Since November 1, 2025, Courtready has captured the earliest available hearing date for nine types of civil proceedings at the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto. Observations are taken daily through Courtready’s Toronto Court Dates Finder, which automatically scans the Court’s online booking system at regular intervals. The ‘gap’ value reported throughout this report is the number of days between the observation date and the earliest available hearing date offered by the system.

Eleven hearing categories are tracked: Associate Judge motions under 75 minutes (in-person and virtual), Associate Judge motions 90–120 minutes (in-person and virtual), Civil Case Conference, Civil Practice Court, Express Court, Small Claims Rule 12 motions, Small Claims non–Rule 12 motions, Long Trial Scheduling Court, and Short Trial Scheduling. The two trial scheduling categories were added to the study starting April 1, 2026.

Monthly averages exclude days where no booking was available. Days with no dates available for booking are recorded separately. If a category had no bookable dates in an entire month, it is shown as None and is not counted in that month’s overall average.

‘Batch release’ events shown in Card 1 are identified where two or more categories improved by 50 days or more on the same day. Single-category day-over-day drops of 50 days or more are counted separately and reported in the Finding section.

Not all categories of civil hearings are measured in this study. Dates released through other means, such as motions heard directly by a judge or matters booked through the Commercial List, are not captured.