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What Types of Small Claims Court Cases Does [Legal Firm's Name] Handle?
[Legal Firm's Name] Assists With a Wide Variety of Small Claims Court Cases That Involve Claims For Compensation or the Return of Property.
Understanding the Types of Cases That May Be Litigated Within the Small Claims Court by [Legal Firm's Name]
The various types of law are extensive and certainly too much for anybody to ever fully know. Even judges with decades of experience will lack full knowledge of all types of law; and accordingly, judges usually assigned to specific types of cases where the type of law involved is familiar. Even so, judges will routinely expect representatives for the parties to perform precedent research and then provide submissions and present argument based upon the findings of that research.
“... I include myself among those who had never heard of the tort of barratry ...”
~ C.A. Osborne A.C.J.O.
McIntyre Estate v. Ontario, 2001 CanLII 7972 (ON CA)
Accordingly, there will be certain judges who will hear civil law cases and there will be other judges who hear family law cases and then other judges who hear criminal cases, etc. In a similar fashion, lawyers and paralegals will develop specific areas of law as the types of Small Claims Court cases that are focused upon. Of course, it is true that every case has a unique factual situation; however, the law and justice system, developed over hundreds of years and there will now be few cases where the legal issues are a first; and accordingly, relevant law containing the fundamentals and principles for most circumstances will exist.