Effective date: 9 March 2026
Purpose:
To set out the process for counsel to submit any documents for the Court to consider for a bail hearing, sentencing hearing, or to request an electronic desk order spring order.
Application:
This practice direction applies to bail, sentencing hearings, and electronic desk order spring orders for all adult and youth criminal files in the Province.
Directions:
Counsel shall submit in advance any documents they wish the Court to consider for a bail or sentencing hearing as set out below.
Note: If the bail hearing is adjourned from another day, (not a new arrest) then counsel should file the documents by 4:00pm the business day before the hearing or, where impracticable, before 9:00am on the day of the hearing.
The documents, unless marked as an exhibit, do not form part of the court record in the court file.
Melissa Gillespie
Chief Judge
Provincial Court of British Columbia