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Under Rule 8 of the [http://canlii.ca/t/85pb Provincial Court Family Rules], a judge who sets a court proceeding for trial may also set a date for a trial preparation conference. The parties to the court proceeding are usually required to attend this conference, unless a party has a lawyer and they're available to speak with their lawyer by telephone if the lawyer needs to get instructions during the conference.
Trial preparation conferences are short hearings with before a judge in court to discuss how the trial will proceed and what, if any, additional steps must be taken to get the court proceeding ready for trial, such as exchanging documents and information, organizing experts' reports, or requiring that a views of the child report be prepared.
More information about trial preparation conferences can be found later in this chapter, in the section [[Family Law Trials in Provincial Court|Trials in the Provincial Court]].