Kitchener - Superior Court of Justice (ONSCJ)

Address Information

85 Frederick Street
Kitchener, ON N2H 0A7
Tel: (519) 741-3300
Fax: (519) 741-3278

Notice to the Profession – Central South Region Re: Civil, Family, Criminal Expansion

• Central South Region - Re: Notice to the Profession

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.

Department Information

• Finance Office - (519) 741-3300 * 5905
• Small Claims - (519) 741-3270

Court Administration

• Chief Administrative Justice: Justice Broad
• Proposed Deputy Administrative Justice: Daniel J. Fife

Local Directives

Setting Down a Second Settlement Conference

• If the settlement conference reads endorsement , "...new settlement conference to be scheduled...." it is the parties responsibility to go to the clerk and request a date.
• If the settlement conference endorsement reads "...new settlement conference to be scheduled by the clerk...." then and ONLY then will the clerks automatically set the matter down for a new settlement conference.

New Directives

• According to the local court clerks, in April 2020 a pilot project will be launched requiring pre-trial telephone conference for:

a) Trials that have a legal representative on both sides, and,

b) Trials that are expected to take more then one day according to the settlement conference judge.

Representatives will not be able to pick trial dates in advance where the trial is expected to take longer then one full day. The trial must be scheduled by the local Deputy Administrative Justice.

Trial Scheduling

• As long as trials are not expected to exceed one day the person setting the matter down for trial may ask for any available date at the time he/she pays the trial setting fee.

Motion Dates

• Motion Days for 2020 are held on Monday's, Wednesday's and Friday's Only

Local Deputy Judges

• James Marentette
• J. Sebastian Winny
• C. L. Dickinson
• Daniel J. Fife
• S. McGill