Important Changes from the Federal Court’s Amended Consolidated General Practice Guidelines

On December 20, 2023, the Federal Court published the Amended Consolidated General Practice Guidelines (the “Guidelines”), which can be found here.

The last Consolidated General Practice Guidelines were published in June 2022.

Many of these new Guidelines are reminiscent of the Federal Court of Appeal’s recent Consolidated Guidelines from June of last year, which can be found here.

The Court notes that these Consolidated General Practice Guidelines are to be read in conjunction with the following consolidated guidelines:

1. Case and Trial Management Guidelines for Complex Proceedings and Proceedings under the PM(NOC) Regulations;
2. Practice Guidelines for Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Law Proceedings; and
3. Aboriginal Litigation Practice Guidelines (4th Edition).

In the event of a conflict between the new Guidelines and the guidelines listed in paragraphs (a) to (c) above, the guidelines listed in paragraphs (a) to (c) above take precedence.