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Court Fees For Making a Claim
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Below are listed the Court Fees which were updated on 1st July 2009. The court fee must be paid when the Claim Form (Summons) is submitted to the Court and will be added to your claim. In addition there is now a fee when a hearing is appointed. These are listed separately below.

ISSUE FEES

Claim Amount Court Fee Claim Link Fee
 
Up to £300.00 £30.00 £30.00
£300.01 - £500.00 £45.00 £45.00
£500.01 - £1,000.00 £65.00 £50.00
£1,000.01 - £1,500.00 £75.00 £50.00
£1,500.01 - £3,000.00 £85.00 £50.00
£3,000.01 - £5,000.00 £108.00 £80.00
£5,000.01 - £15,000 £225.00 £100.00

The above fees are all added to your claim. On a successful conclusion the other side will be sent a Court Order (Judgment) to pay these.


HEARING FEE

The Hearing Fee is payable by the Claimant to the Court Service prior to a Court hearing date being allocated. Claim link will carry out a full review of the claim and your documentation, advise you as to how to conduct your claim and any special requests to make to the District Judge.

Claim Amount Court Fee Claim Link Fee
 
Up to £300.00 £25.00 NIL
£300.01 - £500.00 £50.00 NIL
£500.01 - £1,000.00 £75.00 NIL
£1,000.01 - £1,500.00 £100.00 £50.00**
£1,500.01 - £3,000.00 £150.00 £50.00**
£3,000.01 - £5,000.00 £300.00 £50.00**
above £5,000.00 £300.00 £80.00**

The above fees are all added to your claim. On a successful conclusion the other side will be receive a Court Order (Judgment) to pay these.

** Please note that these are optional fees as you may not require this service.

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Claim Link's Processing Fee
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Claim Link charges a fixed fee of £25.00 if you are paid by the Defendant prior to any proceedings being issued. This is purely a nominal charge for processing your claim and is a success fee only. If you are not paid we charge the above fees for filing your claim at court and as stated these are added to your claim. Additional charges are shown below and should be taken into account when taking the decision to commence a claim.

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Additional Court Fees
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  • There is an allocation fee of £35.00 which must be paid to the Court by the Claimant if the claim is between £1,500.00 and £5,000.00 and is set down for a court hearing. For claims over £5,000.00 the Allocation fee is £200.00
  • On obtaining judgment enforcement may be required. A schedule of Court Fees for enforcing a judgment is listed below.
  • Claim Link do make a small charge for processing some of the enforcement options and these are also listed below.

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Enforcement Fees
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Enforcement Option Court Fee Claim-Link Fee
Warrant of Execution (Court Bailiff) £100.00 £35.00
Attachment of Earnings £100.00 £40.00
Charging & Third Party Debt Orders £100.00 £45.00
Winding Up/Bankruptcy Petition £190.00 £60.00
Consent Order £40.00 £40.00
Order To Obtain Information ** £50.00 £75.00
   
** There are additional costs with this option and you should contact us so that we can explain these.
 
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  After the issuing of proceedings the Defendant has 21 days to reply. They have the following options:
  1. To ignore the claim
  2. To admit the claim in full
  3. To defend the claim in full
  4. To admit part of the claim
If no response is received by the court Judgment in Default can be applied for.
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How We Help You
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Claim Link will assess your claim and advise you of the options in order to move forward. When you are happy to proceed we will prepare your Court documents, file them at Court, liaise with the Court and the Defendant and advise you as to how to prepare your document bundle in the event that you should need to attend Court.
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Our Advice Service is completely free and costs you nothing! Simply click on to the button below, fill out the form and we will get straight back to you.
 
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