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If the issues aren’t fully resolved at the settlement conference or mediation, the matter will be set for trial.
Pursuant to the Provincial Small Claims Court Pilot, the procedure is different for small claims up to $5,000 (other than personal injury claims) filed in the Vancouver Robson Square and Richmond registries. These claims go straight to a simplified one-hour trial before an experienced lawyer who is a justice of the peace (also called an “adjudicator”). There is no pre-trial settlement conference or mediation and all financial debt claims in these two registries, where the claimant is in the business of lending money, go straight to a half-hour trial.
==What should you do if the defendant makes a Counterclaim against you?==