Sentences with phrase «small claims court because»

The other driver had mentioned they might bring the case to small claims court because they were unhappy with the results of the mediation.

Still, there are some provincially appointed officials adjudicating disputes in the Small Claims Court because according to the Ontario Courts webpage there are currently two provincially appointed judges sitting (http://www.ontariocourts.ca/scj/judges/current/provincial-deputy/).

Shadi Amin, otherwise known as Soheila Amintorabi, brought claims against Arsham Parsi, otherwise known as Alireza Abrishami, in Toronto Small Claims Court because she believed he was behind anonymous posts on multiple websites and letters sent to Amnesty International and the BBC.

Not exact matches

Small claims court cases are much cheaper than superior court cases for both the plaintiff (the person doing the suing) and the defendant (the person being sued) because the parties are not allowed to have any attorneys represent them and other rules that simplify the lawsuit process, making the whole thing much cheaper, faster, and easier.

Its interesting that the Divisional Court reviewed whether the small claims court deputy judge could use the inherent jurisdiction of the court to extend the two week time limit for withdrawing a ESA, 2000 complaint because the deputy judge hearing my case was convinced that he did not have the inherent jurisdiction to dCourt reviewed whether the small claims court deputy judge could use the inherent jurisdiction of the court to extend the two week time limit for withdrawing a ESA, 2000 complaint because the deputy judge hearing my case was convinced that he did not have the inherent jurisdiction to dcourt deputy judge could use the inherent jurisdiction of the court to extend the two week time limit for withdrawing a ESA, 2000 complaint because the deputy judge hearing my case was convinced that he did not have the inherent jurisdiction to dcourt to extend the two week time limit for withdrawing a ESA, 2000 complaint because the deputy judge hearing my case was convinced that he did not have the inherent jurisdiction to do so.

Also, check your jurisdiction but you might need to sue in Circuit Court because the limit of jurisdiction for small claims court might be set at $ 5,000 as it is in many jurisdictCourt because the limit of jurisdiction for small claims court might be set at $ 5,000 as it is in many jurisdictcourt might be set at $ 5,000 as it is in many jurisdictions.

In one situation, she had the opportunity to go to Small Claims Court and presented the case to the judge because her colleague was giving evidence.

Douglas Simmons, a lawyer in North Carolina, initially started doing small claims court work because «it tied into eviction cases he was doing for landlords.»

The corporation argued that the owner should be denied costs because the amount of the damages awarded was within the financial jurisdiction of the Small Claims Court.

Hi Jonnette, my position is that because every judge of the Superior Court of Justice is also a judge of the Small Claims Court, the Small Claims Court is administratively a «branch» of the Superior Court and because deputy judges are appointed by Superior Court judges (something I did not realize before), the core jurisdiction of the Superior Court has not truly been removed.

I don't think it would affect Ontario because the small claims court in Ontario is a branch of the Superior Court of Juscourt in Ontario is a branch of the Superior Court of JusCourt of Justice.

Because costs are not available unless there is a statute allowing it, a cost - awarding power is intentionally omitted from the jurisdiction of the presiding judge or officer of informal or simplified proceedings such as arbitration, small claims and some family courts.

A multiplicity of proceedings with conflicting decisions would not result from the actions being conducted in different courts because the misrepresentation action relies on a different set of facts and a different body of law than the Small Claims Court actions

Because parties generally represent themselves, the procedures and rules of evidence in small claims court are more relaxed than in ordinary justice court.

Finally, proceeding with the Small Claims Court actions in the Superior Court in Toronto would place a burden on the franchisee because of increased cost in having to retain counsel and increased time in having the matters heard.

The paltry award is well within the $ 25,000 jurisdiction of the small claims court and placed the plaintiff at risk of being denied his costs for the action, despite his victory, because he had brought the action to the wrong court.

This happened in Garcia v. 1162540 Ontario Inc. (c.o.b. as Venice Fitness) 1 when the Divisional Court set aside damages awarded by a small claims court judge because the plaintiff had not led evidence of a loss of inCourt set aside damages awarded by a small claims court judge because the plaintiff had not led evidence of a loss of incourt judge because the plaintiff had not led evidence of a loss of income.

If that was not enough, the Government has placed a rule that in Small Claims Court you can not seek a declaration so ICBC often tries to stymie due process by arguing that the Small Claims Court has no jurisdiction to consider the insurance breach issue because it's a declaration of insurance.

The Supreme Court also found that, because the ET regime splits claims into «Type A» and «Type B» by perceived complexity, charging a higher fee for Type B claims, it discourages small Type B claims as the fee charged would be a disproportionate risk.

If California court did have jurisdiction (e.g. because the contract also called for performance of work in California as well as C1 and C2), a small claims court would probably have jurisdiction.

But it does not require real change in the court system or the legal profession, because nobody in the system is dependent on small claims.

In a recent appeal from the Small Claims Court, Justice Douglas confirmed in Tersigni v. Georgevitch that such claims are not mutually exclusive from one another, and just because a complainant could bring a derivative action does not prohibit them from proceeding by way of an oppression aClaims Court, Justice Douglas confirmed in Tersigni v. Georgevitch that such claims are not mutually exclusive from one another, and just because a complainant could bring a derivative action does not prohibit them from proceeding by way of an oppression aclaims are not mutually exclusive from one another, and just because a complainant could bring a derivative action does not prohibit them from proceeding by way of an oppression action.

This is important because the court knows that in many cases, both parties won't have legal advice, so most small claims matters are decided more on the facts than the law.

I also see the risk that costs penalties might not be delivered if plaintiff counsel does proceed in Supreme Court and gets only small claims awards, because a judge might view the plaintiff's fear of losing an advocate as «sufficient reason» to proceed in the only forum where an advocate is permitted.

As in small claims court, they should lead with their best argument because at some point the judge will decide they've heard enough and tell both sides to stop talking.

Typically, if a client sues someone in small claims court, they aren't guaranteed any money, even if they win, because of the need to enforce the judgment.