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Snowball, that's interesting that there was a similar case on the Judge Rinder Programme, and that it was thrown out of court. Though what I was told about the Judge Rinder Programme is that the production company actually pays whoever loses. If that is correct, then the woman who was hosting the party would still get the money she was suing the neighbour for. If it had been thrown out in a real court, she would have got nothing!
It seems that with Judge Rinder, there are no losers! However for my case, I think I would like to try and come to an agreement just between the tow of us rather than have it all broadcast on TV, interesting thought though!