Amendments to the Supreme Court Civil Rules and Supreme Court Family Rules will make it easier for people in B.C. to access court services.
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The changes include:
- requiring an email address for parties, if available, to make it easier to serve documents electronically;
- reducing the circumstances where trial-management conferences are mandatory so cases can be heard more quickly. These conferences give an opportunity for a judge or master to meet with lawyers and their clients to discuss how the trial will proceed;
- introducing new trial brief forms for civil and family matters to capture the necessary information more accurately for trials to proceed. Trial briefs are used to streamline the issues of a case and preview legal arguments for the court; and
- creating a new case-planning conference option for family law cases will bring the parties together early in the litigation to talk about how the case will proceed.
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