You can file a claim for which you are seeking $15,000 or less. If your claim exceeds $15,000 principal, the Magistrate Court does not have jurisdiction (the legal authority) to hear your case, and it must be filed in another court; such as, Superior Court.
If you cannot resolve a dispute with a business or a person and the amount in controversy is less than $15,000, you may electronically file a case in Magistrate court. You may electronically file in your own name without an attorney or you may hire an attorney at your own expense.
The plaintiff must file a sworn statement with the clerk of the appropriate magistrate court, describing the charges made by the plaintiff against the defendant. This statement is called a statement of claim, or a claim.
A reply on points of law is meant to be just what it is, a reply on point of law. It should be limited to answering only new points arising from the opposing brief.
If you have ever given a deposition, either as a witness or as a named party, in any type of legal proceeding, sworn to an affidavit, or testified at a trial or hearing, before you signed the document or before you spoke, you were sworn to “tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you God”, or ...
Example witness statement I, Any Tenant, a retired joiner residing at 1 Any Street and the defendant in this matter, will say as follows. This statement is in my own words, from my own knowledge except where indicated. I have made this statement in support of my defence to the possession claim brought by Any Landlord.