How to file a defence in Ontario Small Claims Court — and autofill your details with my-id.ca
File a Small Claims Court defence without retyping your contact details
Filing a Defence (Form 9A) in Ontario Small Claims Court asks for your name, address, and phone number alongside your grounds of defence. This guide is an example of storing those repeating contact fields in my-id.ca.
Official form and source
Start from the official Ontario source and always use the current version — form numbers and filing procedures can change:
- Service page: Small claims court: being sued — ontario.ca
What this form is about
When you are served with a Plaintiff's Claim in Small Claims Court, you must file Form 9A — Defence — to dispute the claim. Failure to file within the deadline may result in being noted in default.
Before you start: what to gather
- Your full name, address, and phone number (as defendant).
- A copy of the plaintiff's claim you were served with.
- Supporting documents — contracts, receipts, emails, or photos that support your defence.
Confirm the current filing deadline and court location on ontario.ca.
How my-id.ca makes it faster
- Store your contact details once. Save your name, address, and phone number in my-id.ca.
- Autofill the defendant fields. Use the my-id.ca Chrome extension on the court's e-filing portal, or fill a PDF of Form 9A from your saved profile inside my-id.ca.
- Write your grounds of defence yourself — describe your position and attach supporting documents.
- Serve and file on time. Serve a copy on each party and file with the court.
Why do it in my-id.ca
Defendant contact details appear on the Defence, any counterclaim, and related court correspondence. Stored once in my-id.ca — in Canada, with self-hosted AI — each court filing starts mostly filled.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Form 9A — Defence — ask for?
- The defendant's name, address, phone number, and the grounds for disputing the claim. my-id.ca stores your personal contact details for autofill; the defence grounds are yours to write.
- When must I file a defence?
- You generally have 20 calendar days from the date you were served with the plaintiff's claim. Confirm the current deadline on ontario.ca and act promptly.
- Does my-id.ca write my legal defence for me?
- No. my-id.ca autofills your personal information; you write the grounds of your defence yourself or with legal help.
Fill it once. Reuse it everywhere.
Save your information in my-id.ca once, then autofill this form and the next one — web forms with the Chrome extension, PDFs right in the app. Your data is stored in Canada and AI runs on my-id.ca's own servers, never sent to third-party AI providers.