District Court debt claim, in three steps.
Letter before action, claim notice, judgment in default. Each step waits for your decision.
Step 1. Letter before action
Clausa drafts the letter from the invoices: balance, due date, interest and compensation under S.I. 580/2012 where it applies between businesses, the deadline. You decide the period and the amount.
Step 2. Claim notice
Statement of claim in numbered paragraphs, the costs indorsement, the service forms filled from the file, and a 28-day alert. You decide the court area and the mode of service.
Step 3. Judgment in default
The forms for the application, the affidavit of debt and the decree, filled field by field from the ledger you checked. The client swears the affidavit.
What Clausa never drafts
- Interest against a consumer
- Any free text outside the statement of claim
- Any free text in an affidavit
- Any enforcement document (it lists the options with their source)
What you decide
- Whether to threaten proceedings
- The period and the amount
- The court area and any abandonment of an excess over €15,000
- The mode of service
Deadlines it tracks
- 28 days for appearance and defence
- One year's validity of the claim notice
- One month for the affidavit of debt
- Six-year limitation
Source: each deadline shows its rule and the version date of the law, and starts unconfirmed.
This use case switches on for your firm after a solicitor in your firm reviews its templates. Rules and time limits are cited with their version date.