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The Small Claims Court of the Manitoba Court of King's Bench adjudicates claims up to $15,000. [17] New Brunswick: $20,000 The New Brunswick Small Claims Court hears claims up to a limit of $20,000. The limit was raised to its current amount on 1 April 2018, and was previously raised from $6,000 to $12,500 in 2013. [18] Newfoundland and Labrador
The District Court also tries small claims anticipated to involve up to $7,000 [1] (initially tried to a magistrate, with a defense right of appeal either to a judge or to a jury). Fifteen of its judges serve on the Appellate Division, an appellate tribunal with published opinions that is organized in three geographical districts, and sits in ...
The court was established by the state legislature in 1971 as the Boston Housing Court and started its operation in August 1972. [2] It handles summary proceedings for possession of land, also known as summary process. The court is one division of the Massachusetts Housing Court. [3] The Eastern Division has sessions in Boston, Chelsea, and ...
In October 2010, Irene Williams, the owner of a marketing firm in Nashville, Tennessee, walked into small claims court and won a judgment in full against a defendant who failed to pay for her ...
Before 1978, all trial courts except the Land Court were county or local courts funded through the counties. The Massachusetts Trial Court was created by Chapter 478 of the Acts of 1978 that reorganized the courts into seven Trial Court Departments.
The legal system is based on common law, which is interpreted by case law through the decisions of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the Massachusetts Appeals Court, and the Appellate Divisions of the Massachusetts District Court and the Boston Municipal Court departments, which are published in the Massachusetts Reports, Massachusetts ...
Pennington was an assistant district attorney in Chatham County from 2004 until 2018, when he was hired as an assistant U.S. attorney. He served a stint as Deputy Chief ADA and had positions on ...
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