Courts
Ignoring a claim is how people lose cases they could have won
Civil procedure treats silence as a decision, and a judgment entered because nobody responded is far harder…
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Courts
What a claim involves, how long it takes, and what it costs to bring.
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Which country decides the dispute is a question of its own
Cross-border arrangements raise two separate issues before anyone reaches the merits: which courts may hear…
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Suing the wrong entity is a mistake that can cost the whole claim
The name above a shop, on a van or on an invoice is frequently not the legal person responsible, and…
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A witness is giving memory, and memory is treated as evidence with known weaknesses
Testimony is produced through a formal process designed around the fact that honest people misremember…
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Common law and civil law disagree about who has to hand over documents
Whether a party must produce material that harms its own case is one of the sharpest divisions between…
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When many people have the same complaint, systems handle it in very different ways
Collective procedures exist to make small individual claims viable together, and whether a person is…
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What a claim is worth is a separate question from whether it succeeds
Establishing that something went wrong is only half of a civil claim; the other half is proving loss, and…
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Most civil hearings are public, and that is part of the cost of bringing one
Open justice is a structural principle rather than an oversight, which means a private dispute taken to…
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