If you have a lawyer already

If you have a lawyer, you can contact him or her to find out when your new court date will be. Please keep in mind, if you had a guilty plea date, sentencing date, or trial date arranged between March 17 and May 29, your lawyer will have to coordinate a new date with both the court office and the assigned Crown Attorney and that will take some time to organize. So please, be patient as we reschedule and finalize new dates. Keep in mind, nothing is happening before May 29th, so there is no need to panic and fill up our voicemails right now.

Major Update (March 26, 2020 at 7:01 pm): All clients who had a guilty plea, sentencing, or trial date set during the shutdown will NOT be able to even reschedule a new date until after May 1st.

If you have a first appearance before May 29

If you were recently arrested and released by the police with a court date in Winnipeg or rural Manitoba between now and May 29, 2020, please check the list below to see when your first court appearance will probably proceed. If you are feeling overwhelmed with all of this (and you don’t have a lawyer on your case already), please click here to contact me to set up a time to talk and I can help you with your first court date and your case.

If you want to be sure

You can always call the Provincial Court to confirm what your next court date will be by calling 204-945-3454, ext. 1 for English and then ext. 0 for reception. Once again, this announcement was only made on March 16th, so I would say wait at least a week or two so the court staff can be able to confirm when rescheduled court appearances will be held.