Sentences with phrase «smaller court systems»

This applies in academic libraries, small law firms, barristers» chambers, smaller court systems, etc..

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The Supreme Court initially ruled on this 20 years ago — it was specifically [meant] to unclog the court system that had become way too overloaded with small - business dispCourt initially ruled on this 20 years ago — it was specifically [meant] to unclog the court system that had become way too overloaded with small - business dispcourt system that had become way too overloaded with small - business disputes.

All provinces except New Brunswick have a Small Claims Court within their provincial court system to deal with smaller claims in a quick, less expensiveCourt within their provincial court system to deal with smaller claims in a quick, less expensivecourt system to deal with smaller claims in a quick, less expensive way.

Second, and more important, these trials exhibit in exaggerated form what is also happening on a smaller scale throughout the criminal justice system: «Though no avalanche has occurred,» Wilson observes, «the courts are having difficulty keeping their footing on a slope that has become increasingly slippery.»

Mr Jones can sell his shares currently at a small profit, so why is he bothering to take action through Maurice Blackburn and Bentham IMF, who are determined to use the court system and engage Treasury Wines in the proceedings.

While criticism of China's human rights record and courts tends to be very general, these cases show that the small details of China's legal system showcase the biggest injustices.

For eight years, a case has wandered through New York's court system: impoverished small cities suing Albany, saying the state's system for allocating school aid is not fair to them.

Germany's main parties have been repeatedly challenged in the country's constitutional court over the years because they created a set of rules that benefited themselves at the expense of smaller rivals new to the system.

The system is far to touchy and the difference between a beautiful cross court shot that glides off the baseline to a dinky short shot is extremely small.

However, we are a small school district with limited financial resources and can not afford to spend the amount of economic funds to defend the Philosophy of Design class in the court system.»

In Bush v. Holmes (2006), the state supreme court struck down Florida's Opportunity Scholarship Program, a small voucher program serving fewer than 800 students, on the grounds that it fell afoul of the state constitution's «uniformity» clause, which allegedly prevents the state from funding any program outside of or «parallel» to the public school system.

You can take your complaint to a local county court in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, or a sheriff court in Scotland.To use the courts» small claims system, your claim needs to be under # 10,000 in England and Wales, or under # 5,000 in Scotland or # 3,000 in Northern Ireland.

There is no guarantee of success, lose and you could lose court fees of # 100s, and in extreme examples, if your case wasn't dealt with by the small claims system, risk having to pay the banks costs.

Externalities may be addressed by either a tax / credit or some other public policy, public ownership and management of the commons, or privatization of the commons, or through court actions — each option may have it's own costs — for example, the large - scale privatization of the climate system may be impractical with given technology (analogy with toll roads), and even without that, it has at least an aesthetic cost (nature is supposed to be nature; and psychologically, humans may benifit from some amount of public space) and perhaps scientific (ie nature — in this context, nature as it is with relatively small impacts of humankind — is not nature if it is not being itself) costs; there may be inefficiencies in the court system that could be bypassed for issues that are easily addressed with legislation (unless we had a class - action lawsuit on behalf of all people now until the year).

Currently, those citizens who represent the principal inspiration for the OC (LiPs and small businesses) do not necessarily possess the knowledge of court procedure, the awareness of ADR processes available to them, or the cognisance of substantive and procedural law required to make the system effective.

By the 1830s, Upper Canada had a fully - functioning judicial system including superior, county and district courts, a court of equity (called the Court of Chancery), and a small claims court (called Division Cocourt of equity (called the Court of Chancery), and a small claims court (called Division CoCourt of Chancery), and a small claims court (called Division Cocourt (called Division CourtCourt).

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» hCourt (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» hcourt system — A poisoned gift for SMEs» here).

Here you can find the various small claims forms provided by the Alaska Court System.

Legacy, paper - based systems will need to run alongside developments like online small claims courts even if they impede the imminent sale of physical assets.

Prior to joining HKM, she worked at a small Seattle law firm, providing representation to federal employees in discrimination cases before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and U.S. District Court, and disciplinary actions before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB).

«The intention has always been to expand it [the e-filing system],» adding that «filing online is really an advanced feature and it's overdue, it should be expanded beyond small claims to all courts,» says Toronto commercial and franchise litigator Ben Hanuka, of Law Works PC.

Anybody's who's going to file in small claims courts or I assume there's other types of things that they can do, but if the video or photo novellas weren't enough that can actually be educated on the more nuts and bolts of how the system works.

All too often, insurance companies have been selling minimum policies and then abusing the system to under - pay claims due to the difficulty and expense of litigating a small case in District Court that might be worth more than $ 10,000.00, but not more than $ 15,000.00.

Perhaps it might replace lawyers to a very small degree should there be be a way that the court system implements technology to make it accessible to the public.

One of the issues for those developing ODR systems for small claims, as recognised both in the Ministry of Justice Transforming our Justice System and the earlier Briggs report, is the level of assistance to be given to users before they pay their money and enter the court sSystem and the earlier Briggs report, is the level of assistance to be given to users before they pay their money and enter the court systemsystem.

The creation of small claims courts unclogs the court system by moving small cases through quickly, and it gives citizens a means to recover losses in a quick and inexpensive manner.

Would you expect to see the same kind of system used for e-filing in higher courts as well, or for greater sums of money than the jurisdiction of the Small Claims Court ($ 25,000)?

The Ministry of the Attorney General has announced an electronic filing system for the Ontario Small Claims Court.

The Cook County judicial system includes judges that sit on the Illinois Supreme Court, the Illinois Appellate Court, and trial courts that are divided into countywide and smaller «subcircuit» districts.

«Human rights lawyer Amer Mushtaq is trying to streamline access to justice for self - representing litigants going through the Ontario small claims court system with an online course he has developed.

You or someone you know may be one of those 70 % people fighting on their own: frustrated by Small Claims Court system and struggling to access justice you deserve without the help of a legal professional.

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 proceedcourt civil jurisdictions are under Small Claims Court proceedCourt proceedings.

Police Certificate, Probate Office, Commissioners for Oaths, Courts system, Small claims procedure, Legal aid and advice, Public order offences...

The Divisional Court reinforces the importance of paralegals in making the «justice system more accessible» and describes arbitration in relation to the Small Claims Court as «another parallel process also designed to provide increased access to justice».

Amer has recently launched an online course to help self - represented litigants make their way through the small claims court system.

In addition to the online system, the Ministry says the monetary jurisdiction of the provincial court's small claims division will increase from $ 25,000 to $ 35,000.

«The small claims system is not a lot faster than the supreme court system, so it can be a matter of many months,» explains Robert Gill, a lawyer at Clay & Company in Victoria.

Jean was exposed to every conceivable type of litigation, in every court system, from small claims court to the Supreme Court of Canada, and was even encouraged to take legal aid criminal ccourt system, from small claims court to the Supreme Court of Canada, and was even encouraged to take legal aid criminal ccourt to the Supreme Court of Canada, and was even encouraged to take legal aid criminal cCourt of Canada, and was even encouraged to take legal aid criminal cases.

Some of my cases going to a judgment in the last few years were: Click to open judgment in fresh window (Scottish Courts site) Insurance implications of playing «Happy Birthday» on the piano Damages for psychiatric illness caused by bereavement Judicial approval of the Hohfeldian analysis of rights Leading case on fair rent assessment Title raiders and retrospective rectification Leading case on competency of hearsay evidence Detention ordered by children's hearing: Articles 5 and 6 of ECHR No damage suffered by making a smaller profit than expected «In a well - regulated legal universe black holes should not exist» How much is half a home worth, with or without a mortgage «Reasonably obtained» held not to include unethically obtained Leading case on children's hearing system and ECHR Attempt to judicially review SNP; petitioners held not to exist Unlawful for council to charge for property enquiries Fair sharing (100 % to nil) of matrimonial property

The provincial government expanded an e-filing pilot in the spring for the Small Claims Court, but critics have said this was a mere baby step in the provincial court's overly cautious move away from the paper - based syCourt, but critics have said this was a mere baby step in the provincial court's overly cautious move away from the paper - based sycourt's overly cautious move away from the paper - based system.

The purpose of Small Claims Court is to take disputes involving relatively small amounts of money out of the more formal judicial system, in the hope that the claims can be resolved more quickly and at less expense than in a full - scale court Small Claims Court is to take disputes involving relatively small amounts of money out of the more formal judicial system, in the hope that the claims can be resolved more quickly and at less expense than in a full - scale court Court is to take disputes involving relatively small amounts of money out of the more formal judicial system, in the hope that the claims can be resolved more quickly and at less expense than in a full - scale court small amounts of money out of the more formal judicial system, in the hope that the claims can be resolved more quickly and at less expense than in a full - scale court court case.

Ontario's Ministry of the Attorney General abandoned a $ 10.3 million overhaul of its court record system in 2013, but last August, the province began allowing residents to file electronically at a handful of small claims courts in Brampton, Oshawa, Ottawa and Richmond Hill.

We live in an overly litigious culture when people turns to the courts and the justice system to solve the smallest and pettiest of their problems.

For a small fee, a party could get a «high confidence» level prediction of the outcome of their case in the court system.

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.

Do we want a system that permits people to resolve differences — large or small — in court?

The system resolves around 60 million disputes by traders each year - far more than any small claims court.

Indeed, while district courts invalidated more than double the number of patents under § 101 in the second half of 2014 than in the entire previous year, those decisions represent a very small number of cases relative to the volume of litigation in the system.

«But, we question the creation of a separate tribunal working in parallel to the court system,» says Crawford, who suggests the funds used to create the tribunal could have bolstered the provincial court system that already has a number of mediation and dispute - solution mechanisms in place in addition to a small claims process.

Anton has certainly shown crucial leadership on this front by pushing for immediate roadside prohibitions, which move drinking and driving matters from the courts to an administrative process, and launching the civil resolution tribunal, an innovative online dispute resolution tribunal for small claims disputes tied into the public justice system.