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Scheduling Matters with Time Estimates over 15 Minutes

10. Each bankruptcy application set before a Registrar in Bankruptcy that is expected to require more

than 15 minutes to be heard must be booked separately at a date and time to be coordinated with

Supreme Court Scheduling in the registry in which the application will be heard.

11. The provisions of the BIA Rules relating to motions apply to such hearings.

Hearing Record to be provided

12. On an bankruptcy application expected to require more than 15 minutes to be heard, the applicant

must :

a) file in the registry where the hearing will take place, all documents required to be filed pursuant

to the BIA Rules, and

b) provide to the registry where the hearing will take place, a hearing record containing the items

described in paragraph 14.

13. The hearing record must be provided to the registry, no later than 4 p.m. on the business day that is

one full business day before the date set for the hearing.

Contents of Hearing Record

14. The hearing record must be in a ring binder or some other form of secure binding, and must contain,

in consecutively numbered pages, or separated by tabs, the following documents in the following

order:

a) a title page with the style of proceedings and the name of the lawyer(s), if any, for the applicant

and the persons served with the application

b) an index

c) a copy of the filed notice of motion

d) copies of every affidavit in support of the motion

e) copies of all other documents to be relied upon at the hearing, including, without limitation

those documents listed in paragraph 7 of this Administrative Notice.

15. The hearing record may contain:

a) a draft of the order in the prescribed form, or in the terms agreed by all interested parties

b) a list of authorities.

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