Individuals accessing the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench to resolve family law disputes are often required to provide sensitive financial and personal information to the Court. The Court keeps a file which, until recently, was typically accessible to the public. Out of concern for the privacy of family law litigants, Practice Note 10 was developed to set a procedure for accessing a family law file in the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta. Anyone may access a procedure card and scheduling information, but only certain individuals may access the Court’s file: a party to the action; a lawyer of record; a lawyer for the child(ren) of a party; a government employee acting in the course of employment in respect of the file; a person authorized to access the file by a party/lawyer of record/lawyer for the child(ren) by means of a filed “Authority to Access Family Law File”; and members of the media accredited by the Court. A process is in place for other individuals to request access to the Court’s file.
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