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 2022
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.
Applications accompanied by a * should be stamped with £10 Jurat stamps
Applications accompanied by a ** shall be charged £20 Jurat stamps per half day or part thereof.
Note: an answer may include a counterclaim.
| Reg | Application | Stamp Duty |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | £330 | |
| (ii) where the value of the claim or the value of the assets affected by the claim exceeds £2 million | £1,500 | |
| (b) | Before the Superior Number | £330* |
| (c) | Appeal to the Inferior Number | £330* |
| (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 | £330* | |
| (ii) where the value of the claim or the value of the assets affected by the claim exceeds £2 million | £1,500* | |
| (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 | £330* | |
| (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 | £550* | |
| (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 | £750* | |
| (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 | £1,000* | |
| (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 | £1,250* | |
| (vi) where the value of the claim or the value of the assets affected by the claim exceeds £2 million | £1,500* | |
| (f) | Each intervention or opposition made during the course of an action | |
| 8 | AUTHORITY TO PRACTISE | |
| Architect, dentist, medical practitoner, optician, pharmaceutical chemist, veterinary surgeon | £165 | |
| 9 | CASIER JUDICIAIRE | |
| Certificate relating to criminal convictions | £130 | |
| 15 | COPY OF ACT | |
| (a) | A typewritten copy, each page, Replacement Act of Court signed by Greffier | £16 per page |
| (b) | A Photostat copy, each page | £1.50 |
| (c) | Greffier's certificate and signature | £35 |
| Signed copy liquor licence | £35 | |
| 16 | DEED POLL | |
| Registration | £65 | |
| 17 | DEGREVEMENT | |
| (a) | Application to Court for permission to conduct dégrèvement | £130* |
| (b) | Conduct dégrèvement by Greffier, for each half day or part of a half day | £550 |
| 18 | DESASTRE | |
| (a) | Application to the Court | £220* |
| 20 | DOCUMENTS (INCLUDING WILLS) LODGED AU GREFFE | |
| For each document | £90 | |
| 24 | GUARDIAN AD LITEM | |
| Appointment of | £65 | |
| 26 | JUDGMENTS, REGISTRATION OF Under Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement)( Jersey ) Law 1960 | |
| (a) | Application for registration | £330 |
| (b) | Application for a certified copy of a judgment obtained in the Royal Court | £35 |
| 27 | LEGITIMACY ( JERSEY ) LAW 1973 | |
| Presentation and hearing of petition for decree of legitimacy & illegitimacy | £165* | |
| 28 | LICENSING (JERSEY) LAW 1974 | |
| Each application and each declaration made in pursuance of the Law to the Licensing Assembly or the Royal Court | £90* | |
| Registration of Manager | £90* | |
| Ex parte applications to the Assembly | £90* | |
| 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 | £550* | |
| (ii) where the value of the claim or the value of the assets affected by the remonstrance, representation or doléance exceeds £2 million | £1,500* | |
| 37 | SEARCHES AU GREFFE | |
| (a) | By members of Greffe staff, each half hour | £35 |
| (b) | Other searches, each half hour | £16 |
| 38 | SUMMONS, HEARING OF - | |
| (a) | Fixing date for hearing before Greffier | £130 |
| (b) | Contested order by the Greffier, each half day or part of a half day | £330 |
| 40 | SUMMONS, SERVICE OF, order for service out of jurisdiction and/or substituted service | £330 each or for both if applied for together |
| 40A | CONSENT ORDERS WITHOUT HEARING | |
| For approval of a consent order where no hearing has occurred | £130 | |
| 41 | TAXATION OF COSTS BY GREFFIER, for each half hour | £130 |
| 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 | £330 |
Applications accompanied by a * should be stamped with £10 Jurat stamps
Applications accompanied by a ** shall be charged £20 Jurat stamps per day or part thereof
No stamps are needed for affidavits