{"id":1986,"date":"2011-05-30T07:08:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T06:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2021-09-10T14:30:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T14:30:53","slug":"small-claims-limit-may-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1986","title":{"rendered":"Small claims limit may rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-full wp-image-1987\" style=\"width:80px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/old-bailey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/old-bailey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Small claims to get bigger<\/div>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\nMinisters are consulting on increasing the value of disputes that can be settled using the small claims procedure from \u00a35,000 to \u00a315,000 from next April.<\/p>\n<p>A claimant bringing a legal action is not exposed to paying the other side&#8217;s legal costs if their action fails (conversely, a litigant cannot recover costs of instructing a lawyer).<\/p>\n<p>Hearings are often in chambers and take place in an office so are less intimidating than a court.<\/p>\n<p>The enforcement of court orders can be a problem. The watchdog Consumer Focus, in a report last year, found that one in four small claims users who won their case received only part of the compensation, while 6% ended up with nothing.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible to received an exemption from the court fees because of low income.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small claims to get bigger Ministers are consulting on increasing the value of disputes that can be settled using the small claims procedure from \u00a35,000 to \u00a315,000 from next April. A claimant bringing a legal action is not exposed to paying the other side&#8217;s legal costs if their action fails (conversely, a litigant cannot recover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}