Justice for Some: Regressive Effects of Increased Access to Small Claim Courts

The article is devoted to the problem of translating legal terms from Ukrainian into English on the basis of a case study of a newly-coined term in Ukrainian legislation – ‘maloznachna sprava’. The relevance of the topic of legal translation from English into Ukrainian and vice versa has become especially acute in light of the Ukraine-EU approximation agreement. The author emphasises the necessity to perform concept analysis between the terms in the EU and Ukraine simplified procedures and comes to the conclusion that despite having surface similarity to the EU term ‘small claim’, the Ukrainian term ‘maloznachna sprava’ is, in fact, a much wider concept. A range of translations of legal neologisms are described in the article, and the need to use a literal translation of the term is substantiated. As a result of the analysis of possible translation options and the ECtHR translation precedent, it is recommended that the term ‘maloznachna sprava’ should be translated as ‘insignificant case’ within the sphere of Ukrainian civil procedure. Keywords: legal translation, Ukrainian-English translation, small claim, insignificant case.

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Small Claim Procedure: A New Concept on Consumer’s Dispute Settlement in Indonesia

Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Law and Local Wisdom in Tourism (ICBLT 2018) ◽

10.2991/icblt-18.2018.28 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Rai Mantili ◽

Anita Afriana ◽

Ema Rahmawati

Keyword(s):

Dispute Settlement ◽

Small Claim

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Staking a small claim for fictional narratives in social and educational research

Qualitative Research ◽

10.1177/1468794111404317 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 395-408 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Cate Watson

Keyword(s):

Educational Research ◽

Small Claim ◽

Fictional Narratives

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A Practical Approach to Civil Procedure

10.1093/he/9780192844521.001.0001 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Stuart Sime

Keyword(s):

Road Traffic ◽

Case Law ◽

Civil Procedure ◽

Civil Litigation ◽

Practical Approach ◽

Small Claim ◽

Key Points ◽

Rule Changes ◽

Summary Judgment ◽

Civil Courts

A Practical Approach to Civil Procedure guides the reader through the procedural requirements employed in the civil courts. The volume provides an overview of the key statutory provisions, rules, practice directions, and case law which govern the various stages of a civil litigation claim. Providing practical guidance, the text charts the progress of a typical civil litigation claim, from funding litigation, the importance of alternative dispute resolution processes, issuing and serving proceedings, case management, and through to trial, enforcement, and appeal. Relevant sample documentation is featured throughout and introduces the forms and documents which will be encountered in practice, while key points summaries featured at the end of chapters highlight the essential points covered. This edition has been revised to incorporate rule changes up to the Civil Procedure (Amendment No 2) Rules 2021 and the 129th Update. Changes incorporated into the new edition include: Pre-action protocol for small claim road traffic accident cases and the new PD 27B; procedural aspects of the tariff system for whiplash injuries under the Civil Liability Act 2018; recent case law on service of claim forms and particulars of claim; revised rules on costs management; changes to the rules on statements of truth; revisions to the chapter on summary judgment, including the cheque rule and the approach taken in summary judgment applications for discretionary remedies; replacement PD 51U on disclosure of documents in the Business and Property Courts; case law developments on legal professional privilege and without prejudice privilege; developments on search orders, and case law on imaging orders; further guidance on remote hearings; and debt respite procedures.

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Regressive Effekte im kommunalen Finanzausgleich der neuen Länder? / Regressive Effects in Local Fiscal Relations of the German New Länder

Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik ◽

10.1515/jbnst-1999-5-610 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 218 (5-6) ◽

Author(s):

Kilian Bizer ◽

Rainer Scholl

Keyword(s):

Regressive Effects

ZusammenfassungDie Verfahren zur Verteilung der Finanzmassen im kommunalen Finanzausgleich sind seit langem Gegenstand heftiger Auseinandersetzungen. In jüngerer Zeit ist diese Diskussion um eine weitere Dimension erweitert worden, soweit nämlich dem Instrument Schüsselzuweisungen unerwünschte regressive Effekte vorgeworfen werden. Insbesondere für die Gemeinden in den neuen Ländern bestehe die Gefahr, daß der Finanzausgleich seine distributive Funktion nicht erfüllen kann. Dieser Aufsatz untersucht anhand der Finanzausgleichssysteme der Länder Brandenburg und Sachsen, ob regressive Effekte beobachtet werden können.

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