eDiscovery Canada · Alberta
eDiscovery
in Alberta.
Alberta now runs civil actions against a 36-month trial target with mandatory litigation plans. We build the evidence side to that clock — sworn affidavits of records included.
Bilingual EN + FRData hosted in CanadaNo ingestion feesSenior-led
Records disclosure,
on Alberta’s new clock.
noticia supports Alberta firms, in-house teams and public bodies through the technical half of disclosure: preservation, forensic collection, processing, hosted review and production. The affidavit of records your client swears sits on top of that work — so we build it to be sworn with confidence.
The province’s litigation culture is changing pace. Since September 2025, non-family civil actions must file a litigation plan within four months of the first statement of defence, with the court steering files toward trial inside three years. Deadlines that used to drift are now on a schedule — which rewards teams whose evidence pipeline starts moving the week the claim is served.
The local rules
Disclosure under the
Alberta Rules of Court.
Alberta’s instrument is the sworn affidavit of records in Form 26. Under Part 5 of the Alberta Rules of Court, a plaintiff serves it within three months of being served with a statement of defence, and a defendant within two months of receiving the plaintiff’s — disclosing every record that is “relevant and material” to the issues in the pleadings. That standard, defined in Rule 5.2, is narrower than the old trains of inquiry: a record qualifies only if it could reasonably be expected to significantly help determine an issue.
“Record” is defined broadly enough to cover everything we process for a living — any information or data capable of being represented or reproduced visually or by sound — so mailboxes, chat exports and mobile data all belong in the collection plan, filtered against relevance and materiality before anyone swears to anything.
The newest layer is scheduling. Under the court’s notice NPP2025-02, actions commenced on or after September 1, 2025 must file a litigation plan within four months of the first defence, against a 36-month civil trial target. The affidavit-of-records dates in that plan are commitments now, not aspirations — and the evidence work has to be scoped early enough to honour them.
Drafting the disclosure side of a litigation plan? Our free discovery protocol generator produces an Alberta-ready protocol — affidavit-of-records dates, production format, Form 26 mechanics — that you can edit in Word.
What we do
One stage, several,
or all of it.
From litigation hold to trial, we run the evidence side of disputes for teams in Alberta. One stage, several, or end to end — the strategy stays yours, and the work comes back in a state opposing counsel cannot pick apart.
Preserve & collect
Litigation holds, custodian interviews and defensible collection from M365, Google Workspace, mobile devices and the DMS — with hashes and chain of custody.
Process & assess
Everything into one reviewable set — deduplicated, threaded, de-NISTed — and an early cut that drops the volume you pay to host.
Review
Bilingual reviewers inside Nuix Discover, with Claira handling first-pass volume and showing its reasoning. Your team keeps every call.
Produce & defend
Exchange-ready productions in the agreed format, with the paperwork — schedules, logs, affidavits — that makes them stick.
The full menu — from litigation holds to trial support — is on our services page. If you want the platform rather than the people, we host Nuix Discover in Canada with Claira for AI-assisted review, and we run platform migrations from Relativity, Ipro and everything else.
Managed review
Document review support in Alberta.
Review is where eDiscovery budgets go to die, so it is where we put the most structure. Documents arrive grouped with their threads, families and near-duplicates; first-pass volume goes through Claira, AI-assisted review inside Nuix Discover that shows its reasoning on every call; and bilingual reviewers make the decisions that matter.
For teams in Alberta, that means review support that scales without a hiring spree — staffed quickly, QC-sampled throughout, with privilege screening, redactions and a defensibility record you can stand behind in court.
FAQ
The usual
questions.
What changed with Alberta’s mandatory litigation plans?
For non-family civil actions commenced on or after September 1, 2025, the parties must agree and file a litigation plan within four months of the first statement of defence (court notice NPP2025-02), and the court is steering files toward trial within 36 months. The affidavit-of-records and production dates in that plan arrive fast — we scope and start the evidence work so they hold.
Can you review documents in French and English?
Yes — bilingual review, correspondence and productions are the default at noticia, not an add-on line item. Reviewers work in both languages, and productions go out in whichever language the matter calls for.
How fast can a review start?
Processing starts as soon as data lands, and a calibrated review team — with Claira carrying the first pass — is usually making calls within days of scope being agreed, not weeks.
Where we work
The same discipline,
wherever the matter sits.
Electronic evidence does not care which courthouse it is headed for; the local rules do. We work under all of them.
Start with
a scope.
Send a note about the matter and a senior member of the team replies inside two business days — or today, if it cannot wait.