How To Know Where To Go To Sue Someone
Enlarge
How To Know Where To Go To Sue Someone
Tanya Msimang (Litigation Expert) gives expert video advice on: Where do I go to sue someone?
Where do I go to sue someone?
We've been through alternative dispute resolution, we've been through the letter before action, and we've sent it. There has been no response within the time that we requested. We now need to think of the court as being our only option. When we're talking about taking legal action where you're in the driving seat, we're talking about county court action. In brief, there are lots of different courts around. The county courts will deal with those less valuable and less high-profile cases. The high courts and the Royal courts of justice will deal with the high-value, high-profile cases. What we're talking about is an action in the county court. The county court can deal with all types of cases, from debt resolution, debt recovery, employment cases, personal injury, traffic accidents; a whole manner of cases. The key is that the county court will generally deal with cases in the small claims court for cases that have a value of less than five thousand pounds. If you're looking at personal injury cases or housing disrepair, the level there is a thousand pounds. When you're looking to go for a claim yourself and you're not going to get anybody else involved to advise you, you're looking at the small claims court, which is a process within the county court that is ideally set up for what we call 'litigants-in-person' - those people who are sorting the case out for themselves.
Thanks for watching How To Know Where To Go To Sue Someone