East

For a list of courthouse locations by region, please see Contacting the Court.

Regional Practice Directions

• Consolidated Practice Direction for the East Region (Regional)
• Practice Direction Regarding Family Cases in the Superior Court of Justice East Region (Regional)
• SCJ Family Branch Belleville/ Picton: Local Scheduling Directive (November 2024)

Binding Judicial Dispute Resolution

• Practice Advisory Concerning the Superior Court of Justice’s Binding Judicial Dispute Resolution Pilot Project (Amended August 1, 2023)
• Binding JDR – Notice to the Family Law Bar and Family Litigants – Ottawa (Effective August 1, 2023)
• Binding JDR – Notice to the Family Law Bar and Family Litigants – L’Orignal (Effective August 1, 2023)
• Binding JDR – Notice to the Family Law Bar and Family Litigants – Cornwall (Effective August 1, 2023)
• Binding JDR – Notice to the Family Law Bar and Family Litigants – Pembroke (Effective August 1, 2023)
  • • Request and Consent Form 
    • Request and Consent Form – OCL 
    • Affidavit for Binding JDR Hearing 
    • Confirmation Form
    • Request for Binding JDR Hearing Endorsement Form

Notices and Guides

• Notice to the Public and the Profession in East Region (April 19, 2022)
• Practice Advisory Concerning Videoconference Attendances in the Belleville Family Court (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)

Provincewide Forms

• Class Actions Model Orders
  • Discontinuance model order
  • Carriage model order
  • Certification (contested) model order
  • Notice approval and consent certification for settlement purposes model order
  • Settlement approval model order