.Courthouse@ontario.ca
- Superior Court Trial Coordinator: Kitchener.Superior.Court@ontario.ca
- Small Claims Court: KitchenerCivil-SCC-Enforcement@ontario.ca
- Superior Court Trial Coordinator (Melissa Cox) melissa.cox@ontario.ca
Notice to the Profession – Central South Region Re: Civil, Family, Criminal Expansion
URGENT MATTERS
All urgent requests for long motions of one hour or more in family matters (as described in the May 13, 2020 Notice to the Profession) shall continue to be sent to the trial coordinator by email at the court site where the file is located. The urgent request will be forwarded to the triage judge, and the triage judge will determine whether the matter is urgent. If the matter is not deemed urgent, the party requesting the hearing will be advised by an endorsement in a return email.
Kitchener/Waterloo: Kitchener.Superior.Court@ontario.ca
If the triage judge determines that the matter is urgent, the judge will issue an endorsement by email setting out the terms for the filing, service, and any other directions for the hearing of the application.
Electronic materials from each party are limited to 10MB unless the judge hearing the matter expressly grants an order permitting the materials to be sent in multiple emails.
The parties must undertake to file all materials and any fee payable upon resumption of normal court operations.
NON-URGENT MATTERS
A) RULE 39 FIRST APPEARANCE
Please DO NOT attend at the courthouse.
Due to the large amount of family matters, a notice will go out during the week of July 20th, 2020 regarding First Appearance dates.
Any new applications issued as of July 6, 2020 and into the future, will be given a First Appearance date after September 14, 2020.
E) LONG MOTIONS, SUMMARY JUDGMENT MOTIONS & APPLICATIONS
The court will hear long motions, summary judgment motions and applications of 3 hours or less.
The motion material shall indicate any Wednesday for the motion hearing date.
Concise material shall be filed with Court Services, in PDF with hyperlinks to tabs and exhibits; while draft orders are to be filed in WORD. The material shall be filed by email to Court Services at: Kitchener/Waterloo: Kitchener.Superior.Court@ontario.ca
Court Administration
- Chief Administrative Justice: Justice Broad
- Proposed Deputy Administrative Justice: Daniel J. Fife
Motion Dates
- Motion Days for 2020 are held on Monday's, Wednesday's and Friday's Only
Court Personal
- Sloane French
- Assistant Trial Coordinator
- Superior Court of Justice
- Region of Waterloo
- Sloane.French@ontario.ca
