Jan. 6, 2021 – 10:55 AM – Justice of the Peace OCJ Court Assignments

Please find the following recent updates as outlined below. Please find attached the updated Quick Bites document provided by Lynn Lubieniecki, OCJ Modernization Regional Coordinator, Central West Region 

Justice of the Peace Phillips, LAJP, advises that the following changes will take place Monday January 11th.

SB2 – will be the Main Court as follows:           9:30 am Overnight Arrests to be followed by Bail matters,  Speak to matters where a Bail Hearing Date has not been set, i.e. Consent releases where a surety has not been presented to the court, matters awaiting the Bail Program approval. All contested hearings are to be scheduled into the SBA Court as per the approved schedule.  Other matters will proceed if ready and time permits.

SB3 – Case Management Court:                  9:00 am to 10:30 am , Counsel and Agent Matters.

                                                                          10:30 am to 10:45 am morning break.

                                                                          10:45 am to Noon, Video Remands from the Detention Centres via Zoom. Video lists are to be strategically limited to 30 with a plus or minus of 5 .

                                                                         1:30 pm Duty Counsel and Self Reps matters.  If time permits will assist with Bail Matters.

SBA – Bail Assist:                                           9:00 am Contested Bail Hearings scheduled to maximum of 6 a day. (Six 45 minutes time slots will be scheduled each Day).

                                                                     Court Support will be prepared to start scheduling matters into this court starting Wednesday January 6th.

The SBA will be scheduled when there is a court room available.  Court Rooms outside of Niagara may be used when there in no Court Room  available in Niagara.  The Zoom Call information will be identified as SBA and all remands are to indicate

this code as well. We are attempting to have this Court Room scheduled every day.

These changes are being made to make the best effective and efficient use of the Court Rooms that are available for use and will monitored as we go forward.