Samedi Division fees
Samedi section services
The services provided by the Samedi section are:
- managing actions pending before the Royal Court
- taxing of costs
- administering the Legal Aid Disbursements Fund
- processing appeals from the Magistrate’s, Youth and Petty Debts Courts
- registering doctors and other professional persons
- registering Deeds Poll
- registering Foreign Judgments
- registering Foreign Maintenance Orders
- conducting Dégrèvements (Discumberments of Immovable Property)
- managing the Electoral College List
- acting as Postal Voting Officer at Public Elections
- acting as Greffier Arbitre (Official Assessor or Arbitrator)
- drafting Rules of Court
- holding and investing monies paid into Court
- processing Liquor Licences (issued by the Licensing Assembly)
- processing Gambling Licences (issued by the Gambling Licensing Authority)
- preparing petitions of the Superior Number of the Royal Court to His Majesty in Council
- registration and indexing of Orders in Council
Samedi section fees with effect from April 28th 2025
Note that this list is intended as a guide only to the most common applications. It is not exhaustive. If any query arises, Stamp Duties and Fees (Jersey) Law 1998 - Part I of the Schedule should be referred to.
Stamp Duties and Fees (Jersey) Law on the Jersey Law website.
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| Reg | Application | Stamp Duty | Fee code |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2(2) | ACTIONS - In the Royal Court on Table or au Greffe | ||
| (a) | First billet in the proceedings or counterclaim in an action | ||
| (i) where the value of the claim or the value of the assets affected by the claim does not exceed £2 million | £383 | SC022A1 | |
| (ii) where the value of the claim or the value of the assets affected by the claim exceeds £2 million | £1,740 | SC022A2 | |
| (b) | Before the Superior Number | £383 | SC022B |
| (c) | Appeal to the Inferior Number | £383 | SC022C |
| (d) | Setting down for hearing | ||
| (i) where the value of the claim or the value of the assets affected by the claim does not exceed £2 million | £383 | SC022D1 | |
| (ii) where the value of the claim or the value of the assets affected by the claim exceeds £2 million | £1,740 | SC022D2 | |
| (e) | Hearing of the action in a case, or any interlocutory matter therein, where the court appoints a special day for judging a dispute between parties, whether or not witnesses are heard, for each half day or part of a half day | ||
| (i) where the value of the claim or the value of the assets affected by the claim does not exceed £100,000 | £383 | SC022E1 | |
| (ii) where the value of the claim or the value of the assets affected by the claim exceeds £100,000 but does not exceed £500,000 | £638 | SC022E2 | |
| (iii) where the value of the claim or the value of the assets affected by the claim exceeds £500,000 but does not exceed £1 million | £870 | SC022E3 | |
| (iv) where the value of the claim or the value of the assets affected by the claim exceeds £1 million but does not exceed £1.5 million | £1,160 | SC022E4 | |
| (v) where the value of the claim or the value of the assets affected by the claim exceeds £1.5 million but does not exceed £2 million | £1,450 | SC022E5 | |
| (vi) where the value of the claim or the value of the assets affected by the claim exceeds £2 million but does not exceed £10 million | £1,740 | SC022E6 | |
| (vii) where the value of the claim or the value of the assets affected by the claim exceeds £10 million | £5,000 | SC022E7 | |
| (f) | Each intervention or opposition made during the course of an action | £75 | SC022F |
| 8 | AUTHORITY TO PRACTISE | ||
| Architect, dentist, medical practitoner, optician, pharmaceutical chemist, veterinary surgeon | £191 | SC08A | |
| 9 | CASIER JUDICIAIRE | ||
| Certificate relating to criminal convictions | £151 | SC09A | |
| 15 | COPY OF ACT | ||
| (a) | A typewritten copy, each page, Replacement Act of Court signed by Greffier | £18 per page | |
| (b) | A Photostat copy, each page | £2 | |
| (c) | Greffier's certificate and signature | £43 | |
| Signed copy liquor licence | £43 | ||
| 16 | DEED POLL | ||
| Registration | £75 | SC16A | |
| 17 | DEGREVEMENT | ||
| (a) | Application to Court for permission to conduct dégrèvement | £151 | SC17A |
| (b) | Conduct dégrèvement by Greffier, for each half day or part of a half day | £638 | SC17B |
| 18 | DESASTRE | ||
| (a) | Application to the Court | £255 | SC18A |
| 20 | DOCUMENTS (INCLUDING WILLS) LODGED AU GREFFE | ||
| For each document | £104 | SC20A | |
| 24 | GUARDIAN AD LITEM | ||
| Appointment of | £75 | SC24A | |
| 26 | JUDGMENTS, REGISTRATION OF Under Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement)( Jersey ) Law 1960 | ||
| (a) | Application for registration | £383 | SC26A |
| (b) | Application for a certified copy of a judgment obtained in the Royal Court | £43 | SC26B |
| 27 | LEGITIMACY ( JERSEY ) LAW 1973 | ||
| Presentation and hearing of petition for decree of legitimacy & illegitimacy | £191 | SC27A | |
| 28 | LICENSING (JERSEY) LAW 1974 | ||
| Each application and each declaration made in pursuance of the Law to the Licensing Assembly or the Royal Court | £104 | SC28A | |
| Registration of Manager | £104 | SC28B | |
| Ex parte applications to the Assembly | £104 | SC28C | |
| For fees to accompany applications for full licences see the Licensing (Licence Fees) Jersey Regulations, 1988. Such fees are payable to the Treasury. | |||
| 36 (a) | REMONSTRANCE, REPRESENTATION OR DOLEANCE | ||
| Presentation to Court, for example | |||
| (i) where the value of the claim or the value of the assets affected by the remonstrance, representation or doléance does not exceed £2 million | £383 | SC36A1 | |
| (ii) where the value of the claim or the value of the assets affected by the remonstrance, representation or doléance exceeds £2 million but does not exceed £10 million | £1,740 | SC36A2 | |
| (iii) where the value of the claim or the value of the assets affected by the remonstrance, representation or doléance exceeds £10 million | £5,000 | SC36A3 | |
| (b) | (i) Representations etc., claim or assets less than £2 million, hearing per half day | £383 | SC36B1 |
| (ii) Representations etc., claim or assets between £2 and £10 million, hearing per half day | £1,740 | SC36B2 | |
| (iii) Representations etc., claim or assets more than £10 million, hearing per half day | £5,000 | SC36B3 | |
| 37 | SEARCHES AU GREFFE | ||
| (a) | By members of Greffe staff, each half hour | £43 | |
| (b) | Other searches, each half hour | £18 | |
| 38 | SUMMONS, HEARING OF - | ||
| (a) | Fixing date for hearing before Greffier | £151 | SC38A |
| (b) | Contested order by the Greffier, each half day or part of a half day | £383 | SC38B |
| 40 | SUMMONS, SERVICE OF, order for service out of jurisdiction and/or substituted service | £383 each or for both if applied for together | SC40 |
| 40A | CONSENT ORDERS WITHOUT HEARING | ||
| For approval of a consent order where no hearing has occurred | £151 | SC40A | |
| 41 | TAXATION OF COSTS BY GREFFIER, for each half hour | £151 | SC41A |
| 43 | TRUSTS AND CORPORATIONS under Loi (1862) sur les tenures en fideicommis et l'incorporation d'associations, application for creation or extension of a Trust or an Act of incorporation | £383 | SC43A |
| 49 | Application for Gender Recognition Certificate | £75 | SC49A |