Sittings, Memos & Directions

TRIAL SCHEDULING COURTS TIMES:

CRIMINAL TRIAL SCHEDULING COURT BEGINS @ 9:00 A.M.

FAMILY TRIAL SCHEDULING COURT BEGINS @ 10:30 A.M.

CIVIL TRIAL SCHEDULING COURT BEGINS @ 11:00 P.M.

For the 2021 Waterloo Region Courthouse List of Court Sittings click here

For the 2022 Waterloo Region Courthouse List of Court Sittings click here. 

For the 2021 Central South Trial Sittings for Civil and Family Court (including Kitchener) click here.

Daily Court Lists. click here

Practice Directions

• REMINDER- OCJ Mailbox for Enhanced Designations  (Waterloo Region Courthouse)
• Consolidated Provincial Practice Direction (Province-wide)
• Consolidated Divisional Court Practice Direction (Province-wide)
• Provincial Practice Direction Regarding Criminal Proceedings (Province-wide)
• Consolidated Practice Direction for the Central South Region (Regional)
• NEW - Provincial Practice Direction Regarding Criminal Proceedings
  

• Memo to Counsel in Infant Settlement Matters - March 2016
• Memo to Counsel: Amendment to CAS Appeals - March 2016
• Memo to Counsel:  All Counsel in Family Law Matters - March 2011
• Family Law Case Conferences - April 18, 2007
• New Notices to the Profession & Practice Forms - November 2003
• NEW - New Non-Resident Speculation Tax - Implication for Real Estate Lawyers

• Notice Regarding Family Law Cases (Kitchener)
  
• Notice to the profession – R. v. Chouhan (Province-wide)
• Notice to the profession re criminal law applications (Province-wide)
• Practice Advisory – 90 day Detention Reviews s. 525 Criminal Code (Province-wide)
• Practice Advisory Concerning the Provincial Civil Case Management Pilot – One Judge Model (Province-wide)
• Practice Advisory – Application for Judicial Authorization of Physician Assisted Death (Province-wide)
• Practice Advisory Concerning Long Motions in the City of Welland (Regional)
• Publication Ban Requests in the Superior Court of Justice (Province-wide)
• Recommended Instructions to Self-represented Accused Before Pre-trial Conferences – These instructions provide information on the pre-trial conference to self-represented accused persons. (Province-wide)

Region-specific Forms

Note: This section contains forms specific to the Central South Region. For other forms, including those prescribed under the Rules of Civil Procedure, the Family Law Rules, the Criminal Proceedings Rules and the Small Claims Court Rules, visit the Ontario Court Forms website.

• Trial Data Form (Regional)
• Long Trial Sittings Intake Form (Regional)

Administrative Procedures

Administrative Procedures Manual for Central South Region

**For an up-to-date list of practice directions for Central South click here.