Collection Spotlight - October 7 2025

Are you struggling with wording for a breach of contract claim? Maybe you’d really like to see an example of a retainer agreement? Drafting an Anton Piller Order? Or are you going to court in Ontario and need some drafting help?

If so, then Ontario Court Forms by W.B. Williston and R.J. Rolls is the book for you!

While it focuses on the Ontario courts, this title is still a valuable resource for drafting court documents and has helpful wording for various precedent forms for your BC practice. This title can help you with precedents in many areas, such as:

  • Preliminary and pre-trial matters such as retainer agreements, change of lawyer, place of trial, and offers to settle
  • Originating pleadings with examples of specific types of pleadings, titles of proceedings, and service of documents
  • Specific parties and joinder of parties, including joinder of both claims and parties, parties under disability, and intervention
  • Dispositions without trial such as default proceedings, summary judgments, discontinuance, and withdrawal
  • Motions including injunctions and stays of proceedings
  • Discovery such as discovery of documents, electronic discovery, and examination for discovery
  • Settlement, costs and judgments/orders, appeals and miscellaneous types of proceedings.

Ontario Court Forms is available on the public access computers at all our Courthouse Libraries locations. Next time you’re in the library, search for the title in the library catalogue on the computer and click on the digital access link; this will take you straight to the digital title in Lexis Advance. From here, you can download each precedent in Word format, so you can get started with drafting fast.

We also have this title available in print. If you want to borrow the book or request scans through our document delivery service, please contact us at librarian@courthouselibrary.ca or 1-800-665-2570.

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