🇨🇦 Canada • Ontario • 33 plans
Ontario matter plans cover proceedings in the Ontario Court of Justice, Superior Court of Justice, Court of Appeal for Ontario, and specialist tribunals including the Landlord and Tenant Board, Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, and the Licence Appeal Tribunal. Plans incorporate the Rules of Civil Procedure RRO 1990 Reg 194, the Family Law Rules O Reg 114/99, the Christopher's Law (Sex Offender Registry) 2000 SO 2000 c 1, the Family Law Act RSO 1990 c F-3, the Residential Tenancies Act 2006 SO 2006 c 17, and the Human Rights Code RSO 1990 c H-19. Ontario-specific requirements include Small Claims Court (up to $35,000), mandatory mediation in Toronto/Ottawa, and parallel SOIRA and provincial OSOR registry obligations.
Legal practitioners in Ontario can access 33 free, structured matter plan templates across 4 practice areas. Each plan maps the full lifecycle of a matter - from initial instructions through investigation, preparation, and finalisation - with estimated time units, role assignments, and jurisdiction-specific statutory deadlines built in. Open directly in-browser or export to CSV for your practice management system.
The library includes 10 master plans and 23 specialist derivative plans covering specific party roles and procedural variants. All plans are maintained by verified legal practitioners, version-controlled, and aligned to the SALI Alliance Legal Matter Standard Specification - making them compatible with legal AI workflows and direct PMS integration via the JSON API.
What Ontario legal matter plans are available?
The Open Matter Plans Network has 33 free Ontario legal matter plan templates across 4 practice areas, including Criminal Law, Civil Litigation, Family Law. Each plan is a step-by-step workflow checklist aligned to Ontario's court procedures and statutory requirements.
Are Ontario legal matter plan templates free?
Yes. All Ontario matter plans are free to access, browse, and use. You can view plans online, export to CSV for your practice management system, or pull them via the JSON API for direct PMS or legal AI integration.
How are Ontario matter plans structured?
Each plan is divided into stages covering the full matter lifecycle - from initial instructions and fact-gathering through preparation, filing, and finalisation. Individual tasks include estimated time units, role assignments, and key date fields. The Ontario library includes 10 master plans and 23 specialist derivative plans covering specific procedural variants.
When a practice-management system opens a matter at this level, these are the canonical fields it receives - resolved through the field-set hierarchy (base → area of law → geography → plan). Fields added at this levelare shown below, with inherited tiers beneath; each set's page has the full resolved table. How this works.
matter.matterNumbertextrequiredmatter.titletextmatter.matterTypetextmatter.statustextmatter.clientNametextrequiredmatter.clientEmailemailmatter.linkedContacts.CLIENT.phonephonematter.linkedContacts.CLIENT.addresstextmatter.fieldValues.client_date_of_birthdatematter.ourFirmNametextrequiredmatter.ourFirmAddresstextmatter.ourFirmPhonephonematter.ourFirmEmailemailmatter.ourFirmAddressStreettextmatter.ourFirmAddressSuburbtextmatter.user.firstNametextmatter.user.surnametextmatter.user.nametextmatter.user.emailemailmatter.user.addresstextmatter.user.phonephonematter.currentDatedatematter.fieldValues.matter_open_datedatematter.fieldValues.limitation_datedatematter.fieldValues.next_key_datedatematter.fieldValues.opponent_nametextmatter.fieldValues.opponent_solicitor_nametextmatter.fieldValues.opponent_solicitor_emailemailmatter.fieldValues.opponent_solicitor_phonephonematter.fieldValues.opponent_emailemailmatter.fieldValues.opponent_phonematter.fieldValues.court_nametextmatter.fieldValues.court_file_numbertextmatter.fieldValues.court_datedatematter.fieldValues.hearing_typetextmatter.fieldValues.estimated_feescurrencymatter.fieldValues.costs_agreement_signedbooleanmatter.fieldValues.professional_feescurrencymatter.fieldValues.disbursements_estimatecurrencymatter.fieldValues.total_disbursementscurrencymatter.user.signatureimagematter.fieldValues.client_abn_acnmatter.fieldValues.client_entity_typeselectmatter.linkedContacts.CLIENT.addressStreettextmatter.linkedContacts.CLIENT.addressSuburbtextmatter.linkedContacts.CLIENT.addressStatetextmatter.linkedContacts.CLIENT.addressPostcodetextmatter.linkedContacts.CLIENT.addressLocalitytextmatter.ourFirmAddressStatematter.ourFirmAddressPostcodetextmatter.ourFirmAddressLocalitytextmatter.user.addressStreetmatter.user.addressSuburbtextmatter.user.addressStatetextmatter.user.addressPostcodetextmatter.user.addressLocalitytext