LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO PETTY CIVIL COURTS ACT CHAPTER 4:21 Cases triable by Magistrates. 16. Where an action is brought in respect of the recovery of any money by way of wages, or for damages for any alleged assault, or for the detention or conversion of goods, or for trespass to enclosed lands, or in respect of any other claim or cause of action, and in the opinion of the Judge the same could have been adequately dealt with by a Magistrate under the Summary Courts Act, or any other Act conferring on a Magistrate the power to award payment or damages or compensation to the plaintiff in respect of any debt or claim whatsoever, the Judge shall, unless for good cause it appears to him otherwise just, strike out such action at the hearing, and such striking out shall be without prejudice to any right of the plaintiff to proceed before a Magistrate, if he is entitled to do so. It shall not be deemed good cause for allowing such action to continue, that the time had expired for commencing proceedings in the Court of summary jurisdiction at the commencement of the action.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:37:28 +0000
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