Free tool
Court deadline calculator
Count forward or back from a triggering date, with weekends and the court holidays taken out. It does the arithmetic; you bring the rule.
A negative number counts backwards, for a step that has to happen so many days before the event.
Enter a date and a whole number of days.
What it does and doesn’t know
It knows which days the courts are closed and how to count around them. Counting business days skips those days; a date that lands on one moves to the next open day, and moves earlier rather than later when you are counting backwards, so a period of notice never quietly gets shorter.
It does not know what any deadline is. It will not tell you that a defence is due in twenty days, and it cannot know about a day proclaimed after this page was updated or a closure at your own courthouse. Check the answer against the rule you are working to.
Doing this by hand for every file
Freeboard runs this calculation inside the matter, records the triggering date and the offset it came from, and locks the result so a limitation date cannot be changed quietly afterwards. Your firm keeps its own holiday list, so the days it counts are the ones your court actually observes.