eDiscovery Canada · Nova Scotia
eDiscovery in
Nova Scotia.
Nova Scotia wrote Canada’s first dedicated electronic-disclosure rule, and it expects real work: preservation, thorough keyword searches, a sworn ESI affidavit. We do exactly that work.
Bilingual EN + FRData hosted in CanadaNo ingestion feesSenior-led
Where the ESI rule
came first.
When Nova Scotia’s Civil Procedure Rules arrived in 2009, they carried something no other province had: a rule written specifically for electronic information. Rule 16 does not treat email as an awkward kind of paper — it defines electronic information down to the metadata, imposes preservation and search duties in plain terms, and gives parties a defensible “sufficient search” standard to work to.
That maps one-to-one onto what noticia does: exact-copy preservation, documented collections, keyword search design and testing, hosted review, and disclosure affidavits your client can swear without flinching. We support Nova Scotia firms and in-house teams remotely, with data hosted in Canada and no minimum volumes.
The local rules
Rules 14 to 16,
in practice.
Nova Scotia’s framework starts from a presumption of full disclosure: Rule 14.08 presumes that fully disclosing relevant documents and electronic information is necessary for justice, and a party who wants to narrow that carries the burden of showing proportionality demands it. Relevance carries its trial meaning (Rule 14.01), and “electronic information” is defined to include metadata and computer-generated records (Rule 14.02).
Rule 16 then gets specific. A party who knows a proceeding will be defended must preserve relevant electronic information — expressly including what could be found “by performing thorough keyword searches” — and must exactly copy what it preserves. Disclosure follows within 45 days of the close of pleadings through an Affidavit Disclosing Electronic Information, built on diligent efforts to identify sources, search accessible systems and obtain custodian-held data. The default “sufficient search” does not require free-space carving, deleted-file recovery or duplicate backup tapes — a sensible floor the parties can raise by agreement.
The rule also has an edge: deliberately or recklessly deleting relevant electronic information can be dealt with as an abuse of process under Rule 88. Preservation done early and documented well is the inexpensive insurance.
Starting documentary discovery in Nova Scotia? Our free discovery protocol generator drafts an editable, court-ready protocol you can adapt to the local rules.
What we do
eDiscovery,
à la carte.
Our services do not start at loading documents and do not end at producing them. For litigation teams in Nova Scotia, we work anywhere along the eDiscovery timeline — from the moment a matter is reasonably anticipated to the day the evidence is used at trial.
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.
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 Nova Scotia.
Supporting a review in Nova Scotia does not require a review floor downtown. Our reviewers work inside the hosted platform, on Canadian infrastructure, under the same confidentiality terms and protective orders as your own team.
You get first-pass relevance and issue coding with Claira’s AI assistance where it helps, privilege screening and redaction, objective coding, and QC sampling with the numbers to defend it — led by the same senior person who scoped the matter.
FAQ
Questions
we hear.
What does Nova Scotia’s Rule 16 actually require?
Three things, in sequence: preserve relevant electronic information (exactly copied, and including what thorough keyword searches would surface) as soon as you know the proceeding will be defended; make diligent efforts to identify and search your sources; and disclose within 45 days of the close of pleadings by a sworn Affidavit Disclosing Electronic Information. We run all three and keep the record that backs the affidavit.
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.
What does it cost to find out?
Nothing — scoping is free, the estimate is written, and it arrives fast. There are no ingestion fees, no minimum volumes and no long-term commitment: you buy the slice you need, whether that is a licence, a stage of the work, or the whole file.
Where we work
eDiscovery,
across Canada.
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.