Sentences with phrase «small claims proceedings»

Legal Help Centre offers public legal education workshops for people representing themselves in family, estate administration and small claims proceedings.

Having completed her law degree, she went on to gain two years experience as an in - house legal assistant / case handler in debt recovery matters and small claims proceedings.

To start a witch hunt on an entire industry on the back of a small number of fraudsters misses a point — what about the large majority of honest claimants who would be forced to soak up prohibitively costly small claims proceedings, or else represent themselves, without the expertise required to develop a convincing case for the court?

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Claims above the small claims limits must be brought in provincial courts through regular court proceedings, which are invariably expensive, time consuming, and backlClaims above the small claims limits must be brought in provincial courts through regular court proceedings, which are invariably expensive, time consuming, and backlclaims limits must be brought in provincial courts through regular court proceedings, which are invariably expensive, time consuming, and backlogged.

The initially promised affordability of the «unitary patent» and Unified Patent Court (UPC) especially for small and medium - sized enterprises (SMEs), which was repeated almost mantra - like throughout the EU legislative proceedings as one reason why the reform was of utmost importance, ultimately turned out to be pretty much the opposite, with the level of representation costs to be reimbursed by the losing to the winning party amounting to up to more than five times the sum which can currently be claimed in patent litigation proceedings before the German courts (for more details on the cost situation created by the reform, cf. the article «Unitary patent and court system — A poisoned gift for SMEs» here).

Note that the following information does not apply to eviction proceedings or small claims court cases.

The committee administers, evaluates, and markets programs and recruits volunteer lawyers for: several pro se clinics on various legal topics such as family law, small claims and collections, immigration, bankruptcy court proceedings; the annual People's Fair and Veterans» Day Stand Down events; various «call — a — lawyer» programs offered by TV or radio stations, and other such programs or events as needed.

In this weeks judgement the court agreed that despite the fact that the Plaintiff was awarded $ 12,290 in damages (an award well within the small claims court jurisdiction), the Plaintiff did have sufficient reason to bring the proceedings in Supreme Court.

But what they all share in common is a knowledge of and profound interest in the same legal subject area — pharmaceutical class actions, say, or business process patents, or asset securitization, or child custody proceedings in Oregon, or small - claims court cases in Nova Scotia, or wealth management in New South Wales, or any of the law's thousands upon thousands of sub-specialties.

By lightening court procedures and formalities and thus reducing legal expenses and waiting times, small claims divisions aim to make legal proceedings more accessible to citizens who make more modest monetary claims.

The Small Claims Tribunal is similar to the one in Singapore, where parties can not be represented by legal representatives and proceedings are conducted under simplified rules to enable claims to be resolved expeditiClaims Tribunal is similar to the one in Singapore, where parties can not be represented by legal representatives and proceedings are conducted under simplified rules to enable claims to be resolved expediticlaims to be resolved expeditiously.

That aspect of the Québec system of courts has no equivalent in other provinces where all provincial court civil jurisdictions are under Small Claims Court proceedings.

I also understand that judges assigned to the Provincial Court (Civil Division) before September 1, 1990 were able to hear Small Claims Court proceedings, although they have all retired by now.

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.

Any proceedings to enforce the order in Small Claims Court are suspended until the appeal is dealt with, but you first must provide proof that you have started the appeal process.

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

The Court assigns qualified court interpreters in court proceedings at no cost in the following areas: criminal, juvenile delinquency, juvenile dependency, probate, mental health, family law, civil harassment, unlawful detainer (eviction), traffic, small claims, and other civil cases.

The latest quarterly court statistics (July to September 2011) reveal that, on average, care proceedings took 55 weeks to conclude, small - claims hearings took place 30 weeks after the claim was made, and higher - value hearings took place 57 weeks after a claim was made.

Small claims and landlord - tenant cases are considered «special proceedings» under the District Court Rules.

These amendments change the rules relating to small claims court practices and family proceedings practices, and rules relating to how pleadings are struck out.

Our group has represented large accounting firms, smaller firms and individual accountants in securities litigation, malpractice claims, other sorts of litigation and administrative proceedings.

As a claimant you can pursue settlement options before starting court proceedings or even after you have started a small claims case.

Additionally, I regularly represent clients in Small Claims Court disputes and residential Landlord and Tenant matters, including proceedings at the Landlord and Tenant Board.

The claimant took proceedings to recover a debt in an amount which would normally mean that the case would be allocated to the small claims track.

By the 1999 Order there is authority for any person to exercise rights of audience in any proceedings dealt with as a small claim so long as the represented litigant attends.

Proceedings relating to extradition, sentencing, probation, or parole; issuance of criminal summonses, or of warrants for arrest or search, preliminary juvenile matters, direct contempt, bail hearings, small claims, and grand jury proceedings.

My answer is always no, but starting or defending legal proceedings in Small Claims Court can take up a lot of time.

The court examined the small number of Canadian cases where courts accepted the possibility of claims of malicious prosecution against professional regulatory bodies, as well as the English case of Gregory v. Portsmouth City Council, [2000] UKHL 3, [2000] 1 AC 419, where Lord Steyn concluded that the claim does not extend to disciplinary proceedings.

Clerked and maintained small claims court proceedings, schedule, and records; educated the public on the small claims process and assisted with paperwork.