Date: 2011-06-24 Docket: 200501T5570  D. Fry J. | Link
In a suit for wrongful dismissal started in May 2005 and following several problems with production resulting in the need for intervention, the court defines precisely what information it expects to have been exchanged one week before the Pre-Trial Conference, starting at para 23. Similar to the kind of information needed for a discovery plan.

Date: 2011-04-26 Docket: 09-CV-387984. Perell J. |Link
The court set aside a decision in which the Master ordered the search through millions of pages of documents extending back 35 years.

Date:2010-04-26 Docket: 07-CV-340006PD1  Master Glustein. | Link
Starting at para 41, the Master discusses what is covered in a discovery plan, and states that the plan does not need to identify key documents or issues for examinations for discovery. Rather, the purpose of the discovery plan is "is to ensure that counsel meet promptly to attempt agree on the "plan" that will govern the discovery process; i.e. the extent of documentary production required, the anticipated timing and length of the examinations for discovery, and the names of the persons intended to be produced for examinations for discovery."  (Editor's note: might be a problem of terminology, since standard practice in e-discovery is to agree on names of key custodians - i.e. those sources most likely to yield relevant information.)

Date: 2010-08-25 Docket: 5234/06 J.R. Henderson J. | Link
This decision deals with motions regarding amendments to pleadings, production of documents, examinations for discovery, and the imposition of a Discovery Plan.

Rule 29.1 of the Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure was introduced in January 2010 and requires the preparation of a discovery plan. Section 29.1.03(3) states that the plan shall include:

Date: 2010-05-17 Docket: 07-CV-08 -361484 Master Short. | Link

Addresses the situation where one of the parties refuses to "agree" on a discovery plan. The Master concludes that the court has the authority under Rule 1.04 (1.1) to impose a Discovery Plan upon an unwilling party.