THE EVOLUTION OF SMALL CLAIMS COURT: RISING MONETARY LIMITS AND USE OF LEGAL REPRESENTATION

Do higher small claims court monetary limits expand access to “simplified” justice or do they erode the character of the “People’s Court”? This paper reports the initial findings of a study of claims filed in the Toronto Small Claims Court in the two years before and after Ontario raised the Court’s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shelley McGill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Windsor 2015-02-01
Series:The Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice
Online Access:https://wyaj.uwindsor.ca/index.php/wyaj/article/view/4520