Sentences with phrase «lesser in civil lawsuits»

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Civil lawsuits, where the amount claimed is less than a specified dollar amount, are often resolved in small claims courts.

Although the pressures to settle are also present in American jurisdictions, our lower damages quantum, a distinct costs regimes (i.e. the English Rule), and legal reforms pressuring settlements means that Canadian civil lawsuits are far less likely to proceed to trial and produce a written judgment than American civil lawsuits are.

As reported in yesterday's New York Times, the soon - to - be-released study of civil lawsuits found that most plaintiffs who pass up settlement and go to trial end up with less than if they'd settled.