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Originally Posted by riverbag
Now it is I that cannot follow, I don't recognize the term "sitting date", so I'll go by my situation. We were given a date in assignment court where we selected a trial date. It is an actual date for trial. Once that date was set, I scheduled discoveries, which is questioning of the applicant and respondent, or at least it was in my case. the proceedings were recorded and transcribed and will accompany my trial record which is to be filed 30 days before trial....then you submit witness lists etc to the other party and voila...you have a trial  I hope this helps and don't base your case on my info, I'm not a lawyer, but I play one in real life  |
In Hamilton court, you are not given a trial date but a trial time range that you can be called upon on even less than 24 hours notice. They call this a "trial sitting". Maybe this only happens in Hamilton. I also am confused about sceduling whitnesses and meeting filing timelines when you only know the actual trial date 24 hours before it happens. I can only guess prehaps the trial sitting date needs to be treated like the trial date for filing paperwork. For whitnesses who knows?
CD