BarTalk October 2004
Volume 16, Number 5

Law Source Training

Court Services Online (CSO) – B.C.’s electronic court registry – arrives this month with the launch of the CSO e-search service. Information from every court registry in B.C. will be accessible online, allowing users to conduct province-wide searches of Supreme and Provincial civil court files.

The information available through e-search includes details on the nature of the claim or proceeding, the parties, documents filed, hearings, and results. Some limitations on access to information will apply based on the type of proceeding, particularly to information on family matters.

E-search is free in October. Thereafter, a service fee of $6, payable online by credit card, will be applied per file for accessing information through e-search. For this fee, users will have access to all of the information available on a particular file. More information on e-search is available at www.ag.gov.bc.ca/courts/cso.

This article was published in the October 2004 issue of BarTalk and is subject to the copyright by the British Columbia Branch of the Canadian Bar Association, 2004, all rights reserved.