Practice Direction No. 9

E-Filing and Proof of Service

Amendment Notice: 
Effective January 14, 2025, Practice Direction No. 3 issued on September 21, 2011, and Practice Direction No. 9 issued on December 23, 2013, are revoked and replaced by Practice Direction No. 9 below.

 

  1. This Practice Direction amends and augments subrules 17(1), 17(3), 22(2) and 28(1) as well as Rules 18 and 21 of the Specific Claims Tribunal Rules of Practice and Procedure, SOR/2011-119.
  2. Subrules 17(1), 17(3) and 22(2), and Rules 18 and 21 address the filing of documents with the Tribunal and service of documents on other parties. 
  3. Until further notice, all documents must be submitted electronically to the Tribunal using the Tribunal’s E-Filing application. All counsel in a proceeding before the Tribunal must create an E-Filing profile. 
  4. In accordance with Rule 18, the Tribunal may grant leave for a party to file a document by any other electronic means if doing so would be just, timely or cost-effective in the circumstances. 
  5. In keeping with the Tribunal’s mandate for efficient, timely and cost-effective adjudication, the Tribunal requires that proof of service for any Declaration of Claim must be filed with the Tribunal within 48 hours of service and in accordance with Rule 21 and subrule 28(1). 
  6. For all other documents, when a document is retrieved by counsel using the E-Filing application, an email is automatically generated and sent to the Registry of the Tribunal. This email is considered proof of service in accordance with Rule 21 and subrule 28(1) and is to be filed by a Registry Officer as such. 
  7. Counsel are required to retrieve any document filed through the Tribunal’s E-Filing application within 48 hours of its submission.

Honourable Victoria Chiappetta, Chairperson
Specific Claims Tribunal