§ Vera BairdTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs pursuant to the answer of 31 March 2004,Official Report, column 1417W, on small claims, what research projects the Department has conducted. [168621]
§ Mr. LammyThe Department's Research Unit has commissioned and published two reports by Professor John Baldwin on small claims. They are
No. 1/97 Monitoring the rise of the small claims limit: litigants' experiences of different forms of adjudicationNo 8/02 Lav and judicial perspectives on the expansion of the small claims regimeA report by Professor Joanna Shapland, Angela Sorsby and Jeremy Hibbert: A Civil Justice Audit was published by the Department in 2000. This looked at the value, nature and progress of cases through the County Court in Sheffield and included data on small claims.
1250WThe DCA Research Unit has recently begun a study of a scheme to mediate small claims in Exeter County Court. The DCA's Consumer Strategy Review has also looked at small claims as part of its project on debt.