What information will the claim form require?
Now the claim form has a number of different rules associated with it, and thank goodness there are fantastic guidance notes from your court or on the internet. Don't forget your court has offices there that can help you not for legal advice of course, but to help you fill in the claim form. What you need to do is, you need to specify the exact nature of your claim and you need to make that as clear as possible. You also need to put on that form exactly what it is you're claiming. Money and interest in most cases but also an element of compensation. Importantly you need to look at the value, you need to specify the very value of your case. That's easy and it's certain in a specified debt claim that's easy, "Joe Bloggs owes me ten pounds." So you put in the box at the bottom of the page ten pounds and put it right inside. Now if it's an unspecified amount that's a little bit more tricky because you need to specify you need to say you don't, what you expect to recover, a certain amount of money within different brackets. I think one is low, less than five thousand pounds. Another bracket is over five thousand pounds to fifteen thousand pounds. The other one is over fifteen thousand pounds. And the reason for that is it helps the court determine where to put your case and deals with it. If you don't know how much to expect to recover then you simply say that on the claim form.
