Law360 Canada has published Six Months of Tracking Toronto Civil Court Delays: What the Data Shows, an analysis by Courtready co-founder Tom Macintosh Zheng.

Since November 2025, Courtready has tracked the earliest available hearing date on the Toronto Superior Court of Justice’s online booking system every day, across nine categories of civil hearings. The article presents four findings from six consecutive months of observations.

The data shows that court dates arrive in batches, that the booking system regularly displays no available dates for extended stretches, and that short-notice openings appear and disappear without any notification to litigants who need them. It also shows that average wait times have improved: from 171 days in November 2025 to 104 days in April 2026. Seven of nine hearing categories got shorter over the period.

The article argues that access to an earlier court date currently depends on who has the bandwidth to monitor the booking page. A firm that can task a student with refreshing the page captures more openings than a self-represented litigant or a solo practitioner. The booking system works. The next step is notification.

Read the full article at Law360 Canada.

Access to justice should not depend on who has the means to refresh the booking page the most.