BarTalk June 2002
Volume 14, Number 3

Effective July 1, 2002, Rule 60E will come into force. Rule 60E provides for Judicial Case Conferences to be conducted by a Judge or Master. Subrule 60E(1) provides that the Judicial Case Conference must be held before a party can deliver to another party a notice of motion or affidavit in support of an interlocutory application.

Without notice applications, applications made by consent and applications made pursuant to section 57 and 67 of the Family Relations Act are not subject to this requirement. In addition, Subrule 60E(3) provides that a party may apply to be relieved of the requirement to attend a judicial case conference on specified grounds, including urgency or danger to health or safety of any person. A Judicial Case Conference may also be requested by a party or directed by a Judge or Master.

A copy of Rule 60E can be found at www.courts.gov.bc.ca under “Amendments to the Supreme Court Rules”, B.C. Reg. 83/2002 (May 3, 2002).

This article was published in the June 2002 issue of BarTalk and is subject to the copyright by the British Columbia Branch of the Canadian Bar Association, 2005, all rights reserved.