Joseph Vanderslice v. Harold Stewart and Camden County (073362)

In this ease, we are asked to consider three issues: first, the impact of a court clerk’s failure to notify a party that the form of payment filed with a notice rejecting an arbitration award and demanding a trial de novo (demand) was nonconforming pursuant to Rule l:5-6(c)(l)(A); second, whether “extraordinary circumstances” is the appropriate standard for expanding the thirty-day time limit to file a demand; and third, if so, whether the failure of the clerk to notify a filing party pursuant to Rule l:5-6(e)(l)(A) satisfies that standard.

Because we hold that defendants’ demand was not filed…