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a) Disputes filed - 18 months b) Inquiries - 2 years c) Payment profile -5 years d) Information related to a consumers payment behavior such as slow payer, defaulted or absconded - 1 year e) Information relating to the action that a credit provider has taken against a consumer to enforce a debt such as handed over, legal action or write - off - 2 years f) Debt restructuring - Until a clearance certificate is given g) Civil court judgments - 5 years or until the court removes it h) Administration orders (orders to put a consumer under administration)- 10 years or until the court removes it i) Sequestrations (order given by the court where the consumer is insolvent)- 10 years or until the court removes it j) Liquidations (order given by the court where the consumer is insolvent)- no time limit k) Court order removing a liquidation or sequestrations after all the debt was paid - 5 years l) Other information (information not covered above)- 2 years Other Useful Topics Learn how to dispute information on your credit report in South Africa.

These two documents complement our podcast with Shannon Salter, the Chair of British Columbia's Civil Resolution Tribunal, about the successes and failures of using online dispute resolution in British Columbia, and how these technologies can be replicated in the U.S..

Most disputes over how fees have been used or whether they've been earned are referred to the Legal Fee Arbitration Committee of the Colorado Bar Association, or to a different arbitration forum, mediation or the civil courts.

From September 2014 — September 2015 researchers at the Winkler Institute for Dispute Resolution conducted over 30 interviews and 5 focus groups with justice stakeholders including lawyers, legal educators, legal entrepreneurs, legal clinic staff, policy makers, governments, judges, trusted intermediaries and users, in order to gain insight into how we might build capacity for innovation within the civil -LSB-...]

The Civil Justice Council is exploring how online and internet - based techniques can be more widely used to resolve disputes valued at less than # 25,000.

In a recent trilogy of short articles for The Lawyer's Daily, ADR@SGR mediator Mitchell Rose wrote about how lawyers can maximize settlement opportunities at mediation in various types of civil disputes, including wrongful dismissal, personal injury and real property matters.

From September 2014 — September 2015 researchers at the Winkler Institute for Dispute Resolution conducted over 30 interviews and 5 focus groups with justice stakeholders including lawyers, legal educators, legal entrepreneurs, legal clinic staff, policy makers, governments, judges, trusted intermediaries and users, in order to gain insight into how we might build capacity for innovation within the civil justice system and what specific innovations are required.

As a result of the scarce judicial resources, judges must make decisions about how to best use these resources if the public system wants to maintain its position as the primary system in adjudicating civil disputes and in driving the development of civil case law.

A judge who had been a labour lawyer once remarked in my presence (so this is the only citation you get)-- in exactly this context of the potential threat to lawyers» practices from ADR in civil litigation — that the practice of labour law showed how lawyers could make a good living resolving a lot of disputes quickly, rather than through the traditional civil litigation model of mining a few cases deeply over a long period.

A common area of dispute in civil cases is how far a claimant, who has to incur legal costs against a third party as a result of a wrong committed by the defendant and fails to recover those costs in full from the third party, can then recover them as damages from the defendant.

Through discussion on theory, case studies, exercises and role - plays, participants will have the opportunity to learn how to facilitate complex civil disputes and multiparty meetings.