eDiscovery Canada
eDiscovery,
across Canada.
Thirteen sets of court rules, two official languages, one discipline. noticia runs the evidence side of Canadian disputes — collection to production — with data that never leaves the country.
Bilingual EN + FRData hosted in CanadaNo ingestion feesSenior-led
Canadian evidence,
handled in Canada.
noticia is a Canadian eDiscovery and evidence-management team, working from Ottawa and Montréal for law firms, in-house counsel and public bodies across the country. We take matters from litigation hold to trial — or any single stage between — with a senior person accountable for the whole pipeline.
Two things stay constant wherever the matter sits: the review is bilingual by default, because Canadian records are; and the data stays on Canadian infrastructure certified to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, because for many clients — governments, banks, anyone answering to a privacy regulator — residency is not a preference but a requirement.
The national picture
One country,
thirteen rulebooks.
Canada has no single law of discovery. Ontario demands a written discovery plan and an affidavit of documents; British Columbia wants a Form 22 list scoped to material facts; Alberta swears a Form 26 affidavit of records against a relevant-and-material standard; Québec plans disclosure through the protocole de l’instance; Nova Scotia wrote the country’s first dedicated electronic-information rule; Saskatchewan applies a court e-discovery directive by rule. Deadlines run from ten days to three months, and the Federal Court — the national forum for intellectual property, immigration and administrative disputes — keeps its own regime, with an affidavit of documents due 30 days after pleadings close and a notice requiring parties to declare AI-generated content in filings.
What holds it together is the Sedona Canada Principles Addressing Electronic Discovery, now in their third edition — proportionality, cooperation, defensible process — cited by rules and courts across the country. We plan every matter on that foundation, then localize it: the right instrument, the right deadline, the right format for the court it is headed to.
Privacy law follows the data the whole way — PIPEDA federally, Québec’s Law 25 provincially — which is one more reason review that stays on Canadian infrastructure is the comfortable default.
Wherever the matter sits, our free discovery protocol generator drafts a court-ready discovery protocol — dedicated clause sets for Ontario, BC, Alberta, Québec and the Federal Court, and a neutral set for everywhere else.
What we do
The hard parts,
handled.
From litigation hold to trial, we run the evidence side of disputes for teams across Canada. 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
The hold in place, the custodians interviewed, the data collected forensically — from mailboxes and chat platforms to phones and twelve binders of paper.
Process & assess
Best-in-class processing into one consistent, deduplicated set, then an early assessment that strips the obvious noise before a lawyer reads a page.
Review
Managed review, properly staffed: relevance, issues and privilege coded by bilingual reviewers, with AI assistance that shows its work.
Produce & defend
Productions built for whoever is on the other side — load files, redactions, privilege logs and the affidavit or list of documents to back them.
See the full menu of services, the review platforms we host in Canada, or how a migration to Nuix Discover runs. Whatever slice you take, the strategy stays yours.
Managed review
Document review support across Canada.
When the set is too big for the litigation team to read on the side of a desk, we staff it: trained bilingual reviewers, senior oversight, calibration against your instructions, and QC sampling that is reported, not asserted.
AI carries the first pass where it helps — Claira works inside Nuix Discover and shows its reasoning document by document — and can cut review time by up to 80%, while relevance, issue and privilege calls stay with people accountable to you.
FAQ
Questions
we hear.
Which rules govern eDiscovery in Canada?
Each court’s own: every province and territory has civil rules with their own disclosure instrument and deadlines, and the Federal Courts Rules govern federal matters. The connective tissue is the Sedona Canada Principles, which courts and rules across the country point to. We run the same defensible process everywhere and adapt the outputs to the local rulebook — see our province pages below for the specifics.
Can one team handle a multi-province dispute?
That is precisely our shape. One hosted, bilingual evidence set serves every related proceeding; privilege and relevance get coded once, consistently; and productions are cut per forum — an Ontario affidavit of documents here, a BC Form 22 list there, a Québec protocole schedule across the river.
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 does our data live?
In Canada. Review runs on Canadian-hosted infrastructure certified to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, and your documents stay here through processing, hosting, review and production.
Where we work
The same discipline,
wherever the matter sits.
We support litigation teams coast to coast — remotely by default, on the ground when a collection calls for it.
Tell us about
the matter.
A scope and a written estimate inside two business days — same day when a deadline is already on the calendar. No obligation, and nothing you send goes anywhere else.