Civil lawsuits; type of procedure 2010-2015
Description
This table gives an overview of the number of civil proceedings initiated and terminated in the Netherlands. The number of cases terminated in a given year is regardless of the year in which the case started. Civil (or civil) law regulates the rights between natural persons and/or legal persons such as companies. Civil cases are dealt with by the courts, courts and the Supreme Court of the Netherlands. Since 1 January 2002, the courts have been dealing with civil cases in the ‘canton sector’ or ‘civil sector’.
The old terms “canton courts” and “district courts” have expired on that date.
A civil trial begins with a summons or with a petition.
A summons procedure is a lawsuit that, according to the law, begins with a call to appear before the court. These lawsuits usually end with a judgment or a judgment. Some of these cases end with a settlement or are withdrawn.
Petition procedures are court cases that, according to the law, start with a petition (complaint) to the court to make a certain decision. In most cases, a petition procedure ends with a final decision. Part of the lawsuits end with a settlement or are withdrawn.
As of 1 July 2011, the competence limit for canton cases has changed. From this date, commercial cases with an interest of up to EUR 25,000 will be dealt with by the subdistrict court. Before this date, commercial cases with an interest starting at EUR 5.000 were dealt with by the civil court sector.
The result is a shift of cases from the civil sector to the sector canton of the court.
As of 2011, a change in the registration of custody cases (cases relating to custody of minors) has been introduced in the courts. Cases counted in the other family cases in the canton of the courts until 2011 will be counted as civil authority cases from 2011. In 2011, there were about 45 thousand cases in total.
Data available from: 2010-2015.
Status of the figures:
The figures in this table are definitive figures.
Changes as of 16/02/2018
This table has been discontinued as of 16-2-2018. These statistics are not continued in view of the loss of funding for this statistics.
When will there be new figures?
No longer applicable.
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