An allocation questionnaire is a form used in Englishlegal practice. After a claim is made, if a defence is filed each party is required to complete and return an allocation questionnaire to the court so that the judge may properly allocate the claim to a track and give further directions towards a final hearing.
Sample allocation questionnaires are available on the Internet. The official UK Courts web site has many forms available, including the allocation questionnaire.[1] The actual form is available, as of March 2007, as a pdf file.[2]
The Citizens Advice Bureau provides a generic legal advice web site with information about the words and phrases used in small claims procedure in UK Courts.[3]
The form itself
The allocation questionnaire is a Pivotal Point in the judicial process requesting the following information:
Whether you wish to have a month to settle the case.
What is the location or venue of the case, and why it is chosen.
Whether any pre-action protocols applied, and whether these were complied with.
Small claims - any claim up to £10,000 and certain personal injury and tenant claims under £1,000.
Fast track - disputes involving between £10,000 and £25,000.
Intermediate track - disputes valued at between £25,000 and £100,000, and which could be heard in under three days, and requiring no more than two expert witnesses
Multi-track - for cases where the value of the claim or the complexity of the evidence and/or legal issues to be decided means the claim is not suitable for the other tracks. All Part 8 proceedings are allocated to the Multi-track.[2]
The Woolf Report had recommended allocation cases to different tracks in 1999.[5]
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