{"id":8483,"date":"2022-05-02T21:25:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T01:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/360mediations.com\/en\/?p=8483"},"modified":"2022-05-02T21:25:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T01:25:20","slug":"taking-away-plaintiffs-choice-of-court-location-isnt-always-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/360mediations.com\/en\/taking-away-plaintiffs-choice-of-court-location-isnt-always-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking away Plaintiff\u2019s Choice of Court Location isn\u2019t Always Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this recent case, the defendant brought a motion to change the court location from Kitchener to London, which in this instance seemed to be on fairly good grounds: all the parties lived in London, the car accident occurred in London, and most of the witnesses would reside in London.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, despite all these connections to London, the court rejected the motion, and kept the trial in Kitchener.\u00a0 The Plaintiff was a law student in London at the time of the accident and wanted his claim held in Kitchener to keep the lawsuit away from any prospective law firm employers in London.\u00a0 In addition, the Kitchener courthouse was a more modern facility with greater courtroom capacity to hear cases quicker.\u00a0 This was sufficient to have the case remain in Kitchener, where the Plaintiff\u2019s lawyer was located.<\/p>\n<p>The proximity of the two cities likely played a significant role in the outcome, as I would suspect that if the plaintiff selected a city far removed from London (ie: Ottawa), the scales would likely have leaned in favour of moving the case to London.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Weinberger v. Gray<\/em><\/strong>, 2022 ONSC 2526<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onsc\/doc\/2022\/2022onsc2526\/2022onsc2526.html\">https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onsc\/doc\/2022\/2022onsc2526\/2022onsc2526.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this recent case, the defendant brought a motion to change the court location from Kitchener to London, which in this instance seemed to be on fairly good grounds: all the parties lived in London, the car accident occurred in London, and most of the witnesses would reside in London.\u00a0 However, despite all these connections&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/360mediations.com\/en\/taking-away-plaintiffs-choice-of-court-location-isnt-always-easy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taking away Plaintiff\u2019s Choice of Court Location isn\u2019t Always Easy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53,160,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-court-practice","category-motor-vehicle-litigation","category-personal-injury","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Taking away Plaintiff\u2019s Choice of Court Location isn\u2019t Always Easy - 360Mediations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Even if there are a lot of connections to a certain city, if the plaintiff had good reason to start claim in another city, a court may uphold that decision in the right circumstances.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/taking-away-plaintiffs-choice-of-court-location-isnt-always-easy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Taking away Plaintiff\u2019s Choice of Court Location isn\u2019t Always Easy - 360Mediations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Even if there are a lot of connections to a certain city, if the plaintiff had good reason to start claim in another city, a court may uphold that decision in the right circumstances.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/taking-away-plaintiffs-choice-of-court-location-isnt-always-easy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"360Mediations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/360Mediations-120028596572318\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/360Mediations-120028596572318\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-03T01:25:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-05-03T01:25:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/360mediations.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/COURT-DECISIONS-360MEDIATIONS-1x1-1.png?fit=406%2C322&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"406\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"322\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"David M. 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