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Small Claim Rules

As from 28 NOVEMBER 2016, if you are raising a claim which seeks payment for £5000 or less, delivery or recovery of possession of moveable property or an order for someone to do something specific where there is an alternative claim for £5000 or less, you should use the SIMPLE PROCEDURE.

Act of Sederunt (Small Claim Rules) 2002 No. 133

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Chapter 1 - Citation, interpretation and application (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 2 - Representation (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 2A - Lay representation (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 3 - Relief from failure to comply with rules (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 4 - Commencement of claim (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 5 - Register of Small Claims (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 6 - Service and return of the summons (1) (?) (?) Actions lodged before 4 April 2011 (?)	Download
Chapter 6 - Service and return of the summons (2) (?) (?) Actions lodged on or after 4 April 2011 (?)	Download
Chapter 7 - Arrestment (1) (?) (?) For arrestments on the dependence made prior to 1 April 2008 (?)	Download
Chapter 7 - Interim diligence (2) (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 8 - Undefended claim (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 9 - Defended claim (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 10 - Incidental applications and sists (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 11 - Counterclaim (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 12 - Alteration of summons etc. (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 13 - Additional defender (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 13A - Internventions by the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 13B - Interventions by the Scottish Commission for Human Rights (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 14 - Applications for sist of party and transference (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 15 - Transfer and remit of claims (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 16 - Productions and documents (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 17 - Recovery of documents and attendance of witnesses (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 17A - Vulnerable Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2004 (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 18 - European Court (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 19 - Abandonment (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 20 - Decrees by default (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 21 - Decrees, extracts, execution and variation (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 22 - Recall of decree (1) (?) (?) Actions raised prior to 4 April 2011 but not determined prior to 4 April 2011 (?)	Download
Chapter 22 - Recall of decree (2) (?) (?) Actions raised on or after 4 April 2011; and actions raised and determined prior to 4 April (?)	Download
Chapter 23- Appeals (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 24 - Management of damages payable to persons under legal disability (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 25 - Electronic transmission of documents (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 26 - Equality enactments (1) (?) (?) Actions lodged before 1 October 2010 (?)	Download
Chapter 26 - The Equality Act 2010 (2) (?) (?) Actions lodged on or after 1 October 2010 (?)	Download
Chapter 27 - Live Links (?) (?) (?)	Download
Appendix 2 - Glossary (?) (?) (?)	Download

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Information about Small Claims
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(For small claims actions raised before 28 November 2016)

See also Act of Sederunt (Electronic Authentication) 2016 (SSI No. 2016/306)

See also Act of Sederunt (Lay Representation for Non-Natural Persons) 2016 No. 243 which comes into force on 28 November 2016.

Procedural rules for applications to the court for permission for a lay representative to conduct proceedings on behalf of a non-natural person

A "non-natural person" means:

a company (whether incorporated in the United Kingdom or elsewhere);
a limited liability partnership;
any other partnership; or
an unincorporated association of persons.

Lay Representation in civil cases

SSI's amending the rules

As amended by Scottish Statutory Instruments:

Small Claim Rules

Act of Sederunt (Small Claim Rules) 2002 No. 133

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