L EGAL REPOR T: LITIGATION
The rules of civil procedure in many jurisdictions across the country are slowly being cleaned up to make the system more efficient and responsive to users' needs.
business as usual BY DONALEE MOULTON
Procedure Rules in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador have
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or lawyers on Canada's East Coast, it is no longer business as usual. Major changes to the Civil
fundamentally altered the day-to-day routine of practising law. Lawyers in these jurisdictions are
about to get some company — a lot of company. Ontario and Alberta are
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poised to implement major changes to their civil procedure rules. Nowhere, however, is the potential upheaval more vociferously protested than in British Columbia, which has been attempting
