Effective date: 08 September 2025
Summary:
The Associate Judges Chambers Pilot Project provides a means for parties to submit application records electronically (“Electronic Application Records”) for some matters using Court Services Online.
Practice Direction 68, which comes into effect on September 8, 2025, provides for the expansion of the Associate Judges Chambers Pilot Project to allow applications under 30 minutes to be scheduled before an associate judge in chambers where all litigants will appear by video using Microsoft Teams, by default. Initially, the expansion will include proceedings in all registries other than the Vancouver and New Westminster registries, including those without a resident associate judge.