Nova Scotia Annotated Civil Procedure Rules

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September 2008

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  • Parent
    • Explanation for Agency removing child from care of 60A.17(2),  F.60A.17
    • Having care and custody of child under Supervision Order 60A.20(1),  F.60A.20
    • Involvement when child in permanent care and custody of Agency F.60A.17
    • Involvement when child in temporary care and custody of Agency 60A.17(3),  F.60A.17
    • Judge determining their involvement with child for an extended period of time 60A.10(1)
    • Judge determining their status in relation to child 60A.10(1)
    • SEE ALSO: Guardian
    • Under the age of majority 60A.05
    • When child to be returned to parent or guardian under Order for Temporary Care and Custody 60A.21(1),  F.60A.21
  • Parent information program
    • Attendance, exceptions 59.17(5)
    • Attendance, penalties for failing to attend 59.17(6)
    • Attendance, requirements 59.17
  • Parenting statement
  • Particulars
    • SEE: Pleading
  • Parties
    • Adding assignor or assignee of debt subject to a claim 35.03,  35.11(3)
    • Adding Attorney General in appeal of tribunal decision to Court of Appeal 90.07(3)
    • Adding Attorney General re constitutional question 31.19
    • Adding beneficiaries of estates or trusts 36.11
    • Adding claimants to an interpleader application 76.03(3)
    • Adding defendants, respondents, or third parties 35.03,  36.11(2)
    • Adding executors of an estate 36.11
    • Adding further parties 35.05
    • Adding guardian for approval of contract involving child 71.13
    • Adding intervenor 35.10
    • Adding litigation guardian 35.11(4)
    • Adding non-party when motion made by or against them 22.11(4)
    • Adding non-party with interest in property seized under a temporary recovery order 43.07
    • Adding party, consequential provisions 35.08(6),  35.09,  35.15
    • Adding party, participation in proceeding 35.08(6),  35.09,  35.15
    • Adding party as factor in taking accounts 66.04(3)
    • Adding party by amendment to originating documents 31.11,  35.05
    • Adding party by consent 35.08(4)
    • Adding party by order ex parte 31.11
    • Adding party by order on notice 31.11,  35.06,  35.08,  36.12
    • Adding party in Action 31.11,  35.02,  35.03,  35.05
    • Adding party in Appeal to Supreme Court 7.23,  31.11,  35.02,  35.04,  35.05
    • Adding party in Application 5.09(2),  31.11,  35.02,  35.03,  35.05
    • Adding party in error, or not adding party 35.06,  35.07,  35.11(5),  37.05
    • Adding party in Judicial Review 7.10,  31.11,  35.02,  35.04,  35.05
    • Adding party in third party claim 35.02,  35.03,  35.05
    • Adding party where expiry of limitation period 35.08,  83.04(2),  83.11
    • Adding plaintiffs, applicants, or claimants 35.02,  36.11(2)
    • Adding representative party 35.11,  36.12
    • Adding subsequent encumbrancer in foreclosure or receivership proceeding 35.12,  72.03,  72.08,  73.03(3)
    • Adding tribunal as respondent in appeal of tribunal decision to Court of Appeal 90.07(3)
    • Adding trustee in bankruptcy 35.11(2)
    • Adverse party called for cross-examination 54.06
    • Amendment of originating documents to add party (SEE ALSO: Amendment) 35.05
    • Assignee added, on assignment of claim by plaintiff 35.03,  35.11(3)
    • Assistance for party to understand proceeding 48
    • Bankruptcy of party and appointment of trustee (SEE ALSO: Trustee) 35.11(2)
    • Carrying on business as (proprietorship) 35.13
    • Child (SEE ALSO: Child; Litigation guardian; Representative party) 35.11(4)
    • Conduct of party as factor in adjusting tariff costs 77.07
    • Consent to be added as party 35.08
    • Consequences of adding party 35.15
    • Correction to name of party 35.06,  35.11(5)
    • Counsel, requirement for certain parties 34.02
    • Death of party (SEE ALSO: Estates; Executor; Representative party) 35.11(1)
    • Decision-making authority as respondent in Judicial Review 35.04
    • Directions for participation of added party in proceeding 35.08,  35.10
    • Error in adding party 35.06,  35.07,  35.11(5),  37.05
    • Exclusion of party from hearing 53.06
    • Exclusion of party from trial 51.09(5)
    • Form 35.12, Notice to Subsequent Encumbrancer 35.12,  F.35.12
    • In Action or Application 35.02,  35.03
    • In counterclaim or crossclaim 35.02
    • In Judicial Review or Appeal to Supreme Court 35.02,  35.04,  35.07
    • In settlement proceeding involving representative party 36.13(2)
    • Interpreter for court proceeding, SEE: Translation
    • Intervenors 35.10
    • In third party claim 35.02,  35.03,  35.05,  35.07
    • Joinder of parties to start a proceeding (SEE ALSO: Adding party (above)) 35.01,  35.02,  35.03
    • Judge adding party 35.08,  36.12
    • Limitation period expiry, affect on adding party 35.08
    • Misnaming of party 35.06,  35.11(5)
    • Non-party, added to proceeding 22.11(4),  43.07
    • Non-party, application of Rules to 94.08
    • Notifying added party of proceeding 31.11,  35.15
    • Originating documents for purposes of adding parties (SEE ALSO: Originating documents) 31.11(5),  35.05
    • Participation of added party in proceeding 35.08(6),  35.09,  35.15
    • Partnership 35.14
    • Party added to proceeding, but with limited interest in proceeding 35.09
    • Peripheral parties with limited interests 35.09
    • Person intervening 35.10
    • Person under disability (not capable of managing their affairs) (SEE ALSO: Guardian; Litigation guardian; Representative party) 35.11(4)
    • Prejudice re adding or removing party 35.06,  35.08,  35.10
    • Presumption of inclusion of all interested parties 35.08
    • Proprietorship 35.13
    • Provisions for peripheral defendant or respondent 35.09
    • Public official (SEE ALSO: Representative party) 36.01,  36.02,  36.05
    • Refusal to be added as party 35.03
    • Removal of party by order 35.06,  35.07
    • Removal of party by separation of claim 35.07,  37.05
    • Representative parties, SEE: Representative party
    • Restriction on adding party where expiry of limitation period 35.08,  83.04(2),  83.11
    • Separation of claim as alternative to removal of party 35.07,  37.05
    • Status of party as plaintiff, defendant, third party, or intervenor 37.06
    • Stay of proceeding when death, bankruptcy, assignment, or mistake 35.11
    • Stay of proceeding while errors are rectified 35.06
    • Subsequent encumbrancer in foreclosure or receivership proceeding 35.12,  72.03,  72.08,  73.03(3)
    • Translator or signer for court proceeding, SEE: Translation
    • Unknown parties, requirement for counsel or representative 34.02,  36.10
  • Parties under disability
    • SEE: Person under disability
  • Partnership
    • Denial of plaintiff’s right to claim as a partnership 38.05
    • Disclosure of partner information 35.14(5)
    • Enforcement of judgment against partner or partnership 35.14(5),  79.11
    • Limited partnership as party 35.14
    • Members named as parties 35.14
    • Notice of proceeding to partnership members 35.14(5)
    • Notifying members of proceeding 31.03,  35.14
    • Oath or affirmation of an affidavit 39.10(6)
    • Proceedings between partnerships with common members 35.14(2)
    • Proceedings by or against partnership 35.14(5)
    • Unlimited partnership as party 35.14
  • Paternity test
    • When paternity of child at issue 59.55
  • Payment into court
    • Accounting for payments into court 46.01,  82.16(4)
    • Affidavit for an order for payment into court 46.05
    • Defence of tender of claimed amount before start of proceeding 46.02,  46.03
    • Discharge of conditional claim to property 46.02
    • Disputed funds, SEE: Interpleader
    • Form 46.04, Notice of Payment into Court 46.04,  F.46.04
    • Fund equal to value of pre-claim tender, to justify defence of tender 46.02,  46.03
    • Fund equal to value of property held as security 42.10,  46.02
    • General procedures 82.16
    • Non-party application for order for payment into court 46.05
    • Notice of payment into court 46.04
    • Order for payment into court 46.05
    • Partial satisfaction of a claim 46.02,  46.04
    • Payment into court on notice 46.04
    • Payment into court on order 46.05
    • Payment out of court, SEE: Payment out of court
    • Payment to Minister of Finance 82.16(4)
    • Proceeds of sale of property seized under a preservation order 42.09
    • Purposes of payment 46.02
    • Reduction of payment 46.06
    • Security for an offer to settle or contribute 46.02,  46.04
    • Security for costs by installments 45.03
    • Security for costs of successful defence 45.03
    • Vacating a lien under the Builders' Lien Act 46.02
  • Payment out of court
    • Affidavit for motion for payment out 46.07(1)
    • Payment out by prothonotary 46.07
    • Payment out to child 46.07
    • Payment out to interested non-party 46.07
    • Payment out to person under a disability 46.07
  • Pension Benefits Act
  • Pension Benefits Division Act
  • Pension Benefits Standards Act
  • Personal information
    • Confidentiality order respecting court record 85.04,  85.05
    • Editing exhibit to remove personal information 39.03
    • Identity protection using pseudonym in court documents 85.04(2)
    • Identity theft, protection of personal information in court documents 38.03,  38.06,  82.07
    • Personal contact information, protection by prothonotary 85.09
    • Restrictions on personal information in pleading 38.03,  38.06,  82.07
  • Personal service
    • SEE: Notice
  • Person under disability
    • Assistance for juror with disability 52.07
    • Assistance for party to participate in proceeding 48.02,  48.04,  48.05
    • Assistance for witness to attend and communicate 48,  50.08
    • Guardian appointed for litigation, SEE: Litigation guardian
    • Guardianship, SEE: Guardian
    • Interpreter for court proceeding, SEE: Translation
    • Medical condition of person, requirement to disclose 36.09(6),  71.09
    • Notifying person of proceeding 31.03
    • Oath or affirmation for an affidavit 39.10
    • Payment out of court in proceeding involving party under disability 46.07(1)
    • Representation, SEE: Litigation guardian; Representative party
    • Representation by counsel, requirement in settlement of a class proceeding 68.07
    • Translator or signer for court proceeding, SEE: Translation
  • Petitioner
    • Definition for divorce proceedings 59.05(3)
  • Petition for divorce
    • Answer to petition for divorce 59.10,  62.10,  F.59.10,  F.62.10
    • Definition 59.06
    • Notice of deadlines, Rule 31 [Notice]
    • Petition for Divorce, discontinuation 59.16(2)
    • Petition for Divorce, discontinuation exceptions 59.16(3)
    • Petition for Divorce, expiration and exception 59.16(1)
    • Requirements 59.09,  F.59.09
    • Respondent in petition for divorce, requirements 59.10(5)
    • Role of Court Officer in starting a proceeding 59.04
    • Starting a proceeding 59.04,  62.09
  • Physician’s opinion or report
    • SEE: Experts (physicians)
  • Place of hearing
    • SEE: Hearing - Place
  • Place of proceeding
    • SEE: Proceeding - Place
  • Place of trial
    • SEE: Trial - Place
  • Pleading
    • Alternative claim or defence [Action] 38.03,  38.05
    • Amendment of pleadings (SEE ALSO: Amendment) 38.12,  83.08
    • Answer to demand for particulars [Action] 38.09
    • Claim for costs presumption [Action or Application] 38.07
    • Claim for dismissal requirement [Action or Application] 38.07
    • Claim for remedy requirement [Action or Application] 38.07
    • Close of pleadings [Action] 38.11
    • Copies for use on appeal [Civil Appeal]
    • Copies for use on appeal [Criminal Appeal] 91.15
    • Costs consequences for improper denial of pleading 77.07(2)
    • Deadline for amending Notice of Action, Notice of Action for Debt, Notice of Defence, Notice of Defence and Counterclaim, Notice of Defence with Crossclaim, or Notice of Claim against Third Party 83.02(2)
    • Deadline for responding to demand for particulars [Action] 38.09
    • Declaratory judgment claim 38.07(5)
    • Definition of "statement of claim" 38.01(2)
    • Definition of "statement of defence" 38.01(2)
    • Demand for particulars [Action] 31.12,  38.08
    • Demand for particulars [Application, Judicial Review, or Appeal to Supreme Court] 38.10
    • Document heading requirements for counterclaim, crossclaim and third party claim 4.10(2),  4.12(1)
    • Evidence not to be pleaded, material facts only 4.02(4),  38.02
    • Form 38.08, Demand for Particulars [Action] 38.08,  F.38.08
    • Form 38.09, Answer to Demand for Particulars [Action] 38.09,  F.38.09
    • General principles of pleading 38.02
    • Improper denial of pleading, costs consequences 77.07(2)
    • Material facts only to be pleaded, no evidence 4.02(4),  38.02
    • Non-performance of a necessary condition [Action] 38.04,  38.05
    • Notice of Contest [Application] 5.08,  38.06
    • Particulars demanded [Action] 38.08,  38.09
    • Particulars for claims of fraud, misappropriation, malice [Action] 38.03
    • Particulars requested [Application, Judicial Review, or Appeal to Supreme Court] 38.10
    • Personal information to be restricted 38.03,  38.06,  82.07
    • Pleading a claim or defence [Action] 4,  38.03,  38.04,  38.05
    • Pleading grounds [Application] 5,  38.06
    • Quotations from documents, contracts, deeds [Action] 38.03
    • Refusal to provide particulars [Action] 38.09
    • Response to demand for particulars [Action] 38.09
    • Service of pleading, SEE: Notice
    • Statement of claim [Action] 4.02,  4.03,  38
    • Statement of claim [Action for debt] 4.03,  38
    • Statement of claim against third party 4.11,  38
    • Statement of claim in class proceeding 68.02
    • Statement of claim with no notice of Action 4.02(1)
    • Statement of counterclaim 4.08,  38
    • Statement of crossclaim 4.09,  38
    • Statement of defence 4.05(4),  38
    • Statement of defence to counterclaim 4.12,  38
    • Statement of defence to crossclaim 4.12,  38
    • Statement of defence to third party claim 4.12,  38
    • Statement of grounds [Application] 5.02,  5.03,  5.07,  38.06
    • Striking or amending where abuse of process 88.02,  88.03
    • Striking out, on motion for summary judgment on pleadings 13.03
  • Power of attorney
    • SEE: Representative party
  • Prehearing conference
    • Filing affidavit of evidence for prehearing conference 60A.13(4)
    • Relation to disposition or protection hearing 60A.13(1),  60A.13(2)
  • Prejudgment interest
    • SEE: Interest
  • Prejudice
    • Adding or removing party in proceeding 35.06,  35.08,  35.10
    • Adjournment of hearing of Application 5.11(2)
    • Adjournment of trial 4.20(3)
    • When late affidavit filed on Chambers Motion 23.12
    • When party fails to comply with orders or Rules on Application 5.15
    • When supplementary affidavit permitted for Application 5.11(2)
  • Prerogative writ (civil)
    • SEE: Judicial Review
  • Prerogative writ (criminal)
    • Deadline for filing Notice of Judicial Review to obtain mandamus, certiorari, or prohibition 64.03(2)
    • Extension of time to file Notice of Judicial Review 2.03(1),  64.03(2)
    • Form 7.05, Notice for Judicial Review 7.05,  F.7.05,  F.82.09C
    • Form 7.08, Notice of Participation (Judicial Review) 7.08,  F.7.08
    • Form 82.09C, Heading [for Notice for Judicial Review, Form 7.05] 82.09,  F.82.09C
    • GENERAL provisions, SEE: Judicial Review
    • Habeas corpus, SEE: Habeas corpus
    • Mandamus, certiorari, or prohibition 64.03
    • Writ granted by order 7.11,  64.02
  • Preservation order
    • Anton Piller or similar orders to seize evidence or property 42.03
    • Confidential information seized under an order, protection of 42.05(2),  42.08
    • Contempt for failure to obey order to deliver property 42.04
    • Damages awarded where motion for preservation not justified 42.07(2)
    • Discovery ordered, before proceeding commences 18.12(2)
    • Dispute about security interest in seized property 42.10
    • Electronic information in a database 16.02(8)
    • Entry to land or building to seize evidence or property 42.04
    • Ex parte motion for seizure of evidence or property 22.03(2),  42.02,  42.03,  42.06
    • Freezing order (Mareva injunction) to preserve assets 42.11
    • Granted on termination of a temporary recovery order 43.12
    • Indemnity for losses caused if preservation order not justified 42.07(1)
    • Injunction, SEE ALSO: Injunction
    • Injunction for preservation of evidence or property 42.02
    • Lawyer’s custody of seized evidence or property 42.03(3)
    • Lawyer’s supervision of delivery or seizure 42.05,  42.08(2)
    • Mareva injunction to freeze assets 42.11
    • Preservation of evidence or property by injunction 42.02
    • Preservation of evidence or property by seizure 42.03
    • Privileged or confidential information seized under an order, protection of 42.05(2),  42.08
    • Receivership proceedings 73.08
    • Rehearing of ex parte motion for preservation 42.06
    • Sale of property seized under a preservation order 42.09,  74
    • Security interest in property seized under an order 42.10
    • Seizure of evidence or property 42.02
    • Sheriff’s custody of seized evidence or property 42.03(3)
    • Terms for preserving seized evidence or property 42.03,  42.08
    • Undertaking for motion for injunction to freeze assets 41.06(1),  42.11
    • Undertaking for motion to preserve evidence or property 42.07(1),  95.02
    • Use of force to seize evidence or property 42.04
  • Privacy
    • Adoption hearings held in camera 61.06
  • Privilege
    • Accidental disclosure of privileged information 14.06(1)
    • Communications with counsel 15.03(3),  16.09(3)
    • Determination of claims to privilege 85.06
    • Litigation privilege F.15.03A,  F.16.09A
    • Negligent disclosure of privileged information 14.06(1)
    • Non-disclosure of privileged documents 15.02,  15.03(3)
    • Non-disclosure of privileged electronic information 16.03,  16.09(3),  16.12(3)
    • Non-disclosure of privileged information generally 14.05,  19.03,  19.05
    • Objection to question at discovery 18.17
    • Objection to question during taking of commission evidence 56.02,  56.05
    • Of settlement discussions (documents, correspondence and recordings) 10.16
    • Order to protect privileged information 14.06(8),  14.12(3)
    • Protection of privileged or confidential information on Judicial Review or Appeal to Supreme Court 7.10
    • Protection of privileged or confidential information seized under a preservation order 42.05(2),  42.08
    • Redaction of privileged information during "sort" of information for disclosure or discovery 14.02(1)
    • Sealed record of ruling on privilege, for review by Court of Appeal 85.06
    • Solicitor-client privilege 15.03(3),  16.09(3)
    • Using evidence where claim to privilege dropped 15.04,  16.03(3),  51.02
    • Waiver of privilege on discovery 18.13(4)
  • Proceeding
    • Adult protection proceeding, place of, and/or change of place 60A.41(3),  60A.41(4)
    • Cause of Action, remaining after withdrawal of proceeding 9.07(1)
    • Child protection application, proceedings in office of Family Division 60A.04(2),  60A.04(3)
    • Child protection proceeding, place of, and/or change of place 60A.04(3),  60A.04(4)
    • Choice of proceeding (Action or Application) 6.01
    • Consolidation of child protection involving custody or access 60A.09
    • Converting an Action or an Application 6.02,  6.03
    • Definition of "proceeding" 94.10
    • Discontinuance, SEE: Discontinuance
    • In Supreme Court (Family Division), place of hearing 59.03
    • In Supreme Court (Family Division), within s.32a, Judicature Act, scope 59.02
    • Kinds of proceedings (SEE ALSO: Action; Appeal to Supreme Court; Application; Judicial Review) 3.01,  60A.01(2),  94.10
    • Notice of Application [Divorce] 59.04,  59.06(1),  59.07,  F.59.07
    • Place of proceeding, and change of place 32.02
    • Place of proceeding, judge's discretion to transfer [Divorce] 59.03(4)
    • Place of proceeding [Divorce] 59.03(3)
    • Settlement of proceeding or claim, SEE: Settlement; Settlement conference
    • Starting a proceeding [Divorce] 59.04
    • Subsequent proceeding, when abuse of process 9.07(3)
    • Terms for subsequent proceeding on withdrawal of proceeding 9.07(2)
    • Types [Divorce] 59.06
    • Withdrawal, SEE: Withdrawal
  • Proof
    • Proof of admission of fact at trial or hearing 20.07,  51.07
    • Proof of age of child 36.13,  71.05
    • Proof of authenticity of document or electronic information 51.11
    • Proof of authenticity of documents, in Application for reduction of parole ineligibility 65.15
    • Proof of discovery questions and answers 18.21
    • Proof of document at trial or hearing 51.11,  54.05,  65.15
    • Proof of exhibit included in affidavit 39.09
    • Proof of fact at trial of an Action 51.07(2)
    • Proof of fact by use of an affidavit 39.07
    • Proof of law of a foreign state 51.02(2),  54.04,  86.08(2)
    • Proof of law of another province 54.03,  86.08(2)
    • Proof of notice (by affidavit of personal service) 31.05,  54.02,  65.06(3)
    • Proof of notice (by endorsement by accepting lawyer) 31.06,  33.02(1)
    • Proof of notice (by filing of responding document) 31.07
    • Proof of notice of Action, requirements in default judgment 8.02,  8.03
    • Proof of notice of Application for reduction of parole ineligibility 65.06(3)
    • Proof of will (estates) 36.11
  • Pro se litigant
    • SEE: Acting on one’s own
  • Protection hearing
    • Motion for protection order heard under s.40, Children and Family Services Act 60A.15(2)
  • Protection of a child
    • Access to records, Rule 85 (Access to Court Records) 62.30
  • Protection of an adult
    • Under Adult Protection Act 60A.01
  • Protection order
    • SEE: Orders, Protection
  • Protective services
    • Child in need of, under Children and Family Services Act 60A.03(1)
    • Expert opinion offered in determining what are reasonable and probable grounds for protective services 60A.10(3)
    • Judge calling for disposition hearing when child in need 60A.16(1)
  • Provisional order
    • In divorce, procedures 59.56
  • Publication ban
    • Conditions under Rule 59 (Family Proceedings) 59.60
  • Public official
    • SEE: Representative party