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Thank you :)

Thanks Heather! These videos are super helpful

Hello Everyone! This video only applies to Ontario Canada. You should do a Google search to locate the information on case conferences specific to your province.

Thanks, is it same in BC, Canada as well?

great info

You interrupt too much and cut off the educational part. Uh huh mmh huh 😳

Does this apply to BC

Does this apply to BC

Thank G*d for AI!

At the time of making this video the courts were undergoing a change in the way trial was heard because of the restrictions imposed by COVID. For a very short time, there were no cases being heard at all, foreseeing the problems that the mounting backlog was going to create, the courts came up with the practice of trial by Zoom. Documents began to be filed via email in pdf format. The emphasis began to fall by the wayside. There was a time, when all documents were on 8.5x14 inch sheet known as legal format. That disappeared a long time ago.All of the legal documents served on my by LAWYERS dont meet the criteria laid out by the rules. I agree that decorum is important, and documents should not be reduced to hand scribbled notes by any means, but certain things are becoming problematic in the age of electronically transmitted documents. A blue backsheet may not scan so readily as a white sheet, and depending on the equipment that you are using, it may not scan at all, or replicate the same colour. Is a scanner really going to accurately duplicate beige? No. The basis for this lawyers argument is understandable, but out of pace with technology. Further, it has been my experience that lawyers, generally speaking, play it far too safe.Because they have their carreers to think about, they dare not go out on a limb, even when that limb is very safe. They tend not to argue things of which they have no understanding about even when their client is a proven expert on the subject. Ive had my fair share of experience with lawyers, and I have to say that I wouldnt want to do what they do, I would not pursuing a malicious prosecution acation as a self representing litigant if the attorney that I had for criminal defense hadve gone out on that limb and presented evidence in his possession, simply because he didnt understand it. I couldve explained to him and the court

What solutions would you pit forth for Pro Se? You made a lot of comments of what is wrong, what is the solution?

An absolute life saver becasue the document doesn't make sense when you try to fill it out🤟🏾

What is that last mandatory field that you didn't fill in..i can't get past it. What should be entered there?

too fast- need to spell out each step!

I have requested for Default Judgement online since the defendant didn’t serve there defence in 20 days. While filing for 11B online, no where it mentioned that I need to upload the form in PDF form. I have paid the fee and current status is submitted. What should I do? Can I email them my form ?

is the order filed separately? what is the proper way to assemble the order?

This is great information

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Excellent presentation. Very helpful to a lay person unaware of legalese. Most informative format that I have discovered to date. Thank you.

helpful !

Very helpful

You voice volume is way to low, I can't hear you at all.

Thank you

Thanks again

This must be for Canada

I was under the impression that all documents need to be served at least 14 days prior to the settlement conference, as stated on the small claims court website, not 4...?

To all the self represented litigants watching this, your chances of success in small claims court often rest with how ethical your Deputy Judge is in doing his or her job fairly, without bias towards you as a self rep. There are some Deputy Judges who loathe self represented litigants, who write articles on lawyer websites about self represented litigants clogging up valuable court resources with their abundant filinings and make little effort to hide their contempt for self represented litigants. You have no chance with these Deputy Judges no matter how well you argue your case. These Deputy Judges will order undocumented hearings in order to act inappropriately and try to dissuade you from further defending your case. And appeals and Judicial reviews are very expensive. Be aware that no matter how well you think you might be able to represent yourself, there will be those unethical, power hungry individuals sitting on the bench who will decide before ever hearing your case that you will lose because you are self represented.

May I give you my own personal experience? I took a Deputy Judge's decision to Divisional Court, it was set aside, and he was ordered to reconsider, hecame back with the SAME decision and flatly disobeyed stare decisis of a previous Divisional Court ruling that flatly stated a Deputy Judge could not order costs for a settlement conference they did not preside over. My only recourse was to take that decision to Divisional Court twice for the same insufficient ruling. That Deputy Judge was on the bench for over a decade and recently retired. The number one reason so few small claims court judgements are appealed is the cost to take it to Divisional Court. And Deputy Judges know that litigants are unlikely to appeal a decision due to the cost of an appeal.

DJ Crieger sounds like an upstanding Deputy Judge, but I can tell you from personal experience, some of these Deputy Judges absolutely loathe self represented litigants and will go outside the law to order high cost awards against them and try to prevent them from defending a case if they are a self represented litigant. I had a Deputy Judge order my motion to take place over opposing Counsel's cell phone instead of the Court teleconference line. He also ordered me to pay $1500 for leave to bring a defendants claim in which he ordered me to pay costs for a settlement conference that he did not preside over, he then told me I would lose my case ( I won by the way). This Deputy Judge was already set aside by Divisional Court before in which the Divisional Court stated that a Deputy Judge could not order costs for settlement conferences that they did not preside over - but the same Deputy Judge did it to me anyway just 4 years later. If you are self represented, be aware there are Deputy Judges who will disobey stare decisis and improperly order high costs awards against you in order to dusuade you from defending yourself.

Excellent video!

Thank you for this helpful information.

What’s the URL to find them?

Informative.

Divorced couples can live together, correct?

Hi mam how is career for Indian lawyer how to practice there can u explain please

She lost me at Canada :v

Thank you

thanks for this great info. But what does " candy" means?!

I'm glad you did this. There is a veritable dearth of resources for this exact issue and every Judge acts like we all got trained on this somehow. I'm sure every member of the Court was trained but the profession - we got a "go figure it out" message from the Courts and the LSO. The brochures do not explain this adequately.

Pro se civil defendants are as good as buried if the evidence against them is massive and a motion to compel is filed against them.

Thank you very much! This video was very informative! ❤

FYI CANADIAN LAW video

Thank you both for sharing your knowledge. I am a journalist. I wonder how I can search a case documents filed with court by all parties.

Great information ❤

Great explanation ❤

Just what I think I needed. Thanks. I just created a my Ontario id. Wish they made this easier to find online for def represented apeallants

This is so frustrating no one can follow this woman who just talks fast provides no close visual references that anyone can see clearly or print out. So sad l'm a self representing Appelant and your video the fast surface references cause more anxiety already experiencing

I wish Heather could stay silent while Helena was explaining! She doesn't need your confirmation.

this is one of the most informative session I ever listen to

Thank you so much. You are teaching with such an easy to understand way and with a very nice and calm teaching voice. Your videos helped my legal search a lot 👌🙏