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Record W2606278834 · doi:10.22329/wyaj.v33i2.4856

BUSINESS DOMINANCE IN THE “PEOPLE’S COURT”: AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT OF BUSINESS ACTIVITY IN THE TORONTO SMALL CLAIMS COURT

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Shelley McGill

Bibliographic record

VenueWindsor Yearbook of Access to Justice · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicLaw, Economics, and Judicial Systems
Canadian institutionsWilfrid Laurier University
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
KeywordsPlaintiffDominance (genetics)HumanitiesPolitical scienceManagementLawEconomicsArt

Abstract

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This article examines business dominance in small claims courts from four perspectives: party entity, party relationship, claim subject matter, and business plaintiff success. Using data collected from the Toronto Small Claims Court, it compares business activity before and after the monetary limit rose from CDN $10,000 to CDN $25,000. Although most claims are brought by business plaintiffs against individual defendants, business dominance did not worsen following the limit increase. In some ways, it actually receded. Individual defence rates rose, and business plaintiff success fell. In sum, capping monetary limits is not recommended to reduce business activity in small claims courts. Dans cet article, l’auteure étudie la dominance des entreprises devant les cours de petites créances sous quatre angles : celui de la personne morale, celui des rapports des parties entre elles, celui de l’objet revendiqué et celui du succès de l’entreprise demanderesse. En se servant de données provenant de la cour des petites créances de Toronto, l’auteure compare les proportions d’instances introduites par les entreprises avant et après le passage de 10 000 $ à 25 000 $ CDN de la limite pécuniaire des réclamations. Bien que la plupart des instances soient introduites par des entreprises demanderesses contre des particuliers défendeurs, la dominance des entreprises ne s’est pas accentuée après le relèvement de la limite pécuniaire des réclamations. À certains égards, cette dominance a en fait reculé. Les moyens de défense des particuliers se sont accrus et le taux de succès des entreprises demanderesses a baissé. En conséquence, il n’est pas recommandé de plafonner la limite pécuniaire des réclamations pour réduire la place que prennent les entreprises devant les cours de petites créances.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.018
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.338
Threshold uncertainty score0.679

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.018
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0040.005
Science and technology studies0.0080.006
Scholarly communication0.0050.003
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.083
GPT teacher head0.329
Teacher spread0.246 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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