Four free tools for Manitoba: every available hearing date at the Winnipeg Court of King’s Bench, a deadline calculator built on Rule 3.01, a prejudgment and postjudgment interest calculator, and a checker for what each Manitoba court and tribunal requires when you use AI.
Today we are launching four free tools for Manitoba: the Winnipeg Court Dates Finder, the Manitoba Litigation Deadlines Calculator, the Manitoba Prejudgment and Postjudgment Interest Calculator, and Can I Use AI in Court in Manitoba?
All four are free, none require an account, and each one links to the rule, practice direction or registry page it draws on. Here is what each does.
Winnipeg Court Dates Finder
The Manitoba Court Registry publishes the next available hearing dates for the Winnipeg Court of King’s Bench through its own public booking pages, hearing type by hearing type. That openness is what makes this tool possible.
The Winnipeg Court Dates Finder reads all 40 Winnipeg hearing lists five times a day and brings them together on one screen. You can sort by the soonest date or the longest wait, or search for the kind of matter you have. Each hearing type shows its earliest available date, how far away that is, and every other date currently open. Two timestamps sit at the top of the page: when we last checked, and when the court last refreshed its own database.
Where a list has no dates showing at the moment, you can leave your email address and we will send one message when a date next appears on it. The tool is a reference view of public information and cannot book anything. To book, or to confirm a date before you rely on it, contact the Winnipeg registry directly.
Manitoba Litigation Deadlines Calculator
This calculator computes deadlines in the Court of King’s Bench under Rule 3.01 of the Court of King’s Bench Rules, M.R. 553/88, using the holiday list in Rule 1.03. It runs in three modes: a deadline a set number of days after an event, a deadline a set number of days before an event, and a straight count of the days between two dates.
It applies each step of Rule 3.01 in turn. The first day is excluded and the last day included. Where the prescribed period is less than seven days, holidays are not counted at all under Rule 3.01(b). Where the deadline lands on a holiday, it moves to the next day that is not a holiday under Rule 3.01(c). If you tell it that your event date is the date of service of a non-originating process, it applies the Rule 3.01(d) deeming for service after 5 p.m. or on a holiday.
The Rule 1.03 holiday list is built in, including Louis Riel Day, Easter Monday and Boxing Day, along with the rule that deems the preceding non-holiday to be a holiday where a holiday falls on a Saturday. That is why December 24, 2026 registers as a court holiday. The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is not named in Rule 1.03, so the calculator reports the date the Rules produce, flags that the courts are closed on September 30, and recommends the previous open court day.
Every result comes with a plain-language explanation of how each rule was applied, a recommended action date one open court day earlier as a safety margin, and calendar export.
Manitoba Prejudgment and Postjudgment Interest Calculator
This calculator works out both prejudgment and postjudgment interest under Part XIV of The Court of King’s Bench Act, C.C.S.M. c. C280, at the quarterly rates published by the Court of King’s Bench under s. 79(1). One published table serves both, and the rate is fixed at a single quarter: the quarter the proceeding was commenced for prejudgment interest, and the quarter judgment was given for postjudgment interest.
On the prejudgment side, it first asks what kind of claim you have, because that sets the start date. Interest on a fixed amount runs from the day the cause of action arose under s. 80(1)(a). Interest on an amount a judge had to assess runs from the day written notice was given under s. 80(1)(b). It then applies the narrow definition of principal sum in s. 78, which leaves out special damages, pain and suffering, future losses, punitive damages, costs and any MPIC reduction. Special damages are handled separately in six month blocks under s. 80(2), with an optional column for an MPIC reduction against the block it belongs to, and non-pecuniary damages earn no interest under s. 80(3). Where s. 82 switches the regime off, the calculator says so rather than producing a figure.
On the postjudgment side, it runs interest under s. 84 on the whole judgment debt, including costs and the prejudgment interest that s. 87 counts as part of the order, and it keeps running while the order is stayed or under appeal. You can enter payments received since the order, and choose whether costs were fixed by the judge or assessed later, which changes the day interest starts on them. Rates are transcribed exactly as the court publishes them, back to January 2014.
Can I Use AI in Court in Manitoba?
This tool answers a single question: can you use AI to prepare your case before a particular Manitoba court, tribunal or board? It covers eight bodies, being every Manitoba court plus every Manitoba tribunal and board with at least 100 decisions on CanLII. Choose your forum and it tells you whether AI is permitted, what the governing practice direction says, and whether you have to declare that you used it, with a link to the source and an option to email the answer to yourself.
The Court of King’s Bench requires that where AI was used to prepare materials filed with the court, the materials indicate how it was used, under a practice direction dated June 23, 2023. The Manitoba Labour Board requires disclosure in the first paragraph of your submissions, identifying the exact sections, paragraphs and page numbers, and does not permit AI to be used to create witness statements, affidavits or other documents relied on as evidence. Six of the eight bodies have no AI-specific policy, in which case the tool sets out the general duties that still apply: you are responsible for the accuracy of everything you file, and citing cases that do not exist can be treated as an attempt to mislead.
The answers are reviewed weekly, and every one carries the source it came from so you can read the rule yourself.
Four free Manitoba tools, each showing the rule behind the answer.