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ARTICLE · 22 JULY 2020

Modernization Of The Courts During COVID-19

Litigants and courts alike have faced struggles with handling a new frontier of litigation in the age of COVID-19.

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Litigants and courts alike have faced struggles with handling a new frontier of litigation in the age of COVID-19. However, these challenges have spurred courts to take more decisive steps to modernize and streamline court processes. There have been a number of recent decisions that demonstrate Canadian courts are increasingly willing to adopt more contemporary and efficient methods of proceeding, and we expect at least some of these methods will survive beyond the pandemic.

Courts weigh in on how to run a trial

On May 21, 2020, in Rovi Guides, Inc. v Videotron Ltd., the Federal Court of Canada took an important step forward in its digital evolution, setting the parameters for a remote trial to be conducted by videoconference, following a trial management conference.

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