Program directory · Courts Administration Service
Registry Services
- Department
- Courts Administration Service
- Program code
- BEG02 (CAS)
- Core responsibility
- Administration services supporting Canada’s national Courts
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2025-26 · Appeared and later dropped
What it does
Registry services are delivered under the jurisdiction of the Federal Court of Appeal, the Federal Court, the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada and the Tax Court of Canada. The registries process legal documents, provide information to litigants on court procedures, maintain court records, participate in court hearings, support and assist in the enforcement of court orders, and work closely with the offices of the four Chief Justices to ensure that matters are heard and decisions are rendered in a timely manner. Registry services are offered in every province and territory through a network of permanent offices and agreements with provincial and territorial partners.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registry Services | This program | 2018-19 – 2027-28 | $226M |
| Judicial Support and Registry Services. | Later program (name match, medium confidence) | 2026-27 – 2028-29 | — |
Significant changes in scope and budget
Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | Appears to be replaced by Judicial Support and Registry Services. | Canada Spends name match across plans (an inference) |
Success criteria
The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.
Historical: targets against results
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 95% | 2019 | 93% The variance between the actual result and the target is due to insufficient financial and human resources that were available to meet the volume of decisions requiring translation. Although some funding was received in 2018–19, it was used to address the backlog of decisions requiring translation. | Not met |
| 2019-20 | ≥ 95% | 2020 | 92% The variance between the actual result and the target is due to the prioritization of efforts to address the backlog of decisions requiring translation. | Not met |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 95% | 2021 | 80% Delays in translation of decisions caused by COVID-19. | Not met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 95% | 2022 | 97% Delays in translation caused by COVID-19 have largely receded, allowing results to achieve targets. | Met |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 95% | 2023 | 90% Due to the prioritization of efforts to resolve the backlog of decisions requiring translation, the difference between the actual result and the objective is greater than anticipated. | Not met |
| 2023-24 | 95% – 100% | 2024 | 94% Due to the prioritization of efforts to resolve the backlog of decisions requiring translation, the difference between the actual result and the objective is greater than anticipated. | Not met |
| 2024-25 | 95% – 100% | 2025 | 98% | Met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $24M | $27.2M |
| 2019-20 | $28.6M | $28.5M |
| 2020-21 | $28.5M | $32.7M |
| 2021-22 | $28.4M | $30.5M |
| 2022-23 | $29.2M | $32.5M |
| 2023-24 | $31.6M | $38.1M |
| 2024-25 | $33.7M | $36.1M |
| 2025-26 | $40.2M | — |
| 2026-27 | $35.8M* | — |
| 2027-28 | $34.4M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 268 | 302 |
| 2019-20 | 328 | 335 |
| 2020-21 | 329 | 344 |
| 2021-22 | 340 | 333 |
| 2022-23 | 346 | 352 |
| 2023-24 | 362 | 357 |
| 2024-25 | 364 | 372 |
| 2025-26 | 373 | — |
| 2026-27 | 373* | — |
| 2027-28 | 373* | — |
Planned spending, plan by plan
Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans
| Plan | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $23,961,763 | $23,699,762 | $23,726,350 | |||||||
| 2019-20 plan | $28,573,342 | $28,634,755 | $28,664,580 | |||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $28,541,347 | $27,307,905 | $27,409,325 | |||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $28,371,246 | $28,254,961 | $27,451,998 | |||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $29,159,950 | $28,279,063 | $28,290,422 | |||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $31,635,553 | $30,755,981 | $30,824,987 | |||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $33,681,830 | $33,909,519 | $34,012,039 | |||||||
| 2025-26 plan | $40,190,316 | $35,771,027 | $34,449,587 | |||||||
| Actual | $27,206,921 | $28,527,741 | $32,726,973 | $30,502,584 | $32,483,780 | $38,084,735 | $36,058,449 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
