Courts Administration Service’s 2025-26 Departmental plan: At a glance

A departmental plan describes a department’s priorities, plans, and associated costs for the upcoming three fiscal years.

• Vision, mission, raison d’être and operating context

Read the full departmental plan

Key priorities

Courts Administration Service’s (CAS) top priorities for 2025-26 are as follows:

• Digital Courts: Deliver digital services and solutions that are modern, stable and resilient to meet the needs of the Courts, users of the justice system and our people including data integration that enable key insights on operations.
• Our People: Attract a highly skilled, engaged and digitally ready workforce while creating a workplace of belonging in an organization that is diverse, inclusive, and equitable.
• Court facilities: Deliver modern, accessible, secure and digitally enabled court facilities that reduce our environmental impact, optimize court business, and best meet the needs of the Courts, users of the justice system and our people.
• Service excellence: Provide client-centric services that are consistent, high-quality, reliable, timely, and digitally enabled, provided in both official languages. Modernize our practices, processes and tools, and integrate new business and technological solutions.
• Governance and Management Excellence: Ensure CAS-Court governance framework that facilitates and supports strategic, transparent direction setting, decision-making and accountability using accurate and reliable data that drives service excellence and performance improvement. Optimize our work environment and strengthen management excellence.

Highlights

In 2025-26, total planned spending (including internal services) for CAS is $208,740,525 and total planned full-time equivalent staff (including internal services) is 874. For complete information on CAS’s total planned spending and human resources, read Planned spending and human resources section of the full plan.

The following provides a summary of the department’s planned achievements for 2025-26 according to its approved Departmental Results Framework. A Departmental Results Framework consists of a department’s core responsibilities, the results it plans to achieve, and the performance indicators that measure progress toward these results.

Core responsibility 1: Administration services for the federal Courts

Planned spending: $175,687,764

Planned human resources: 622

Departmental results:

• Members of the Courts are provided with the required information and support services to hear matters and render decisions.
• Members of the Courts, court users and the public can access court services, court decisions and processes electronically without undue delays.
• The Courts maintain their ability, as the government’s independent judicial branch, to protect judicial independence.

Given recent reductions to our operational budget to support the Courts, CAS will address funding challenges by continuing to streamline operations, realigning reduced resources, and achieving efficiencies wherever possible, such as improving national consistency in court registry operations. CAS will also align services to reduced funding levels and keep litigants informed of revised service standards and of any increase in backlogs or delays in cases before the Courts.

To support our people at a time of fiscal restraint, CAS will develop and implement a sustainable and integrated human resources strategy and invest in the engagement, retention and development of employees to meet the current and future needs of the Courts.

CAS will also continue to deliver on key departmental results as it relates to its efforts in leveraging modern technology to enhance digital court operations, strengthening cybersecurity to protect information, ensuring system resilience, and refining digital solutions to better serve litigants.

CAS will continue to deliver on phase 1 and 2 of the National Courts Facilities Modernization Program to refresh and build new Court facilities to ensure they are secure, modern, inclusive, accessible and fully equipped with the technology necessary to support in-person, virtual and hybrid hearings.

CAS will also continue to improve its governance practices to accelerate decision-making.

More information about the Administration services for the federal Courts can be found in the full plan.