Thread: Please help-Small Claims or fast track

Generally claims up to £5,000 are allocated to the Small Claims Track, claims of between £5,001 and £15,000 where the trial is unlikely to last more than one day are allocated to the Fast Track and claims of more than £15,000 (or where the trial is likely to last more than one day) are allocated to the Multi-Track. The Court does, however, sometimes allocate cases to a different track to the one normally appropriate for example a case which raises difficult questions of law may be allocated to the Fast Track even if the amount claimed is less than £5,000 or a relatively straightforward case such as yours may be allocated to the small claims track even if the amount claimed is over £5,000. This is one of the purposes of the allocation questionnaire, to give the parties the opportunity to indicate which track they think the case should be allocated to.

In the case of the Small Claims track, less preparation is required of the parties (for example normally each party will only be required to provide the other party with copies of documents that the first party intends to use at trial and, unlike in the Fast Track and Multi-Track, not with every relevant document which the first party has) and the court’s pre-trial intervention is normally limited to giving written standard directions when the Allocation Questionnaire is returned by the parties.