Simplified procedure numbers, how out of date is my chart
Chart I am using says 35k to 200k. Someone told me the bottom number moved. Also is it optional or not, I have seen it written both ways.
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Not optional. Mandatory where the claim falls inside the band, which is the bit most people get wrong.
What changes once you are in it. Oral discovery capped at three hours per party in total, however many people you want to examine, and the parties cannot consent to more. Trials capped at five days and run as summary trials, so no examination in chief. No jury. Costs recovery capped at fifty thousand, disbursements at twenty five, excluding HST.
mandatory is the one I had wrong, I thought the plaintiff elected
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Your chart is out of date. Small Claims went from 35k to 50k on 1 October 2025, so the band is 50,001 to 200,000 now. Anything written before last October says 35.
oh that is annoying. where did you get that from?
Regulation change, O.Reg 42/25. Check your own materials rather than my memory but the date is right.
Learn the costs consequence for claiming over the ceiling and recovering under it. 76.13. Favourite of question writers because it punishes a decision made on day one.
the no jury thing has caught me twice. pattern mentions someone wanting a jury and the whole question turns on it
rewriting that page tonight. thanks both
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