Guides to Ontario e-filing & court documents

Short, practical, and sourced from the practice directions and the case law — the rules your record will be judged against, whether you assemble it by hand or let software do it.

Motion practice

How to prepare an electronic motion record in Ontario

What goes in it, how it must be tabbed, indexed, bookmarked and hyperlinked, and how to stay inside Case Center's limits. The full walk-through.

Affidavits

Hyperlinking an affidavit to its exhibits

Why courts insist the affidavit and its exhibits be one linked PDF, how to build the links by hand, and the pitfalls that quietly break them.

Case Center

Case Center upload requirements, decoded

The naming convention, the 500-page cap, bookmarks, page-number placement, bundles, and what survives upload — as a checklist.

Discovery

The Affidavit of Documents (Form 30A), step by step

Schedules A, B and C, the lawyer's certificate, and how to assemble a productions brief where Schedule A is the index and every row finds its tab.

Case law

Motions dismissed for missing hyperlinks

Basaraba and Parekh: what Ontario judges have actually done about unusable electronic materials, and what they expect now.

Free tool

Ontario construction lien deadline calculator

Preserve, perfect and set-down dates under the Construction Act, computed conservatively from the dates you enter.

These guides are general information about Ontario procedure, not legal advice. Verify against the current Rules of Civil Procedure and the practice directions that apply to your matter.