SUMMARY TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME 1 Dedication ...................................................... iii Preface ......................................................... v Summary Table of Cases (2014) ..................................... xlvii Table of Cases .................................................... li Civil Rules Concordance: Old to New .................................. xciii Civil Rules Concordance: New to Old ................................. cxxxi Summaries of Procedure ............................................ cli 124/2010 — ALBERTA RULES OF COURT ............................. 1 SCHEDULE A — FORMS: See Volume 2, APPENDIX V SCHEDULE B — COURT FEES AND WITNESS AND OTHER ALLOWANCES ........................................................ 1181 SCHEDULE C — [RECOVERABLE FEES] ........................ 1186 APPENDIX I — DEFINITIONS ................................... 1203 APPENDIX II — ALBERTA RULES OF COURT MADE UNDER THE COURT OF APPEAL ACT, COURT OF QUEEN’S BENCH ACT AND CIVIL ENFORCEMENT ACT ........................................................ 1213 APPENDIX III — CLASS PROCEEDINGS ACT ....................... 1345 APPENDIX IV — PRACTICE NOTES Court Of Queen’s Bench Practice Notes ........................... 1371 Court of Appeal, Practice Notes ................................. 1404 Provincial Court Of Alberta, Practice Notes ......................... 1468 Index ....................................................... 1499 VOLUME 2 APPENDIX V — ALTA. REG. 124/2010 — SCHEDULE “A” — FORMS ........ 1 Schedule A — Division 1 — Forms for Parts 2-11, 13 and 14 ............... 1 Schedule A — Division 2 — Forms for Part 12 — Family Law Forms ........ 53 APPENDIX VI — 276/95 — CIVIL ENFORCEMENT REGULATION ........ 183 APPENDIX VII — 117/2010 — JUDICIAL DISTRICTS REGULATION ...... 257 APPENDIX VIII — 130/95 — THE SURROGATE RULES, FORMS, PRACTICE NOTE ........................................................ 265 SCHEDULE 1 — Legal and Personal Representative Compensation ......... 312 SCHEDULE 2 — Court Fees .................................... 320 vii
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SUMMARY TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOLUME 1Dedication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Summary Table of Cases (2014) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xlvii
Table of Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . li
Civil Rules Concordance: Old to New . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xciii
Civil Rules Concordance: New to Old . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cxxxi
Summaries of Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cli
124/2010 — ALBERTA RULES OF COURT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
SCHEDULE A — FORMS: See Volume 2, APPENDIX V
SCHEDULE B — COURT FEES AND WITNESS AND OTHER ALLOWANCES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1181
SCHEDULE C — [RECOVERABLE FEES] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1186
APPENDIX I — DEFINITIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1203
APPENDIX II — ALBERTA RULES OF COURT MADE UNDER THE COURT OFAPPEAL ACT, COURT OF QUEEN’S BENCH ACT AND CIVIL ENFORCEMENTACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1213
APPENDIX III — CLASS PROCEEDINGS ACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1345
APPENDIX IV — PRACTICE NOTES
Court Of Queen’s Bench Practice Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1371
Court of Appeal, Practice Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1404
Provincial Court Of Alberta, Practice Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1468
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1499
VOLUME 2APPENDIX V — ALTA. REG. 124/2010 — SCHEDULE “A” — FORMS . . . . . . . . 1
Schedule A — Division 1 — Forms for Parts 2-11, 13 and 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Schedule A — Division 2 — Forms for Part 12 — Family Law Forms . . . . . . . . 53
APPENDIX VI — 276/95 — CIVIL ENFORCEMENT REGULATION . . . . . . . . 183
APPENDIX VII — 117/2010 — JUDICIAL DISTRICTS REGULATION . . . . . . 257
APPENDIX VIII — 130/95 — THE SURROGATE RULES, FORMS, PRACTICENOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
SCHEDULE 1 — Legal and Personal Representative Compensation . . . . . . . . . 312
SCHEDULE 2 — Court Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
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SCHEDULE 3 — Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Surrogate Court Practice Note 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
APPENDIX IX — THE HAGUE CONVENTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
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VOLUME 1
Dedication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Summary Table of Cases (2014) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xlvii
Table of Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . li
Civil Rules Concordance: Old to New . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xciii
Civil Rules Concordance: New to Old . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cxxxi
Summaries of Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cli
124/2010 — ALBERTA RULES OF COURT
PART 1 — FOUNDATIONAL RULES
DIVISION 1 — PURPOSE AND INTENTION OF THESE RULES1.1 What these rules do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.2 Purpose and intention of these rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
DIVISION 2 — AUTHORITY OF THE COURT1.3 General authority of the Court to provide remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.4 Procedural orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.5 Rule contravention, non-compliance and irregularities . . . . . . . . . . 221.6 Changes to these rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
DIVISION 3 — INTERPRETING THESE RULES1.7 Interpreting these rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231.8 Interpretation Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241.9 Conflicts and inconsistencies with enactments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251.10 Where definitions are located . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
PART 2 — THE PARTIES TO LITIGATION
DIVISION 1 — FACILITATING LEGAL ACTIONS2.1 Actions by or against personal representatives and trustees . . . . . . . 252.2 Actions by or against partners and partnerships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252.3 Suing individual partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262.4 Disclosure of partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262.5 Actions by and against sole proprietors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262.6 Representative actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262.7 Amendments to pleadings in class proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512.8 Questioning of class and subclass members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512.9 Class proceedings practice and procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
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2.10 Intervenor status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
DIVISION 2 — LITIGATION REPRESENTATIVES2.11 Litigation representative required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562.12 Types of litigation representatives and service of documents . . . . . . 572.13 Automatic litigation representatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572.14 Self-appointed litigation representatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582.15 Court appointment in absence of self-appointment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592.16 Court-appointed litigation representatives in limited cases . . . . . . . . 602.17 Lawyer appointed as litigation representative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602.18 Approval of settlement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602.19 Court approval of settlement, discontinuance, and abandonment of
actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612.20 Money received by litigation representative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612.21 Litigation representative: termination, replacement, terms and conditions
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
DIVISION 3 — REPRESENTATION OR ASSISTANCE BEFORE THE COURT2.22 Self-represented litigants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612.23 Assistance before the Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
DIVISION 4 — LAWYER OF RECORD2.24 Lawyer of record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702.25 Duties of lawyer of record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702.26 Verifying lawyer of record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702.27 Retaining lawyer for limited purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702.28 Change in lawyer of record or self-representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702.29 Withdrawal of lawyer of record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712.30 Service after lawyer ceases to be lawyer of record . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712.31 Withdrawal after trial date scheduled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712.32 Automatic termination of lawyer of record and resolving difficulties
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
PART 3 — COURT ACTIONS
DIVISION 1 — COURT ACTIONS AND THEIR VENUE3.1 Rules govern Court actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723.2 How to start an action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723.3 Determining the appropriate judicial centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793.4 Claim for possession of land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803.5 Transfer of action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 813.6 Where an action is carried on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823.7 Post-judgment transfer of action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
DIVISION 2 — ACTIONS STARTED BY ORIGINATING APPLICATION
Subdivision 1 — General Rules3.8 Originating applications and associated evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823.9 Service of originating application and evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823.10 Application of Part 4 and Part 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833.11 Service and filing of affidavits and other evidence in reply and response
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833.12 Application of statement of claim rules to originating applications . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833.13 Questioning on affidavit and questioning witnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
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3.14 Originating application evidence (other than judicial review) . . . . . . 93
Subdivision 2 — Additional Rules Specific to Originating Applicationsfor Judicial Review
3.15 Originating application for judicial review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 943.16 Originating application for judicial review: habeas corpus . . . . . . . 1033.17 Attorney General’s right to be heard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1033.18 Notice to obtain record of proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1033.19 Sending in certified record of proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1043.20 Other circumstances when record of proceedings may be required . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1083.21 Limit on questioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1093.22 Evidence on judicial review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1093.23 Stay of decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1123.24 Additional remedies on judicial review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
DIVISION 3 — ACTIONS STARTED BY STATEMENT OF CLAIM
Subdivision 1 — Statement of Claim3.25 Contents of statement of claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Subdivision 2 — Time Limit for Service of Statement of Claim3.26 Time for service of statement of claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1133.27 Extension of time for service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1143.28 Effect of not serving statement of claim in time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1263.29 Notice of extension of time for service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Subdivision 3 — Defence to Statement of Claim, Reply to Defence andDemand for Notice
3.30 Defendant’s options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1273.31 Statement of defence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1273.32 Additional options for defendant who files defence . . . . . . . . . . . 1283.33 Reply to defence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1293.34 Demand for notice by defendant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1303.35 Judgment or order by agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Subdivision 4 — Failure to Defend3.36 Judgment in default of defence and noting in default . . . . . . . . . . 1343.37 Application for judgment against defendant noted in default . . . . . 1363.38 Judgment for recovery of property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1393.39 Judgment for debt or liquidated demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1413.40 Continuation of action following judgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1423.41 When no defence is filed in foreclosure action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1433.42 Limitation on when judgment or noting in default may occur . . . . 143
Subdivision 5 — Claims Against Co-defendants3.43 How to make claim against co-defendant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Subdivision 6 — Third Party Claims3.44 When third party claim may be filed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1443.45 Form of third party claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1473.46 Third party defendant becomes party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1513.47 Third party defendant’s options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1593.48 Plaintiff’s options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1613.49 Third party statement of defence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1613.50 Demand for notice by third party defendant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
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3.51 Effect of demand for notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1623.52 Consequences of not filing third party statement of defence . . . . . 1623.53 Judgment against third party defendant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1623.54 Plaintiff’s reply to third party defence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1633.55 Application of rules to third party claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Subdivision 7 — Counterclaims3.56 Right to counterclaim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1633.57 Contents of counterclaim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1643.58 Status of counterclaim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1643.59 Claiming set-off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1643.60 Application of rules to counterclaims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
DIVISION 4 — REQUEST FOR PARTICULARS, AMENDMENTS TO PLEADINGS ANDCLOSE OF PLEADINGS
3.61 Request for particulars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1673.62 Amending pleading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1723.63 Identifying amendments to pleadings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1743.64 Time limit for application to disallow amendment to pleading . . . . 1753.65 Permission of Court to amendment before or after close of pleadings
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1753.66 Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2083.67 Close of pleadings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
DIVISION 5 — SIGNIFICANT DEFICIENCIES IN CLAIMS3.68 Court options to deal with significant deficiencies . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
DIVISION 6 — REFINING CLAIMS AND CHANGING PARTIES
Subdivision 1 — Joining and Separating Claims and Parties3.69 Joining claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2463.70 Parties joining to bring action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2473.71 Separating claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2483.72 Consolidation or separation of claims and actions . . . . . . . . . . . . 2493.73 Incorrect parties not fatal to actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Subdivision 2 — Changes to Parties3.74 Adding, removing or substituting parties after close of pleadings . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2573.75 Adding, removing or substituting parties to originating application . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2613.76 Action to be taken when defendant or respondent added . . . . . . . . 2683.77 Subsequent encumbrancers not parties in foreclosure action . . . . . 269
PART 4 — MANAGING LITIGATION
DIVISION 1 — RESPONSIBILITY OF PARTIES4.1 Responsibility of parties to manage litigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2694.2 What the responsibility includes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2694.3 Categories of court action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2704.4 Standard case obligations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2704.5 Complex case obligations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2714.6 Settling disputes about complex case litigation plans . . . . . . . . . . 2714.7 Monitoring and adjusting dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2714.8 Court may categorize actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
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DIVISION 2 — COURT ASSISTANCE IN MANAGING LITIGATION4.9 Orders to facilitate proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2724.10 Assistance by the Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2724.11 Ways the Court may manage action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2734.12 Request for case management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2754.13 Appointment of case management judge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2754.14 Authority of case management judge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2754.15 Case management judge presiding at summary trial and trial . . . . 276
DIVISION 3 — DISPUTE RESOLUTION BY AGREEMENT
Subdivision 1 — Dispute Resolution Processes4.16 Dispute resolution processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Subdivision 2 — Judicial Dispute Resolution4.17 Purpose of judicial dispute resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2784.18 Judicial dispute resolution process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2784.19 Documents resulting from judicial dispute resolution . . . . . . . . . . 2794.20 Confidentiality and use of information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2794.21 Involvement of judge after process concludes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
DIVISION 4 — SECURITY FOR PAYMENT OF COSTS AWARD4.22 Considerations for security for costs order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2804.23 Contents of security for costs order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
DIVISION 5 — SETTLEMENT USING COURT PROCESS4.24 Formal offers to settle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2984.25 Acceptance of formal offer to settle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3034.26 If costs are not dealt with in formal offer to settle . . . . . . . . . . . . 3074.27 Status of formal offer to settle and acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3074.28 Confidentiality of formal offer to settle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3074.29 Costs consequences of formal offer to settle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3084.30 When this Division does not apply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
DIVISION 6 — DELAY IN AN ACTION4.31 Application to deal with delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3304.32 Agreement about delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3394.33 [Proposed] Dismissal for long delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
DIVISION 7 — TRANSFER AND TRANSMISSION OF INTEREST4.34 Stay of proceedings on transfer or transmission of interest . . . . . . 3694.35 Death has no effect on action after evidence heard . . . . . . . . . . . 369
DIVISION 8 — DISCONTINUANCE4.36 Discontinuance of claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3694.37 Discontinuance of defence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
PART 5 — DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION5.1 Purpose of this Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
DIVISION 1 — HOW INFORMATION IS DISCLOSED
Subdivision 1 — Introductory Matters5.2 When something is relevant and material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3785.3 Modification or waiver of this Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3815.4 Appointment of corporate representatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
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Subdivision 2 — Disclosing and Identifying Relevant and MaterialRecords
5.5 When affidavit of records must be served . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3905.6 Form and contents of affidavit of records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3915.7 Producible records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4525.8 Records for which there is an objection to produce . . . . . . . . . . . 4615.9 Who makes affidavit of records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4625.10 Subsequent disclosure of records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4625.11 Order for record to be produced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4645.12 Penalty for not serving affidavit of records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4655.13 Obtaining records from others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4695.14 Inspection and copying of records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4765.15 Admissions of authenticity of records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4855.16 Undisclosed records not to be used without permission . . . . . . . . 486
Subdivision 3 — Questions to Discover Relevant and Material Recordsand Relevant and Material Information
5.17 People who may be questioned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4875.18 Persons providing services to corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5395.19 Limit or cancellation of questioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5405.20 When questioning is to take place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5415.21 Appointment for questioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5415.22 Questioning options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5415.23 Preparation for questioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5415.24 Oral and written questioning limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5415.25 Appropriate questions and objections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5425.26 Transcript of oral questioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5445.27 Continuing duty to disclose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5455.28 Written questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5455.29 Acknowledgment of corporate witness’s evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . 5455.30 Undertakings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5575.31 Use of transcript and answers to written questions . . . . . . . . . . . . 5575.32 When information may be used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5695.33 Confidentiality and use of information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569
DIVISION 2 — EXPERTS AND EXPERT REPORTS5.34 Service of expert’s report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5735.35 Sequence of exchange of experts’ reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5765.36 Objection to expert’s report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5785.37 Questioning experts before trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5785.38 Continuing obligation on expert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5805.39 Use of expert’s report at trial without expert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5805.40 Expert’s attendance at trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584
DIVISION 3 — MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS BY HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS5.41 Medical examinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5845.42 Options during medical examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5935.43 Payment of costs of medical examinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5965.44 Conduct of examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598
PART 6 — RESOLVING ISSUES AND PRESERVING RIGHTS
DIVISION 1 — APPLICATIONS TO THE COURT6.1 What this Division applies to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601
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6.2 Application to the Court to exercise its authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601
Subdivision 1 — Application Process Generally6.3 Applications generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6016.4 Applications without notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604
Subdivision 2 — Application in Foreclosure Action6.5 Notice of application in foreclosure action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607
Subdivision 3 — Responses, Replies and Decisions on Applications6.6 Response and reply to application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6086.7 Questioning on affidavit in support, response and reply to application
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6086.8 Questioning witness before hearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6096.9 How the Court considers applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6196.10 Electronic hearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6196.11 Evidence at application hearings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6216.12 If person does not get notice of application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6226.13 Recording hearings when only one party present . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622
Subdivision 4 — Appeal from Master’s Judgment or Order6.14 Appeal from master’s judgement or order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622
Subdivision 5 — Procedure for Questioning6.15 Appointment for questioning under this Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6286.16 Contents of notice of appointment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6286.17 Payment of allowance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6296.18 Lawyer’s responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6336.19 Interpreter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6336.20 Form of questioning and transcript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633
DIVISION 2 — PRESERVING EVIDENCE AND OBTAINING EVIDENCE OUTSIDE ALBERTA6.21 Preserving evidence for future use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6416.22 Obtaining evidence outside Alberta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6416.23 Duties of person authorized to take evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6446.24 Assistance to judicial authorities outside Alberta . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645
DIVISION 3 — PRESERVING AND PROTECTING PROPERTY OR ITS VALUE ANDINSPECTION OF PROPERTY
6.25 Preserving or protecting property or its value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6466.26 Inspection or examination of property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6476.27 Notice before disposing of anything held by the Court . . . . . . . . . 652
DIVISION 4 — RESTRICTION ON MEDIA REPORTING AND PUBLIC ACCESS TO COURTPROCEEDINGS
6.28 Application of this Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6526.29 Restricted court access applications and orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6596.30 When restricted court access application may be filed . . . . . . . . . 6596.31 Timing of application and service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6596.32 Notice to media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6596.33 Judge assigned to application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6596.34 Application to seal or unseal court files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6596.35 Persons having standing at application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6606.36 Confidentiality of information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660
DIVISION 5 — FACILITATING PROCEEDINGS6.37 Notice to admit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660
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6.38 Requiring attendance for questioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6696.39 Order to produce prisoner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670
DIVISION 6 — RESOURCES TO ASSIST THE COURT
Subdivision 1 — Court Experts6.40 Appointment of court expert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6706.41 Instructions or questions to court expert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6736.42 Application to question court expert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6736.43 Costs of court expert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674
Subdivision 2 — Referees6.44 Persons who are referees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6746.45 References to referee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6746.46 Referee’s report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675
DIVISION 7 — COURT-APPOINTED RECEIVER6.47 Court-appointed receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675
DIVISION 8 — REPLEVIN6.48 Application of this Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6766.49 Application for replevin order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6766.50 Replevin order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6776.51 Enforcement of replevin order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6796.52 Respondent may apply for remedy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6796.53 Expiry of replevin order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679
DIVISION 9 — INTERPLEADER6.54 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6796.55 Nature of application for interpleader order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6806.56 Application for interpleader order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6806.57 Interpleader applicant not disentitled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6826.58 Interpleader order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6826.59 Civil enforcement agency application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6826.60 Several claims combined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6836.61 Enforcement from different courts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6836.62 Claim by third person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6836.63 Notice by civil enforcement agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6836.64 Security interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6846.65 Expeditious sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684
PART 7 — RESOLVING CLAIMS WITHOUT FULL TRIAL
DIVISION 1 — TRIAL OF PARTICULAR QUESTIONS OR ISSUES7.1 Application to resolve particular questions or issues . . . . . . . . . . . 685
DIVISION 2 — SUMMARY JUDGMENT7.2 Application for judgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7007.3 Application and decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7087.4 Proceedings after summary judgment against party . . . . . . . . . . . 736
DIVISION 3 — SUMMARY TRIALS7.5 Application for judgment by way of summary trial . . . . . . . . . . . 7367.6 Response to application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7477.7 Application of other rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7477.8 Objection to application for judgment by way of summary trial . . . . .
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7.9 Decision after summary trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7507.10 Judge remains seized of action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7517.11 Order for trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751
PART 8 — TRIAL
DIVISION 1 — MODE OF TRIAL8.1 Trial without jury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7518.2 Request for jury trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7518.3 Deposit for jury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774
DIVISION 2 — SCHEDULING OF TRIAL DATES8.4 Trial date: scheduled by court clerk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7748.5 Trial date: scheduled by the judge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7758.6 Notice of trial date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7768.7 Confirmation of trial date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777
DIVISION 3 — ATTENDANCE OF WITNESSES AT TRIAL8.8 Notice to attend as witness at trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7778.9 Requiring attendance of witnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779
DIVISION 4 — PROCEDURE AT TRIAL8.10 Order of presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7808.11 Absence of witnesses at trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7808.12 Exclusion of witnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7808.13 No communication with excluded witnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7818.14 Unavailable or unwilling witness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7818.15 Notice of persons not intended to be called as witnesses . . . . . . . 7878.16 Number of experts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7888.17 Proving facts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7898.18 Trial conducted by electronic hearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7948.19 Use of trial evidence in subsequent proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7948.20 Application for dismissal at close of plaintiff’s case . . . . . . . . . . . 7948.21 Retrials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7998.22 Continuing trial without jury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8018.23 Judgment after jury trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8018.24 Accidents and mistakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801
PART 9 — JUDGMENTS AND ORDERS
DIVISION 1 — PREPARATION AND ENTRY OF JUDGMENTS AND ORDERS9.1 Form of judgments and orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8039.2 Preparation of judgments and orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8049.3 Dispute over contents of judgment or order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8079.4 Signing judgments and orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8079.5 Entry of judgments and orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8089.6 Effective date of judgments and orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8109.7 Certified copies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8139.8 Service of judgments and orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 813
DIVISION 2 — DETERMINATION OF DAMAGES, JUDGMENT IN COUNTERCLAIMS ANDJUDGMENT AGAINST BENEFICIARIES
9.9 Determining damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8139.10 Judgment for balance on counterclaim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8159.11 Judgment against beneficiaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815
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DIVISION 3 — CORRECTIONS, FURTHER ORDERS, SETTING ASIDE, VARYING ANDDISCHARGING JUDGMENTS AND ORDERS
9.12 Correcting mistakes or errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8159.13 Re-opening case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8239.14 Further or other order after judgment or order entered . . . . . . . . . 8269.15 Setting aside, varying and discharging judgments and orders . . . . . 8269.16 By whom applications are to be decided . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 842
DIVISION 4 — ENFORCEMENT OF JUDGMENTS AND ORDERS9.17 Enforcement: orders for payment and judgments for payment into Court
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8439.18 Judgments and orders subject to conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8439.19 Persons who are not parties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8439.20 Time writ remains in force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8439.21 Application for new judgment or order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8449.22 Application that judgment or order has been satisfied . . . . . . . . . . 8469.23 Enforcement against partners’ and partnership property . . . . . . . . 8469.24 Fraudulent preferences and fraudulent conveyances . . . . . . . . . . . 8479.25 Order of possession of land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8489.26 Authority to evict occupants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8499.27 Removal, storage and sale of personal property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8499.28 Abandoned goods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8499.29 Questioning person to assist in enforcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851
DIVISION 5 — FORECLOSURE ACTIONS9.30 When affidavit of value must be filed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8519.31 Other material to be filed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8539.32 Offer for sale of secured property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8539.33 Sale to plaintiff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8539.34 Order confirming sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8559.35 Checking calculations: assessment of costs and corrections . . . . . . 8569.36 Service of certified bill of costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859
DIVISION 6 — SALE AND DISPOSITION OF LAND OTHER THAN BY FORECLOSUREACTION
9.37 Application of this Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8599.38 Sale and disposition of land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8599.39 Terms, conditions and limitations on orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860
DIVISION 7 — RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT OF UNITED KINGDOM JUDGMENTS9.40 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8619.41 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8619.42 Application to Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8619.43 Affidavit in support of application for order to register convention
judgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8619.44 When application may be filed without notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8629.45 Order to register convention judgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8629.46 Convention judgment debtor’s application to set aside . . . . . . . . . 8639.47 Convention judgment creditor’s appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8639.48 Appeal when order is made on notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8639.49 Factors to be considered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863
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DIVISION 8 — REGISTRATION OF JUDGMENTS UNDER RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT OFJUDGMENTS ACT
9.50 Originating application to register judgment from reciprocatingjurisdiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 864
9.51 Notice of registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 864
PART 10 — LAWYERS’ CHARGES, RECOVERABLE COSTS OF LITIGATION, ANDSANCTIONS
DIVISION 1 — LAWYERS’ CHARGES, RETAINER AGREEMENTS AND RIGHT OF REVIEW10.1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 864
Subdivision 1 — Lawyers’ Charges10.2 Payment for lawyer’s services and contents of lawyer’s account . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86510.3 Lawyer acting in representative capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86710.4 Charging order for payment of lawyer’s charges . . . . . . . . . . . . . 868
Subdivision 2 — Retainer Agreements10.5 Retainer agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88410.6 Void provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 884
Subdivision 3 — Contingency Fee Agreements10.7 Contingency fee agreement requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88410.8 Lawyer’s non-compliance with contingency fee agreement . . . . . . 886
Subdivision 4 — Right of Review10.9 Reasonableness of retainer agreements and charges subject to review
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88810.10 Time limitation on reviewing retainer agreements and charges . . . 89010.11 Who may request review of lawyer’s charges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89310.12 Location of review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89410.13 Appointment for review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89410.14 Client-obtained appointment: lawyer’s responsibility . . . . . . . . . . 89510.15 Retainer agreement confidentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89510.16 Absence of person at appointment for review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89510.17 Review officer’s authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89610.18 Reference to Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89710.19 Review officer’s decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89810.20 Enforcement of review officer’s decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89810.21 Repayment of charges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90010.22 Action for payment of lawyer’s charges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90010.23 Costs of review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90210.24 Reviewing lawyer’s charges: incomplete services and particular events
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90210.25 Order to return records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 903
Subdivision 5 — Appeal from Review Officer’s Decision10.26 Appeal to judge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90310.27 Decision of judge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 904
DIVISION 2 — RECOVERABLE COSTS OF LITIGATION
Subdivision 1 — General Rule, Considerations and Court Authority10.28 Definition of “party” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90810.29 General rule for payment of litigation costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 908
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10.30 When costs award may be made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92610.31 Court-ordered costs award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93110.32 Costs in class proceeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97610.33 Court considerations in making costs award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97710.34 Court-ordered assessment of costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 998
Subdivision 2 — Assessment of Costs by Assessment Officer10.35 Preparation of bill of costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99910.36 Assessment of bill of costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99910.37 Appointment for assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99910.38 Assessment officer’s authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100010.39 Reference to Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100010.40 Absence of person served with notice of appointment for assessment
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100110.41 Assessment officer’s decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100110.42 Actions within Provincial Court jurisdiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100410.43 Certification of costs payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1004
Subdivision 3 — Appeal from Assessment Officer’s Decision10.44 Appeal to judge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100510.45 Decision of the judge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1005
DIVISION 3 — OTHER MATTERS RELATED TO LAWYERS’ CHARGES AND LITIGATIONCOSTS
10.46 Review and assessment under enactments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100610.47 Liability of litigation representative for costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100610.48 Recovery of goods and services tax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1006
DIVISION 4 — SANCTIONS
Subdivision 1 — Penalty10.49 Penalty for contravening rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100710.50 Costs imposed on lawyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1008
Subdivision 2 — Civil Contempt of Court10.51 Order to appear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101510.52 Declaration of civil contempt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101510.53 Punishment for civil contempt of Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1040
DIVISION 5 — MEDICAL EXAMINATION10.54 Mental disorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1050
DIVISION 6 — INHERENT JURISDICTION10.55 Inherent jurisdiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1051
PART 11 — SERVICE OF DOCUMENTS
DIVISION 1 — GENERAL PROVISIONS11.1 Service of original documents and copies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105111.2 Service not invalid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1051
DIVISION 2 — SERVICE OF COMMENCEMENT DOCUMENTS IN ALBERTA11.3 Agreement between parties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105211.4 Methods of service in Alberta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105311.5 Service on individuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105411.6 Service on trustees and personal representatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105411.7 Service on litigation representatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105511.8 Missing persons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1055
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11.9 Service on corporations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105511.10 Service on limited partnerships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105711.11 Service on partnerships other than limited partnerships . . . . . . . . 105811.12 Service on individuals using another name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105811.13 Service on a corporation using another name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105911.14 Service on statutory and other entities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105911.15 Service on person providing an address for service . . . . . . . . . . 105911.16 Service on lawyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106011.17 Service on lawyer of record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106111.18 Service on self-represented litigants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106311.19 Service on business representatives of absent parties . . . . . . . . . 1063
DIVISION 3 — SERVICE OF DOCUMENTS, OTHER THAN COMMENCEMENTDOCUMENTS, IN ALBERTA
11.20 Service of documents, other than commencement documents, in Alberta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1064
11.21 Service by electronic method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106411.22 Recorded mail service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1064
DIVISION 4 — SERVICE OF DOCUMENTS, OTHER THAN COMMENCEMENTDOCUMENTS, IN FORECLOSURE ACTIONS
11.23 Additional service options in foreclosure actions . . . . . . . . . . . . 106511.24 Notice of address for service in foreclosure actions . . . . . . . . . . 1065
DIVISION 5 — SERVICE OF DOCUMENTS OUTSIDE ALBERTA11.25 Real and substantial connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106611.26 Methods of service outside Alberta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1085
DIVISION 6 — VALIDATING, SUBSTITUTING, DISPENSING WITH AND SETTING ASIDESERVICE
11.27 Validating service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108811.28 Substitutional service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109311.29 Dispensing with service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109511.30 Proving service of documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109611.31 Setting aside service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1097
DIVISION 7 — SERVICE OF FOREIGN PROCESS11.32 Procedure for service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1099
PART 12 — FAMILY LAW RULES
DIVISION 1 — FOUNDATIONAL RULES12.1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109912.2 What this Part applies to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110012.3 Application of other Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110012.4 Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1100
DIVISION 2 — THE PARTIES TO LITIGATION12.5 Requirement that parties be spouses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110012.6 Exception to rule 2.11(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1101
DIVISION 3 — COURT ACTIONS
Subdivision 1 — Actions Relating to Proceedings Under the Divorce Act(Canada) and Proceedings Under the Matrimonial Property Act
12.7 Starting proceeding under Divorce Act (Canada) . . . . . . . . . . . . 110112.8 Starting proceeding under Matrimonial Property Act . . . . . . . . . 1102
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12.9 Starting combined proceeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110212.10 Action for unjust enrichment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110212.11 Statement of defence, counterclaim and demand for notice . . . . . 110312.12 Time for service of documents filed under rule 12.11 . . . . . . . . 110312.13 Joint proceeding under Divorce Act (Canada) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110312.14 Transfer of divorce proceedings under Divorce Act (Canada) from court
outside Alberta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110412.15 Central Divorce Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1104
Subdivision 2 — Actions Relating to Proceedings Under the Family LawAct
12.16 Starting proceeding under Family Law Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110412.17 Service of documents filed under rule 12.16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110412.18 Response to proceeding under Family Law Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110512.19 Service of documents filed under rule 12.18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110512.20 Response to respondent’s request for additional order . . . . . . . . 110512.21 Service of documents filed under rule 12.20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110512.22 New evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110612.23 Questioning on statement, reply statement or affidavit . . . . . . . . 110612.24 Certificate of lawyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1106
Subdivision 3 — Actions Commenced by Originating Application12.25 Exception to rule 3.13(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110612.26 Application respecting order made by court outside Alberta under
Divorce Act (Canada) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110612.27 Applications under Extra-provincial Enforcement of Custody Orders Act
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1107
Subdivision 4 — Actions Relating to Proceedings Under the ProtectionAgainst Family Violence Act
12.28 Application of Part 3, Division 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110812.29 Affidavit of evidence for review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110812.30 Application for Queen’s Bench protection order . . . . . . . . . . . . 110812.31 Alternative to affidavit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110812.32 Actual notice of protection order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1108
Subdivision 5 — Actions Relating to Restraining Orders12.33 Application for restraining order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109
DIVISION 4 — MANAGING LITIGATION12.34 Application of Part 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110912.35 Operation of rule 4.34 under this Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110912.36 Advance payment of costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109
DIVISION 5 — DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION12.37 Application of Part 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111012.38 Affidavit of records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111012.39 Oral and written questioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111112.40 Written interrogatories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111112.41 Notice to disclose documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111212.42 Request for financial information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1112
DIVISION 6 — RESOLVING ISSUES AND PRESERVING RIGHTS12.43 Application of Part 6, Division 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111312.44 Application within course of proceeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1113
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12.45 Application after order or judgment under Divorce Act (Canada) . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1113
12.46 Provisional order to vary a support order under Divorce Act (Canada). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1114
12.47 Confirmation hearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1114
DIVISION 7 — RESOLVING CLAIMS WITHOUT FULL TRIAL12.48 Availability of application for summary judgment . . . . . . . . . . . 111512.49 Evidence in summary trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111612.50 Divorce without appearance by parties or counsel . . . . . . . . . . . 1116
DIVISION 8 — TRIAL12.51 Appearance before the Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1118
DIVISION 9 — JUDGMENTS AND ORDERS12.52 Enforcement of order made by court outside Alberta under Divorce Act
(Canada) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111812.53 Form of orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111812.54 Certificate of divorce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1118
DIVISION 10 — SERVICE OF DOCUMENTS12.55 Service of documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111912.56 Address for service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111912.57 Proof of service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111912.58 Rules that do not apply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1119
DIVISION 11 — APPEALS
Subdivision 1 — Appeal from Divorce Judgment12.59 Appeal from divorce judgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1120
Subdivision 2 — Appeals Under the Family Law Act12.60 Appeal from decision of Court of Queen’s Bench sitting as original court
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112012.61 Appeal from Provincial Court order to Court of Queen’s Bench . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112012.62 Duty of court clerks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112112.63 Transcript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112112.64 Filing of affidavits of service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112112.65 Non-compliance by appellant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112112.66 Speaking to list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112112.67 Scheduling appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112112.68 Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112212.69 Appeal memoranda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112212.70 Powers of Court on appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112212.71 Appeal from decision of Court of Queen’s Bench sitting as appeal court
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1122
PART 13 — TECHNICAL RULES
DIVISION 1 — JUDGE UNABLE TO CONTINUE13.1 When one judge may act in place of or replace another . . . . . . . 1124
DIVISION 2 — CALCULATING TIME13.2 Application of these rules for calculating time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112513.3 Counting days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112513.4 Counting months and years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1125
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13.5 Variation of time periods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1125
DIVISION 3 — PLEADINGS13.6 Pleadings: general requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113213.7 Pleadings: other requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114413.8 Pleadings: other contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114813.9 Defence of tender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114913.10 Pleadings: specific requirements for replies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115013.11 Pleadings: specific requirements for class proceedings . . . . . . . . 115013.12 Pleadings: denial of facts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1150
DIVISION 4 — FILED DOCUMENTS
Subdivision 1 — Contents and Filing13.13 Requirements for all filed documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115213.14 Endorsements on documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115313.15 When document is filed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115413.16 Deviations from and changes to prescribed forms . . . . . . . . . . . 115413.17 Amendments to records other than commencement documents, pleadings
or affidavits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1154
Subdivision 2 — Form and Contents of Affidavits and Exhibits13.18 Types of affidavit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115513.19 Requirements for affidavits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116313.20 Changes in affidavits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116413.21 Requirements for exhibits to affidavit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116413.22 Affidavits by visually impaired or those unable to read . . . . . . . 116413.23 Understanding affidavit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116413.24 More than one individual swearing affidavit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116513.25 Use of filed affidavits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116513.26 Exhibits: filing and return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1165
Subdivision 3 — Lost and Concurrent Documents, Certified Copies,Authenticated Photographs and Video Recordings
13.27 Lost documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116613.28 Concurrent document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116613.29 Certified copies of original records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116613.30 Authenticated photographs of personal property . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116613.31 Video recordings in place of transcripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167
DIVISION 5 — PAYMENT OF FEES AND ALLOWANCES, AND WAIVERS OF FEES13.32 Fees and allowances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116713.33 Uncertainty of amount of fees and allowances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116913.34 Fee accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116913.35 Fee exemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116913.36 Fee waiver: legal aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116913.37 Fee waiver: restraining orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1170
DIVISION 6 — JUDGE’S FIAT, COURT OFFICERS AND COURT REPORTERS13.38 Judge’s fiat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117013.39 Court officers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117013.40 Court officers may delegate authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117013.41 Authority of court clerk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117113.42 Absence of court clerk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117113.43 Seal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1172
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13.44 Duties of court clerk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117213.45 Notice to be given to court officers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117313.46 Official court reporters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117313.47 Proof of official court reporter’s signature not required . . . . . . . 1174
DIVISION 7 — PAYMENT INTO COURT AND PAYMENT OUT OF COURT13.48 When money may be paid into Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117413.49 How money is paid into Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117413.50 Tender on judicial sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117413.51 Litigant’s account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117513.52 Payments into Court under Trustee Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117513.53 Payments out of Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117513.54 Investments and payment earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117513.55 Disposition of money in accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1176
PART 14 — APPEALS14.1 Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1176
PART 15 — TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND COMING INTO FORCE15.1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117615.2 New rules apply to existing proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117615.3 Dispute resolution requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117715.4 Dismissal for long delay: bridging provision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117715.5 Contingency fee agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117815.6 Resolution of difficulty or doubt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117815.7 Filing of orders or judgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117815.8 Increased or decreased time limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117815.9 Time limit under these rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117915.10 Time runs from different event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117915.11 Formal offer to settle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117915.12 New test or criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117915.13 Place of existing proceeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118015.14 Repeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118015.15 Coming into force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1180Schedule A Please see Volume 2, Appendix VSchedule B Court Fees and Witness and Other Allowances . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1181Schedule C Recoverable Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1186
APPENDIX I — DEFINITIONS
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APPENDIX II — ALBERTA RULES OF COURT — APPEALS TO THECOURT OF APPEAL
390/68 — ALBERTA RULES OF COURT
PART 39 — APPEALS TO THE COURT OF APPEAL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1214
501 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1214502 Sittings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1214503 Chief Justice to preside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1214504 Adjournment of sittings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1214505 When appeal available . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1214506 Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1237507 Address for service and solicitor’s appointment continue . . . . . . 1242508 Stay of enforcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1242509 Notice of cross appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1257510 Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1257511 Contents of notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1258512 Amendment of notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1258513 Production of court file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1258514 Place of entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1258515 [Repealed Alta. Reg. 97/2008, s. 4.]515.1 General Appeal List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1259516 Chambers orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1265516.1 Time between service and hearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1267516.2 Deadline or time limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1268517 View by court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1269518 Powers of court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1270518.1 Application of Part 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276519 New Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276520 Interest from date of trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1277521 Delivery of judgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1278522 Adjournment of hearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1278523 Interlocutory order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1278524 Security for costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1278525 Appellant may discontinue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1282526 [Repealed Alta. Reg. 97/82.]527 Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1282528 Entry of judgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1282529 Consent judgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1283529.1 Appeal number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1283
Appeal Record [Heading amended Alta. Reg. 221/2009, s. 2.]
530 Contents of filed record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1283530.1 Transcripts, generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1287530.2 Transcripts of oral evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1288
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530.3 Appeal Digest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1288530.4 Appeal record produced in paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1289530.5 Transcripts of oral testimony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1289530.6 Appeal record that does not conform to Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1290531 and 532 [Repealed Alta. Reg. 97/82.]533 Supreme Court of Canada format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1290534 Registrar shall examine books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1290535 [Repealed Alta. Reg. 16/2002, s. 9.]536 Five copies of motion and documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1291537 Judge may vary compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1291537.1 Extracts of Key Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1291537.2 Extracts of Key Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1291537.3 Expense of preparing and filing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1292
Factums538 Filing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1293539 Judge may dispense with factums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1294540 Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1294541 and 542 [Repealed Alta. Reg. 280/74.]543 Failure to comply with Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1297544 Month . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1297545 Holidays and Saturdays not included . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1297546 Clear days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1298547 Time expiring on holiday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1298548 Court may enlarge or abridge time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1299549 Time enlarged by consent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1305550 Service on holiday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1305551 [Repealed AR 338/83, s. 15]Form A
PART 41 — VACATION552 Computation of time during vacation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1306553 Court vacations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1306
PART 42 — SOLICITORS554 Change of solicitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1307555 Solicitor ceasing to act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1307556 Service if no notice given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1308557 Solicitor must declare action started by him . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1309
PART 57 — RULES AND ORDERS PROMULGATED UNDER THE WINDING-UP ACT
(1) — Petition to Wind up Company754 Title of petition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1309755 Filing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1309756 Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1309757 Copies to creditors and contributories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1310
(2) — Winding-up Order758 Advertisement and service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1310759 Entry of order and carriage of proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1310760 Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1310761 Provisional liquidator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1310762 Winding-up order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1311
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(3) — Liquidator763 Advertising time and place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1311764 Contents of notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1311765 Evidence of qualifications of liquidator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1311766 Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1311767 Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1311768 Sureties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1311769 Replacement of liquidator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1312770 Duties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1312771 Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1312
(4) — Proof of Debts772 Advertisement for debts and claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1312773 Proof of claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1312774 Investigation and report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1312775 Claims on books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1313776 Power of Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1313777 Service of notice of hearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1313778 Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1313
(5) — List of Contributories779 List of contributories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1313780 Notice of appointment to settle list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1314781 Clerk’s certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1314
(6) — Calls782 Application for call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1314783 Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1314784 Contents of order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1314785 Order where memo. not served . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1315786 Service of order and notice of amount due . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1315787 Adjournment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1315788 Receipt of bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1315789 Issue of non-payment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1315
(7) — Proceedings Before the Court790 Application in chambers and upon notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1316791 Sanction of compromise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1316792 Memorandum of clerk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1316
(8) — Advertisements793 Advertisements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1316
(9) — Register and File of Proceedings794 Register of proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1316795 Deposit and filing of documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1316796 Custody of documents not filed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1317797 Inspection of documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1317
(10) — Provisional Liquidator798 Rules apply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1317
(11) — Attendance and Appearance of Parties799 Attendance and appearance of parties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1317800 Appointment of representative of class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1317801 Conditions of attendance at proceedings in chambers . . . . . . . . . 1318
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(12) — Service of Summons, Notices, Etc.802 Method of service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1318
(13) — Termination of Winding Up803 Release of liquidator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1318804 Clerk’s certificate of dissolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1318805 Deposit of file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1319
(14) — Solicitor of Liquidator806 Solicitor to conduct proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1319
(15) — Forms807 Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1319
(16) — Delegation808 Delegation of powers of court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1319
(17) — Costs809 Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1319810 Taxation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1319
(18) — Power of Judge811 Power of judge unaffected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1319
(19) — General Directions812 General practice to apply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1320
PART 58 — RULES AS TO PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE IN CONTROVERTEDELECTIONS UNDER THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES ELECTION ACT
813 Court of Queen’s Bench practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1320814 Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1321815 Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1321
PART 60 — RULES PURSUANT TO SECTION 424 OF THE CRIMINAL CODE WITHRESPECT TO MANDAMUS, CERTIORARI, HABEAS CORPUS AND PROHIBITION
825 Civil rules apply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1322826 Order issues in place of writ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1322827 Service of notice of motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1322828 Appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1322829 Power of a judge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1322
Certiorari830 Motion within 6 months . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1323831 Endorsement on notice of motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1323832 Return by magistrate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1324833 Application by Crown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1326
Mandamus834 Affidavit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1326835 Immunity from obeying order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1326836 Effect of order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1326
Habeas Corpus837 Order for discharge of prisoner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1326838 Coming into force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1327
PART 61 — RULES OF THE COURT OF APPEAL OF ALBERTA AS TO CRIMINALAPPEALS
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General840 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1329
Method of Appealing841 Criminal Code Reference s. 607(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1332842 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1332
Time for Appeal and Service843 Criminal Code Reference s. 607(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1332
Filing and Serving Notice of Appeal844 Criminal Code Reference s. 607(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1332
Content of Notice of Appeal845 Criminal Code Reference s. 607(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1333846 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1333847 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1333848 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1334
Appeals Where Leave Required849 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1334850 Criminal Code Reference s. 603(1)(A)(II) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1334
Sentence Appeals with Counsel851 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1334
Sentence Appeals without Counsel852 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1335
Sentence Appeals Generally853 Criminal Code Reference s. 614 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1335
Appeals other than Sentence Appeals854 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1335855 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1336
Furnishing certified Copies856 Criminal Code Reference s. 438(2)(D)(V) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1336
Report of a Trial Judge857 Criminal Code Reference s. 609(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1336
Disposition of Documents and Exhibits858 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1336
Verification of Transcripts and Depositions at Trial859 Criminal Code Reference s. 468-s. 487-s. 575 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1337
Compensation or Restitution of Property860 Criminal Code Reference s. 653-s. 654-s. 655-s. 616 . . . . . . . . . 1337
Release from Custody Pending Appeal860A Criminal Code Reference s. 608(1)(A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1337860B Criminal Code Reference s. 608(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1338
Abandonment of Appeals860C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1338
Dissemination of Rules860D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1339860E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1339
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APPENDIX III — CLASS PROCEEDINGS ACT1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1345
PART 1 — CERTIFICATION2 Plaintiff’s class proceeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13462.1 Right to appear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13473 Defendant’s class proceeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13474 Certification re settlement of proceeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13475 Class certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13486 Certification application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13497 Subclass certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13508 Certain matters not bar to certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13509 Certification order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13519.1 Orders in multi-jurisdictional certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135110 Refusal to certify . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135211 If conditions for certification not satisfied . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1352
PART 2 — CONDUCT OF CLASS PROCEEDINGS
DIVISION 1 — ROLE OF COURT12 Stages of class proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135213 Court may determine conduct of proceeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135314 Court may stay any other proceeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135315 Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1353
DIVISION 2 — PARTICIPATION OF CLASS MEMBERS16 Participation of class members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135317 Opting out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135417.1 Transitional — opting in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135418 Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135519 Examination of class members before an application . . . . . . . . . 1355
DIVISION 3 — NOTICES20 Notice of certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135621 Notice of determination of common issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135722 Notice to protect interests of affected persons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135823 Approval of notice by the Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135824 Giving of notice by another party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135825 Costs of notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1358
PART 3 — ORDERS, AWARDS AND RELATED PROCEDURES
DIVISION 1 — ORDERS RESPECTING COMMON ISSUES AND INDIVIDUAL ISSUES26 Contents of order respecting common issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135927 Judgment on common issues is binding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135928 Determination of individual issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135929 Individual assessment of liability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1360
DIVISION 2 — AGGREGATE AWARDS30 Aggregate awards of monetary relief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136131 Average or proportional share of aggregate awards . . . . . . . . . . 136132 Individual share of aggregate award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136233 Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136334 Undistributed award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1364
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DIVISION 3 — TERMINATION OF PROCEEDINGS AND APPEALS35 Settlement, discontinuance, abandonment and dismissal . . . . . . . 136436 Appeals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1365
PART 4 — COSTS, FEES AND DISBURSEMENTS37 Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136638 Contingency fee agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136639 Court approval of contingency fee agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1367
PART 5 — GENERAL40 Limitation periods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136841 Rules of Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136942 Application of Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137043 Coming into force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1370
APPENDIX IV — PRACTICE NOTESCOURT OF QUEEN’S BENCH, PRACTICE NOTES
[QBPN A] — Notice to the Profession — New Rules of Court and Forms — Grace Period. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1371
[QBPN B] — Notice to the Profession — The Commercial/Duty Justice Initiative . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1371
[QBPN C] — Notice to the Profession — Case Conferences — Rule 4.10 . . . . . . . . 1373
[QBPN D] — Notice to the Profession — Calgary Judicial Dispute Resolution AssignmentsSeptember 2011 — December 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1373
[QBPN E] — Notice to the Profession — Calgary Masters List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1373
[QBPN F] — Notice to the Profession — Case Management Counsel Pilot Project . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1374
[QBPN G] — Notice To The Profession — Amendments To The Surrogate Rules AndForms — Grace Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1375
[QBPN H] — Notice To The Profession — Waiver Of Dispute Resolution Before Trial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1375
[QBPN I] — Notice To The Profession-Summer Sittings Pilot Project . . . . . . . . . . 1376
[QBPN J] — Notice to the Profession — Summer Sittings Pilot Project . . . . . . . . . 1376
[QBPN K] — Notice to the Profession — New Surrogate Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1376
[QBPN L] — Notice to the Profession — Mandatory Dispute Resolution Requirementbefore Entry for Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1377
[QBPN M] — Notice to the Profession — Priority of Assignment of Judicial Dispute Reso-lution under Rule 4.16(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1377
[QBCP A] — Q.B. Civil Practice Note No. 1 — Applications without Personal Appearance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1378
[QBCP B] — Civil Practice Note No. 2 — Special Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1378
[QBCP C] — Civil Practice Note No. 3 — National Database of Class Proceedings . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1380
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[QBCP D] — Civil Practice Note No. 4-Guidelines for the Use of Technology in any CivilLitigation Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1381
[QBCP E] — Civil Practice Note No. 5 -Format of Expert Evidence of Economic Loss orDamages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1403
COURT OF APPEAL, PRACTICE NOTES
[CAPN A] — Circulation of Judgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1404
[CAPN B] — Distribution of Notices to the Profession and Personal Notification Subscrip-tion Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1405
[CAPN C] — E-Appeals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1405
[CAPN D] — Maintenance Appeals to Part J Appeals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1406
[CAPN E] — November 2010 Amendments to the Consolidated Practice Directions of theCourt of Appeal of Alberta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1406
[CAPN F] — Consolidated Practice Directions of the Court Of Appeal of Alberta . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1407Form A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1445Form B Sentence Appeal Questionnaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1448Form C Sample — Oral Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1449Form D Sample — Oral Argument in Chambers if Hearing Did Not Exceed
1/2 Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1450Form E Sample — No Oral Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1450Form F Sample — Board Hearing Appealed from Queen’s Bench . . . . . . 1451Form G Sample — Board Hearing Appealed Directly from Appeal Board . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1452Form H Sample Calendar Month . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1453Form I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1453Form J Certificate of Transcript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1454Form K Certificate of Preparer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1455Form L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1455Form M Lawyer’s Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1456Form N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1456Form O Sample — Part J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1461Form P . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1461[CAPN G] — 2013 SITTING DATES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1463[CAPN H] — 2014 SITTING DATES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1465
PROVINCIAL COURT OF ALBERTA, PRACTICE NOTES
[PROVCTPN A] — Provincial Court Practice Note 1 — Notice to the Profession — CaseManagement — Early Case Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1468
[PROVCTPN B] — Provincial Court Practice Note 2 — Notice to the Profession . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1469
Form “A” Counsel Statement Identifying Issues and Witnesses . . . . . . . . . . . 1474
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Form “B” Request for Hearing Pursuant to Section 536.4(1) Criminal Code . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1475
Form “C” Agreement and Admissions at Hearing Held under Section 536.4 CriminalCode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1477
Form “D” Mutual Agreement to Limit Scope of Preliminary Inquiry . . . . . . . 1478
[PROVCTPN C] — Provincial Court Practice Note 3 — Notice to the Profession . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1479
[PROVCTPN D] — Provincial Court Practice Note 4 — Provincial Court of Alberta Noticeto the Profession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1481
[PROVCTPN E] — Provincial Court of Alberta Family & Youth Courts — Practice Note5 — Binding Judicial Dispute Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1486
[PROVCTPN F] — Provincial Court of Alberta Family & Youth Courts Case ManagementPractice Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1487
[PROVCTPN G] — Practice Note #2 — Child Youth and Family Enhancement Act Provin-cial Court Of Alberta Calgary Family Courts Trial Readiness and Pretrial ConferenceProtocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1490
[PROVCTPN H] — Practice Note #3 — FamilyLaw Act (FLA) Provincial Court Of AlbertaCalgary Family Courts Trial Readiness and Pretrial Conference Protocol . . . . . . . . 1493
[PROVCTPN I] — Family & Youth Courts Calgary, Alberta Practice Note #4 — JDR Off-Hours Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1497
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1499
VOLUME 2
APPENDIX V — ALTA. REG. 124/2010 — SCHEDULE “A” FORMS
Schedule A — Division 1 — Forms for Parts 2-11, 13 and 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
SCHEDULE A — FORMSForm 1 Affidavit of Self-Appointed Litigation Representative . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Form 2 Notice of Self-Appointment of Litigation Representative . . . . . . . . . 3Form 3 Notice of Change of Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Form 4 Notice of Withdrawal of Lawyer of Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Form 5 Originating Application — Notice of Appeal/Reference Under an
Enactment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Form 6 Notice of Request for Transfer of Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Form 7 Originating Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Form 8 Notice to Obtain Record of Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Form 9 Certified Record of Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Form 10 Statement of Claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Form 11 Statement of Defence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Form 12 Reply to Defence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Form 13 Demand for Notice By Defendant(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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Form 14 Noting in Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Form 15 Notice of Claim Against Co-Defendant(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Form 16 Third Party Claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Form 17 Third Party Statement of Defence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Form 18 Demand for Notice by Third Party Defendant(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Form 19 Application to Enforce Judgment Against Third Party Defendant . . . 17Form 20 Reply to Defence of Third Party Defendant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Form 21 Counterclaim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Form 22 Formal Offer to Settle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Form 23 Discontinuance of Claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Form 24 Discontinuance of Defence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Form 25 Expert’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Form 26 Affidavit of Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Form 27 Application By (Name and Status) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Form 28 Notice of Appeal of Master’s Judgment or Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Form 29 Notice of Appointment for Questioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Form 30 Letter of Request to Judicial Authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Form 31 Order that Evidence be Taken Outside Alberta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Form 32 Application for Order Restricting Court Access [Heading amended Alta.
Reg. 163/2010, s. 11(b).] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Form 33 Notice to Admit Facts [Written Opinions] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Form 34 Originating Application for Interpleader Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Form 35 Civil Enforcement Agency Directions to Instructing Creditor . . . . . 35Form 36 Application for Summary Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36Form 37 Request to Schedule a Trial Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Form 38 Application for Court to Set a Trial Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Form 39 Confirmation of Trial Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Form 40 Notice to Attend as Witness at Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41Form 41 Application for an Order that a Judgment [or Order] Has Been Satisfied
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Form 42 Appointment for Review of Retainer Agreement/Lawyer’s
Charges [Heading amended Alta. Reg. 163/2010, s. 11(c).] . . . . . . . 44Form 43 Notice of Appeal of Review Officer’s Decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45Form 44 Bill of Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Form 45 Appointment for Assessment of Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Form 46 Notice of Appeal of Assessment Officer’s Decision . . . . . . . . . . . . 49Form 47 Order to Appear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50Form 48 Notice of Address for Service in Foreclosure Action . . . . . . . . . . . 51Form 49 Affidavit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Form 50 Money Paid Into Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53Form Schedule A — Division 2 — Forms for Part 12 — Family Law Forms . . . . . . . 53Form FL-1 Statement of Claim for Divorce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Form FL-2 Statement of Claim for Division of Matrimonial Property . . . . . . . . 57Form FL-3 Statement of Claim for Divorce and Division of Matrimonial Property
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Form FL-4 Statement of Defence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Form FL-5 Counterclaim for Divorce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Form FL-6 Counterclaim for Division of Matrimonial Property . . . . . . . . . . . . 68Form FL-7 Counterclaim for Divorce and Division of Matrimonial Property . . . 70Form FL-8 Joint Statement of Claim for Divorce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
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Form FL-9 Notice of Withdrawal — Joint Divorce Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Form FL-10 Claim — Family Law Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78Form FL-11 Response — Family Law Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80Form FL-12 Certificate of Lawyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82Form FL-13 Queen’s Bench Protection Order Questionnaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82Form FL-14 Application for a Restraining Order Without Notice in a Family Law
Situation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84Form FL-15 Notice to Produce an Affidavit of Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86Form FL-16 Notice to Reply to Written Interrogatories / Application . . . . . . . . . 87Form FL-17 Notice to Disclose / Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88Form FL-18 Family Application By [Name & Status] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94Form FL-19 Provisional Order Information Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95Form FL-20 Notice of Confirmation Hearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99Form FL-21 Request for Divorce (Without Oral Evidence) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100Form FL-22 Joint Request for Divorce (Without Oral Evidence) . . . . . . . . . . . 101Form FL-23 Affidavit of Applicant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101Form FL-24 Affidavit of Applicants (Joint) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Form FL-25 Divorce Judgment (Without Oral Evidence) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111Form FL-26 Divorce Judgment and Corollary Relief Order (Without Oral Evidence)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112Form FL-27 Corollary Relief Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113Form FL-28 Variation Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115Form FL-29 Order for Exclusive Possession of Matrimonial/Primary Home . . . 116Form FL-30 Restraining Order Without Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117Form FL-31 Restraining Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Form FL-32 Certificate of Divorce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120Form FL-33 Notice of Appeal — Provincial Court Order (Family Law Act) . . . 121Form FL-34 Adult’s Statement — Guardianship of Child . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122Form FL-35 Child’s Statement — Guardianship of Child . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123Form FL-36 Statement — Terminate Guardianship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124Form FL-37 Statement — Review of Guardian’s Significant Decision . . . . . . . 125Form FL-38 Statement — Court Direction for Guardian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126Form FL-39 Statement — Parenting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127Form FL-40 Statement — Parenting (Sole Guardian) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129Form FL-41 Statement — Vary Parenting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130Form FL-42 Statement — Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132Form FL-43 Statement — Vary Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133Form FL-44 Statement — Leave of Court (To Apply for Contact) . . . . . . . . . . 134Form FL-45 Statement — Child Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135Form FL-46 Recipient’s Statement — Vary Child Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138Form FL-47 Payor’s Statement — Vary Child Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140Form FL-48 Statement — Spousal / Partner Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142Form FL-49 Recipient’s Statement — Vary Spousal / Partner Support . . . . . . . 144Form FL-50 Payor’s Statement — Vary Spousal / Partner Support . . . . . . . . . . 145Form FL-51 Statement — Enforcement of Time With a Child . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146Form FL-52 Statement — Reimbursement for Failure to Exercise Time . . . . . . 147Form FL-53 Statement — Vary Enforcement (Time with a Child) . . . . . . . . . . 148Form FL-54 Statement — Exclusive Possession of Home — Household Goods . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150Form FL-55 Statement — Parentage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
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Form FL-56 Statement — Irreconcilability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152Form FL-57 Reply to Adult’s Statement — Guardianship of Child . . . . . . . . . . 153Form FL-58 Reply to Child’s Statement — Guardianship of a Child . . . . . . . . 154Form FL-59 Reply Statement — Terminate Guardianship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155Form FL-60 Reply Statement — Review of Guardian’s Significant Decision . . . 156Form FL-61 Reply Statement — Court Direction for Guardian . . . . . . . . . . . . 158Form FL-62 Reply Statement — Parenting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159Form FL-63 Reply Statement — Vary Parenting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160Form FL-64 Reply Statement — Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162Form FL-65 Reply Statement — Vary Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163Form FL-66 Reply Statement — Leave of Court (to Apply for Contact) . . . . . . 164Form FL-67 Reply Statement — Child Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165Form FL-68 Reply to Recipient’s Statement — Vary Child Support . . . . . . . . . 167Form FL-69 Reply to Payor’s Statement — Vary Child Support . . . . . . . . . . . 168Form FL-70 Reply Statement — Spousal / Partner Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170Form FL-71 Reply to Recipient’s Statement — Vary Spousal / Partner Support . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171Form FL-72 Reply to Payor’s Statement — Vary Spousal / Partner Support . . . 173Form FL-73 Reply Statement — Enforcement (Time with a Child) . . . . . . . . . 174Form FL-74 Reply Statement — Reimbursement for Failure to Exercise Time . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175Form FL-75 Reply Statement — Vary Enforcement (Time with a Child) . . . . . 176Form FL-76 Reply Statement — Exclusive Possession of Home — Household Goods
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177Form FL-77 Reply Statement — Parentage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178Form FL-78 Reply Statement — Irreconcilability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179Form FL-79 Update Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
APPENDIX VI — CIVIL ENFORCEMENT REGULATION
276/95 — CIVIL ENFORCEMENT REGULATION1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1832 Definitions re the Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1833 Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
PART 1 — CIVIL ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, BAILIFFS AND RECEIVERS
DIVISION 1 — BUSINESS OF AGENCIES AND BAILIFFS4 Address for service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845 Information on documents, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846 Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846.1 Review of account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847 Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1858 Carrying out seizures and evictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1858.1 Access to motor vehicle information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1869 Landlord’s powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18610 Indemnification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18611 Distribution re distress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
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12 Code of Conduct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18713 Reports registered in Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18714 Distribution of funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18715 Discharge of process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18816 Records re civil enforcement proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18817 Financial records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18818 Deposit, withdrawal and payment of money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18819 Records to be maintained . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18920 Monthly report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
DIVISION 2 — APPOINTMENT OF BAILIFFS21 Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18922 Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18923 Term of appointment, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18924 Renewal of appointment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19025 Ongoing training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19026 Suspension, etc. of appointment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19027 Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19028 Review of sheriff’s decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19129 Appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19130 Address to which material may be sent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19131 When appointment is suspended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
DIVISION 3 — RECEIVERS32 Receivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19233 Duties of receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19234 Inspection of records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19235 Distribution of proceeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
PART 1.1 — WRITS AND SERVICE OF DOCUMENTS
[Heading added Alta. Reg. 116/2010, s. 10.]35.01 Changes of name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19335.02 Clerical errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19335.03 Court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19335.04 Amendment of writ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19335.05 Service of documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19335.06 Recorded mail service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19635.07 Personal service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
PART 1.2 — IDENTIFICATION OF DEBTOR
[Heading added Alta. Reg. 116/2010, s. 10.]35.08 Identification of debtor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
PART 1.3 — INFORMATION REGARDING ENFORCEMENT DEBTORS
[Heading added Alta. Reg. 116/2010, s. 10.]35.09 Debtor to provide information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19735.10 Financial report of debtor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19835.11 Questioning of debtor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19835.12 Matters subject to questioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19835.13 Questioning of employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19935.14 Questioning of directors, officers and employees of a corporation . . . .
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35.15 Questioning of transferee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19935.16 Person in possession of exigible property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20035.17 Enforcement of duties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20035.18 Alberta Rules of Court apply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
PART 1.4 — GARNISHMENT
[Heading added Alta. Reg. 116/2010, s. 10.]35.19 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20035.20 Amounts outstanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20135.21 Issuing of garnishee summons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20135.22 Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20235.23 Duties of garnishee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20235.24 Grace period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20435.25 Employment earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20435.26 Service by enforcement creditor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20635.27 Money attached by prejudgment garnishee summons . . . . . . . . . . 20635.28 Renewal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20635.29 Change in amount outstanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20735.30 Distribution of funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20735.31 Proposal to pay out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
PART 2 — EXEMPTIONS36 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20837 General exemptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20838 Distress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20939 Employment earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20940 Determination of employment earnings exemptions . . . . . . . . . . . 21040.01 Amount owing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21040.1 Registered plan payment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21040.2 Minimum and maximum exemptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
PART 3 — REPORTING OBLIGATIONS OF ENFORCEMENT CREDITORS41 Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21242 Stays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21243 Effect of non-registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21244 Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
PART 4 — SALE OF LAND UNDER WRIT OF ENFORCEMENT45 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21346 Notice of intention to sell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21347 Notice of method of sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21448 Land not under the Land Titles Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21548.1 Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
PART 5
[Heading repealed Alta. Reg. 203/2002, s. 12.]49 to 61 [Repealed Alta. Reg. 203/2002, s. 12.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
PART 6 — EXPIRY, REPEAL AND COMMENCEMENT62 Expiry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21763 Repeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21764 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
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Schedule 1 Code of Conduct for Civil Enforcement Agencies . . . . . . . . . . . . 217Schedule 2 Code of Conduct for Civil Enforcement Bailiffs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218Schedule 3 Affidavit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
SCHEDULE 4Form 1 Warrant — Writ of Enforcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220Form 2 Warrant — Distress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222Form 3 Warrant — Garage Keepers’ Lien Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223Form 4 Warrant — Personal Property Security Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225Form 4.1 Warrant — Distress/Chattel Lease — Civil Enforcement Act . . . . . 226Form 5 Notice of Seizure of Personal Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227Form 5.1 Addendum to Notice of Seizure of Personal Property . . . . . . . . . . 228Form 6 Notice of Objection to Seizure of Personal Property . . . . . . . . . . . 228Form 7 Information for Debtor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230Form 8 Bailee’s Undertaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231Form 9 Bailiff’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232Form 9.1 Bailiff’s Report — Addendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232Form 10 Writ of Enforcement — Civil Enforcement Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233Form 10.1 Writ of Enforcement Addendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234Form 11 Garnishee Summons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235Form 12 Garnishee Summons Renewal Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242Form 13 Financial Statement of Debtor (Individual Debtor) . . . . . . . . . . . . 243Form 14 Financial Statement of Debtor (Corporate Debtor) . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
APPENDIX VII — JUDICIAL DISTRICTS
117/2010 — JUDICIAL DISTRICTS REGULATION1 Establishment of judicial districts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2572 Coming into force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257Schedule 1 Judicial District Boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257Schedule 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
APPENDIX VIII — SURROGATE RULES, FORMS, PRACTICE NOTE
130/95 — THE SURROGATE RULES1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2652 Rules of Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2663 [Repealed Alta. Reg. 53/2001, s. 3.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2664 Application for directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2665 Notice to attend or produce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2676 Venue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2677 [Repealed Alta. Reg. 165/2010, s. 5.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2678 Additional information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2679 Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
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PART 1 — NON-CONTENTIOUS MATTERS
DIVISION 1 — APPLICATION FOR GRANT10 Grants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26811 Preference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26812 Limited grant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26913 Forms required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Will14 Void gift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27115 Wills and codicils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27216 Identification by witness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27217 Proving signing of will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27318 Will in foreign language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27319 Witnesses dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27320 Dated will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27321 Minor testator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27322 Other documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27423 Formal proof of will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27424 Lost will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27425 Alterations, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Notice Required26 Notice of application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27427 Unknown beneficiary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Bonds28 Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27529 Dispensation from bond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27630 Application re bond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27631 Powers of court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Personal Representatives32 Renunciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27633 Nominations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27734 Grant of double probate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27735 Grant of re-sealed probate or re-sealed administration . . . . . . . . . 27736 Ancillary grant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27737 Unadministered property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Claimants38 Notice to claimants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27839 Notice by claimant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27940 Verification of claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27941 Valuation of security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27942 Contested claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28043 Claims not yet payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Duties of the Clerk44 Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28045 Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28046 Grants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28047 Retention of documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28148 Copies of documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28149 Clerk’s certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
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DIVISION 2 — ADMINISTRATION OF THE ESTATES OF MINORS50 Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28151 Publication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28152 Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28153 Dispensing with bond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28254 Application of rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
DIVISION 3 — MAKING, ALTERING OR REVOKING OF A WILL BY A MINOR
[Heading added Alta. Reg. 10/2012, s. 10.]54.1 Application under Wills and Succession Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
PART 2 — CONTENTIOUS MATTERS
DIVISION 1 — GENERAL55 Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28256 Parties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28357 Persons interested in the estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28358 Commencement of action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28458.1 Reply and demand for notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28459 Documents to be served . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28460 Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28461 Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28562 Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28563 Proceedings in chambers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28564 Procedure at hearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28565 Standing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29066 Trial of an issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29167 Time limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29168 Production of testamentary documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29169 Security for costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29170 Time for completion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
DIVISION 1.1 — APPLICATIONS UNDER VARIOUS ACTS
[Heading added Alta. Reg. 10/2012, s. 17.]70.1 Applications under various Acts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29170.2 Powers of the court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29270.3 Parties, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29270.4 Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29270.5 Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29270.6 Rules that apply to service of documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29270.7 Proceedings in chambers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29270.8 Witness fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29270.9 Disclosure of financial information in family maintenance and support
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
DIVISION 2 — PROCEEDINGS ON CAVEATS71 Caveat against issue of grant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29572 Warning to caveator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29573 Objection to grant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29574 Frivolous or vexatious caveat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
DIVISION 3 — FORMAL PROOF OF A WILL75 Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29676 Original will lost or destroyed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
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77 Required documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29778 Persons interested in the estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29779 Action commenced by a person interested in the estate . . . . . . . . 29880 Special applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29881 Order requiring formal probate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29882 Parties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29983 Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29984 Hearing in chambers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29985 Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30086 Order of decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30087 Order of proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30088 Other proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30089 Witness fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30090 Powers of the court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30191 Order final . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30292 Appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30393 Return and revocation of informal grant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
DIVISION 4 — PROOF OF DEATH94 Proof of death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
DIVISION 5 — CLAIMS ON AN ESTATE95 Contested claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30496 Application to court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
PART 3 — ACCOUNTING
DIVISION 1 — GENERAL97 Requirement for an accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30598 Contents of financial statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30599 Acceptable documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
DIVISION 2 — RELEASES100 Releases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307101 Effect of release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307102 Bond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
DIVISION 3 — DISPENSING WITH FORMAL PASSING OF ACCOUNTS103 Dispensing with passing accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307104 Proceeding without notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307105 Court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307106 Objection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
DIVISION 4 — PASSING ACCOUNTS107 Required forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308108 Application by person interested in estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308109 Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308110 Withdrawal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309111 Objection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309112 Consent to an accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309113 Powers of court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309114 Notice of objection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310115 Examination of accounts by an accountant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311116 Access to records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311117 Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
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PART 4
[Heading repealed Alta. Reg. 10/2010, s. 4.]118 to 136 [Repealed Alta. Reg. 10/2010, s. 4.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
PART 5 — TRANSITIONAL, REPEAL AND COMMENCEMENT137 to 140 [Repealed Alta. Reg. 132/2000, s. 10.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Schedules
Schedule 1 — Legal and Personal Representative Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Part 1 — Personal Representatives’ Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Part 2 — Lawyers’ Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Schedule 2 — Court Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Schedule 3 — Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Form NC 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Form NC 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Form NC 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Form NC 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Form NC 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Form NC 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Form NC 6.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Form NC 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Form NC 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Form NC 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Form NC 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Form NC 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Form NC 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Form NC 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Form NC 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Form NC 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Form NC 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Form NC 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Form NC 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Form NC 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
Form NC 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
Form NC 20.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Form NC 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Form NC 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Form NC 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Form NC 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Form NC 24.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
Form NC 24.2 [Repealed Alta. Reg. 209/2007, s. 3(d).] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
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Form NC 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Form NC 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Form NC 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
Form NC 28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Form NC 29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Form NC 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Form NC 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Form NC 32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Form NC 33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Form NC 34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
Form NC 34.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
Form NC 35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Form NC 36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Form NC 37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Form NC 38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Form NC 39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Form NC 40 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Form NC 41 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Form NC 42 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Form NC 43 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Form NC 44 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Form NC 45 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Form NC 46 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
Form NC 47 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Form NC 48 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Form NC 49 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Form C 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Form C 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Form C 2.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Form C 2.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Form C 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Form C 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Form C 3.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Form C 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Form C 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
Form C 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Form C 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
Form C 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Form C 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
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Form C 9.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Form C 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Form C 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
Form C 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
Form C 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Form C 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Form ACC 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Form ACC 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Form ACC 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
Form ACC 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Form ACC 5.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Form ACC 5.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
Form ACC 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
Form ACC 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
Form ACC 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
Form ACC 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Form ACC 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
Form ACC 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
Form ACC 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Form ACC 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Surrogate Court Practice Note 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
APPENDIX IX — THE HAGUE CONVENTION
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