Program directory · Courts Administration Service

Judicial Support and Registry Services.

Department: Courts Administration Service
Program code: BEG05 (CAS)
Core responsibility: Administration services supporting Canada’s national Courts
In Departmental Plans: 2026-27 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

The Judicial Support Services provides legal services and judicial administrative support to assist members of the Federal Court of Appeal, the Federal Court, the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada and the Tax Court of Canada in the discharge of their judicial functions. These services are provided by legal counsel, judicial administrators, law clerks, jurilinguists, judicial assistants, library personnel and court attendants, under the direction of the four Chief Justices.

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 the Departmental Plans in 2026-27. 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).

Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.

Program	Relation	Years with data	Actual spending over those years
Judicial Services	Earlier program (name match, medium confidence)	2018-19 – 2027-28	$226M
Registry Services	Earlier program (name match, medium confidence)	2018-19 – 2027-28	$226M
Judicial Support and Registry Services.	This program	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 combine earlier programs: Judicial Services; 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

No results reported yet.

Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets

Level of satisfaction of Members of the Courts with the quality of courts administration services offered by CAS.

Expected result: Members of the Courts receive the services they need to discharge their judicial functions. Registry services allow matters to be heard, and decisions to be rendered promptly.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	—	2027	—	Planned

Percentage of court documents that are filed electronically.

Expected result: Members of the Courts receive the services they need to discharge their judicial functions. Registry services allow matters to be heard, and decisions to be rendered promptly.

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	80% – 100%	2027	—	Planned

Percentage of courtrooms equipped with technology that allows for technology-enabled hearings, as well as for remote or hybrid hearings.

Expected result: Members of the Courts receive the services they need to discharge their judicial functions. Registry services allow matters to be heard, and decisions to be rendered promptly.

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	64% – 100%	2027	—	Planned

Percentage of filed documents that are processed by the registry within timeframes established by each Court.

Expected result: Members of the Courts receive the services they need to discharge their judicial functions. Registry services allow matters to be heard, and decisions to be rendered promptly.

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	90% – 100%	2027	—	Planned

Future goals: targets due after 2026-27

No targets with a later due date.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.

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Fiscal year	Planned	Actual
2026-27	$157M	—
2027-28	$172M*	—
2028-29	$130M*	—

Employees (FTEs)

Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.

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Fiscal year	Planned	Actual
2026-27	634	—
2027-28	622*	—
2028-29	635*	—

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	2026-27	2027-28	2028-29
2026-27 plan	$157,220,282	$172,115,782	$130,029,328
Actual

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.