eDiscovery Canada · Ontario
eDiscovery
in Ontario.
From Rule 29.1 discovery plans to production-ready affidavits of documents, we run the evidence side of Ontario litigation — bilingual, Canadian-hosted, and priced à la carte.
Bilingual EN + FRData hosted in CanadaNo ingestion feesSenior-led
Evidence support for
Ontario litigation.
noticia is an eDiscovery and evidence-management team working with Ontario law firms, in-house departments and public bodies. We are the people you call when the custodian count doubles, when the other side’s production arrives broken, or when the review estimate lands and the file cannot absorb it.
The work is remote by design — data lives in Canadian data centres, review happens in a hosted platform, productions move by secure exchange — so a team in Thunder Bay gets the same service as one on University Avenue. What changes is the local law, and in Ontario we plan around the rules from day one.
The local rules
Discovery under
the Ontario rules.
Ontario is one of the few places in Canada where discovery planning is not optional. Rule 29.1 of the Rules of Civil Procedure requires parties to agree a written discovery plan within 60 days of the close of pleadings — covering the intended scope of documentary discovery, dates for the affidavits of documents and the manner of production — and Rule 29.1.03(4) directs them to consult the Sedona Canada Principles while they do it. The plan signed in week one decides most of the cost that follows.
The disclosure standard is every document “relevant to any matter in issue” (Rule 30.02), and “document” expressly includes data and information in electronic form — mailboxes, chat threads and shared drives are squarely in scope, tempered by proportionality under Rules 1.04(1.1) and 29.2. Hearings then run through Case Center, the Superior Court’s mandatory document-sharing platform, with a naming protocol of its own.
The rules are also mid-reform: the Civil Rules Review’s final report (December 2025) proposes replacing traditional discovery with an up-front evidence model. None of it is in force yet — discovery today still runs on Rules 29.1 and 30 — but matters starting now may finish under different rules, which is one more reason to build a clean, portable record from the start.
Facing a Rule 29.1 discovery plan? Our free discovery protocol generator drafts one on the Ontario rules — affidavit dates, production format, the Sedona Canada recitals — ready to edit in Word.
What we do
One stage, several,
or all of it.
We support law firms, in-house counsel and public bodies in Ontario along the whole eDiscovery timeline. Take one stage or hand over the file: our team becomes your team, and you buy only the slice you need.
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 in Ontario.
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 Ontario, 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
Questions
we hear.
Does Ontario require a discovery plan?
Yes. Under Rule 29.1 of the Rules of Civil Procedure, parties who intend documentary or oral discovery must agree a written discovery plan within 60 days of the close of pleadings, covering scope, timing and the manner of production — and must consult the Sedona Canada Principles in preparing it. Our discovery protocol generator drafts one you can edit.
Are the Ontario discovery rules changing?
Change is coming, but it has not arrived. The Civil Rules Review’s final report (December 2025) proposes an up-front evidence model that would replace much of traditional discovery; no such amendment is in force, and Rules 29.1 and 30 still govern. We track the reform so our clients’ protocols only get written once.
Do you have people in Ontario?
Our team works from Ottawa and Montréal, and matters in Ontario run the way modern eDiscovery runs everywhere — hosted review, remote collection tooling and video calls. Where your counsel sits does not change where your data sits: it stays in Canadian data centres. When an on-site collection is genuinely needed, we arrange it.
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
eDiscovery,
across Canada.
We support litigation teams coast to coast — remotely by default, on the ground when a collection calls for it.
Start with
a scope.
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.