Progress in Improved Cross-Border Small Claims Procedure
A draft law to improve and broaden the use of a simplified procedure for low-value cross-border claims to recover money from abroad has been informally agreed by MEPs and the Latvian Presidency of the European Council. The European Small Claims Procedure, in use since 2009, is a simplified procedure based on standard forms for recovering […]
New Rules for Cross-Border Judgments
New EU rules came into force on 10th January that are designed to help businesses and consumers resolve cross-border legal disputes more easily and save an expected €48 million each year across the EU. The new rules abolish the previous procedure, which could be costly and lengthy but was apparently still used around 10,000 times […]