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Samedi section services and 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 Her 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 1998 on Jersey Law website 

Applications accompanied by a * should be stamped with £10 Jurats stamps
Applications accompanied by a ** shall be charged £20 Jurat stamps per half day or part thereof

NB 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 £65
8
AUTHORITY TO PRACTISE 
Architect, dentist, medical practioner, optician, pharmaceutical chemist, veterinary surgeon £165
9
CASIER JUDICIAIRE 
Certificate relating to criminal convictions £130
15COPY 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
17DEGREVEMENT 
(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
18DESASTRE  
(a)Application to the Court £220*
20
 
DOCUMENTS (INCLUDING WILLS) LODGED AU GREFFE 
For each document £90
24
 
GUARDIAN AD LITEM 
Appointment of £65
26JUDGMENTS, 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
 £330*
​(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
(b)Where the Court fixes a special day for the hearing, 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 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*
37SEARCHES AU GREFFE 
(a)By members of Greffe staff, each half hour £35
(b)Other searches, each half hour £16
38SUMMONS, 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
40SUMMONS, 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
41TAXATION 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 half day or part thereof

No stamps are needed for affidavits

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