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Demand letters · Scarborough
Demand Letter Lawyer in Scarborough
We write demand letters for Scarborough people and businesses who are owed money, from our office at 1585 Markham Road. If the letter does not work, the claim goes to the Toronto courts, and we take it there.
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Caleesis TeleshFounder & Principal Lawyer
Shaneisha MattisForeign Trained Lawyer
Diego HerreraInternationally Trained Lawyer
Daniel OseiStudent Legal Assistant
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Paid 30-minute consultationRates set out in writing before work beginsCounsel in eight languagesSaturday by appointmentReplies within one business day
More about the firm
- Hours
- Telesh Law Firm Professional Corporation is open Monday – Friday 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM. Saturday by appointment. Sunday closed. Consultations are booked in advance; walk-ins are not seen without an appointment.
- Offices
- Telesh Law Firm has two offices: the Scarborough office at 1585 Markham Road, Scarborough, ON M1B 2W1, and the Mississauga office at 2960 Drew Road, Unit 139, Mississauga, ON L4T 0A5. Call 416-639-0887 or 416-299-8088, or email tlf@teleshlawfirm.ca.
- Consultation and rates
- Telesh Law Firm offers a paid 30-minute consultation: a full review of your matter with a lawyer, so you leave knowing where you stand and what your options are. Rates for the work that follows are set out in plain language before any work begins.
- Response time
- A member of the team responds to consultation requests within one business day. For an urgent demand letters matter, call rather than write.
- Languages
- Counsel is available in eight languages: English, Hindi, Urdu, Farsi (Persian), Punjabi, Spanish, and Tamil.
- Courts
- Telesh Law Firm appears in the Ontario Court of Justice, the Superior Court of Justice, and Small Claims Court in Toronto and across the Greater Toronto Area.
- Licensing
- Telesh Law Firm Professional Corporation is a member of the Law Society of Ontario. Caleesis Telesh, Founder & Principal Lawyer, is an Ontario licensed lawyer. The firm is also a member of the Canadian Bar Association, Criminal Lawyers' Association, Canadian Immigration Lawyers Association, and Durham Region Law Association.
- Clients from
- Demand Letters clients come to Telesh Law Firm from Scarborough and across the Greater Toronto Area, including Scarborough, Mississauga, Toronto, Brampton, Milton, Newmarket, Oshawa, Barrie, Guelph, Hamilton, and Bracebridge.
- Facts reviewed
- October 2026. Fees, hours, and availability change; call to confirm before relying on them.
The deadline that matters
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The two-year clock keeps running after you send it.
You generally have two years from the day you discovered the claim to start a court proceeding. A demand letter is not a proceeding. Sending one, waiting for an answer, or negotiating for months does not pause the clock.
On a debt for a fixed amount, the clock can restart if the person who owes you acknowledges the debt in a signed document, or pays part of it. Do not plan around that. If the two-year date is close, we start the claim at the same time as the letter, or instead of it.
Separately, no claim can be started more than 15 years after the events it is about, whatever you knew and when.
Source: Limitations Act, 2002, S.O. 2002, c. 24, Sched. B, ss. 4, 5, 13 and 15.
In Scarborough
Demand Letters in Scarborough.
Scarborough has no civil courthouse of its own. For court purposes it is part of Toronto, so a demand letter from Scarborough names the Toronto court the claim will go to next: the Toronto Small Claims Court at 47 Sheppard Avenue East for $50,000 or less, or the Superior Court of Justice on University Avenue above that. Naming the real court office, and the real form, is part of what makes the letter credible. Much of what we see from the east end is small-business work: a renovation deposit kept along Kingston Road, a restaurant supplier waiting on a stack of invoices, a loan between relatives that was never written down. For those, the e-transfer history and the text messages are often the whole case, and the letter is built from them.
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What we do
From your documents to a demand letter that is ready.
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Draft
We set out the facts, the amount, the documents it rests on, and a firm date to pay or respond.
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Send
We send it by email and by a method that proves delivery, so nobody can later say it never arrived.
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Follow up
If they answer, we negotiate and put any deal in writing. If they don't, we prepare the claim.
What to bring
Bring these to the consultation.
Gather what you have. A missing document is no reason to wait, least of all with a deadline running.
- 01The agreement, quote or written terms. An email or text that sets out the deal counts
- 02Invoices, receipts, e-transfer records and bank statements showing what was paid and what is owing
- 03Messages with the other side, especially any where they admit the debt or promise to pay
- 04Their full legal name and address. For a business, the name on its invoices or registration
- 05A short timeline: when the deal was made, when payment was due, and every contact since
- 06Any letter you have already sent, and any reply
Last reviewed: October 2026This page provides general legal information, not advice for a specific matter. Legal rights and deadlines depend on the facts.
What we do
Letters we write in Scarborough
Renovation depositsWork paid for and never started or finished
Unpaid invoicesTrades, suppliers and service businesses
Informal loansMoney lent by e-transfer between family or friends
Answering a demandA reply when the letter is addressed to you
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Common questions
Answers, in plain language.
If the amount is $50,000 or less, the Toronto Small Claims Court at 47 Sheppard Avenue East. Above that, the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto. Small Claims rules let you sue where the events happened or where the other side lives or does business, so if they are outside Toronto, the letter names that court instead.
Often, yes. The transfer records, any message asking for the money, and any reply where they admit it or promise to repay can prove the loan. We collect those first and build the letter around them.
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