Small Claims Court is expanding operations to include motions to set aside defaults, as well as requests to clerk for assessment hearings and motions in writing filed before March 16, 2020. Updated information re email filing added as well.  CLICK HERE to read notice

The Small Claims Court public notice now provides that the Court will accept requests for the following matters:

The Ministry of the Attorney General has advised that the Guelph courthouse located at 36 Wyndham Street South will be closed effective October 21, 2020 until further notice due to an HVAC concern. As a result, in-person criminal hearings of the OCJ at the Guelph courthouse (36 Wyndham Street South) are suspended until further notice. Remote proceedings, including bail, plea court, judicial pre-trials, and criminal case management court, will proceed as scheduled.

Please note that, because family proceedings are conducted at a different courthouse (74 Woolwich Street) in Guelph, they have not been affected and will proceed as scheduled. CLICK HERE to read notice.

It's back! Remote desktop access to Quicklaw program has been reinstated. 

As there are still some issues with library access for lawyers throughout the province, they've restarted the program. This is the same program that had been running earlier this year, but was discontinued in September. 

Any existing IDs for lawyers should now be reactivated (so if you signed up earlier, your credentials still should work), and new participants can once again self-register using the following code:  https://signin.lexisnexis.com/lnaccess/UserRegistration?regCode=eac39t2.

MAG has announced that The Superior Court and Ontario Courts of Justice have suspended all in-person court hearings at the Milton Courthouse due to a new discovery of mould in the Milton courthouse. Matters will be rescheduled. CLICK HERE to read notice.