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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/high-court-and-county-courts-jurisdiction-amendment-order-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1014",
  "legislation_title": "The High Court and County Courts Jurisdiction (Amendment) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/high-court-and-county-courts-jurisdiction-amendment-order-1999",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order makes amendments to the High Court and County Court Jurisdiction Order 1991 as a result of the implementation of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 on 26th April 1999. The effects of the amendments are as follows:\nTo restrict commencement of claims for money in the High Court to claims for more than £15,000. As at present, a personal injury claim, other than a claim for clinical negligence, may not be brought in the High Court unless the claim is for £50,000 or more.\nTo omit article 7 dealing with allocation of trial as there are provisions governing this in the Civil Procedure Rules.\nTo change the limit of a judgment or order of a county court that may be enforced only in a county court from £1,000 to £600.\nTo provide that the financial value of a claim is to be calculated in accordance with the Civil Procedure Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1014/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:05.849698+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}