Deadlines in the Court of King's Bench are governed by Rule 3.01 of the Court of King's Bench Rules, M.R. 553/88. You count by excluding the day the first event happens and including the day the second event happens. Where the prescribed period is less than seven days, holidays are not counted. If the deadline lands on a holiday, it moves to the next day that is not a holiday. This calculator applies all three steps and shows its reasoning for each one.

Use after when a rule gives you a number of days following an event, such as filing and serving a statement of defence within 20 days after service of the statement of claim under Rule 18.01(a). Use before when a rule requires you to act a number of days ahead of an event, such as the 30 days notice to require an expert to attend under Rule 53.03(2). Use between simply to count the days separating two dates.

Rule 1.03 sets out its own list: every Saturday and Sunday, any day proclaimed a holiday by the Governor General or Lieutenant Governor, New Year's Day, Louis Riel Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Victoria Day, Canada Day, the Civic Holiday, Labour Day, Thanksgiving Day, Remembrance Day, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. That list is broader than the general holidays under The Employment Standards Code, so a statutory holiday list is the wrong tool for computing court deadlines.

No. Rule 3.01(b) excludes holidays from the count only where the prescribed period is less than seven days. A period of exactly seven days counts holidays, weekends included, and the deadline is then pushed forward if it happens to land on one. That one day boundary changes the answer by several days in practice, so read the number your rule actually prescribes rather than rounding it in your head.

Rule 1.03 provides that where a holiday falls on a Saturday, the first preceding day that is not a holiday is deemed to be a holiday, and where a holiday falls on a Sunday, the first following day that is not a holiday is deemed to be a holiday. When Christmas Day or Boxing Day falls on a Saturday, that backward rule reaches December 24. The same mechanism can make December 31, June 30 or November 10 a court holiday.

Under Rule 3.01(d), service of a document other than an originating process after 5 p.m., or at any time on a holiday, is deemed to have happened on the next day that is not a holiday. The calculator applies that deeming and counts from the deemed date. The rule does not apply to an originating process, which under Rule 1.03 means a statement of claim, a notice of application, a petition, a counterclaim against a person who is not already a party, or a third or subsequent party claim.

Rule 1.03 does not list the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, so it does not extend a deadline under the Rules. The Manitoba Courts do close that day, and the Chief Justices confirm each year that the courts will not sit and that court offices operate on a usual statutory holiday basis. The calculator therefore reports the date the Rules produce, warns you, and recommends completing the step on the previous open court day.

Alongside the deadline under the Rules, the calculator shows a recommended action date one open court day earlier. It is a safety margin, not the legal deadline, and it absorbs registry closures, filing delays and any holiday proclaimed under Rule 1.03(b) that the tool cannot know about. Because it skips weekends and holidays it can be several calendar days earlier. If your rule sets both a minimum and a maximum period, confirm that acting earlier stays inside the permitted window.