Initial Appearance Checklist
- Arraignment
- Reading of Charges / Waiving of Reading of Charges
- Crown Election
- Crown Election (if applicable)
- Reading Election (if applicable)
- Publication Bans
- General Publication Ban (486.5)
- Sexual Offence Publication Ban (486.4(1))
- Publication Ban For Underage Victims (486.4(2))
- Representation
- Retained counsel of Choice / Applied for Legal Aid counsel
- Disclosure
- Adequate initial disclosure made
- Defence Election and Plea
- Language of Trial
- Defence Election (if applicable)
- Defence Plea
- Bail
- Consent Remand / Schedule a Show Cause
- contact conditions while in custody
- Not Guilty Plea
- Defence choice of language of trial (English/French)
- Not Guilty Plea - multiple informations
- Consent to Joint Trial on Informations (where evidence overlaps)
- Consent to Same Trial Judge Hearing Both cases (where judge is assigned at plea)