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1 January 2009 – European Small Claims Procedure comes into effect

Thursday 1 January 2009 at 10:03 am | In News | Post Comment From 1 January 2009, the High Court and County Courts Jurisdiction (Amendment) Order 2008 amends SI 1991/724 gives the county court jurisdiction to create a European small claims procedure.

The procedure will provide citizens and businesses all over Europe with a speedy and affordable civil procedure which is uniform in all Member States, it will apply in civil and commercial matters where the value of a claim does not exceed EUR 2000.