Claiming Interest

You can claim interest on the money the defendant owes you. If you want to claim interest, you must include it in your ‘particulars of claim’. Write your claim in the following way: ‘The claimant claims interest under section 69 of the County Courts Act 1 984 at the rate of 8% a year, from [date when the money became owed to you] to [the date you are issuing the claim] of £ [put in the amount] and also interest at the same rate up to the date of judgment or earlier payment at a daily rate of [enter the daily rate of interest].

Personal Injury

 

 

Small Claim forms 2012 (downloads)

• Making a small claim? Some questions to ask yourself
• How to make a claim
• Debt recovery for businesses

Stage 2: The defendant's response

• A claim has been made against me - What should I do?
• No reply to my claim form - what should I do?
• The defendant disputes all or part of my claim
• The defendant admits my claim - I claimed a fixed amount of money
• The defendant admits my claim - I did not claim a fixed amount of money
• The small claims track
• The fast track and the multi track
  

If you have delayed issuing proceedings for any reason, you may wish to seek legal advice before issuing your small claim.

{Please note the above forms are copyrighted to HMCS}

• Need small claims forms for Scotland? see Small Claims Forms
  
• Need free legal advice from your CAB see Citizens Advice Bureaux