Taking court action can be expensive. Depending on your income and the nature of your case you may be eligible for help with legal costs under the legal aid scheme. Legal aid is only available where there’s a serious risk to you or a family member’s health and safety.

If you don’t qualify for legal aid and your claim could be heard in the small housing disrepair claims liverpool, then you’d only have to pay a fixed fee. Small claims is one of three court routes that your case can follow. These routes are called tracks. The other tracks are the fast track and the multi-track.

For claims where the only claim is for compensation (damages), the small claims limit of £10,000 applies. However, if a claim includes an application for an order for repair work it will only be allocated to the small claims track if both the:

estimated damages are less than £1,000, and
estimated cost of the repair work is less than £1,000.
If either amount is expected to be more than £1,000, the court will normally allocate the case to the fast track.