Barry Fisher | Canada | 13 Jan 2023
In Chin v. Beauty Express Canada Inc., 2023 ONSC 56, Justice Morgan had awarded the plaintiff $16,000 which represented 7.5 months notice. When it…
Barry Fisher | Canada | 9 Jun 2022
In Patel v Crimp Circuit ( not on CanLII) Ontario Small Claims Court Judge BOCCI initially awarded 14 months notice to a 54 year old Quality…
Clyde & Co LLP | United Arab Emirates | 29 Jun 2021
Last week H.H Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan issued Judicial Department Chairman's Decision No. 20 of 2020, which approved the establishment of a…
Gowling WLG | Canada | 30 Jan 2020
Rule 76 of the Rules of Civil Procedure was instituted to streamline cases of smaller monetary value. The Rule as enacted in 2010, made Simplified…
SpringLaw | Canada | 29 Jan 2020
On January 1, 2020, changes were implemented to the Simplified Procedure under Rule 76 of the Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure, as well as in Small…
Koskie Minsky LLP | Canada | 20 Nov 2019
On October 23rd, 2019, the Ontario government announced new changes that will be made to Rule 76 (Simplified Procedure) under the Rules of Civil…
Miller Thomson LLP | Canada | 15 Nov 2019
The government of Ontario recently announced that, as of January 1, 2020, the maximum amount a plaintiff can seek in the Ontario Small Claims Court…
Gowling WLG | Canada | 24 Oct 2019
Effective January 1, 2020, the Government of Ontario has raised the monetary threshold for Small Claims Court from $25,000 to $35,000. This means that…
DAC Beachcroft | United Kingdom | 24 May 2019
2013 saw the vertical and horizontal extension of the Pre-Action Protocols for Low Value Personal Injury Claims, extending the range of claims…
Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC | USA | 3 May 2019
Copyright small-claims court may soon be a reality. This week, corresponding bills were introduced in the House and Senate, both with bipartisan…