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When pursuing a debt in Euros, for the purposes of calculating the value of the claim for determining High Court or County Court issue thresholds and issue fee and solicitor’s costs for inclusion on the claim form, do you need to use the converted sterling value?

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The court issue fee payable, the fixed solicitor’s costs that can be claimed and the value to determine whether to issue in the High Court or the County Court are all dependant on the value of the claim in sterling. The Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (CPR), SI 1998/3132 stipulate how a claim expressed in a foreign currency

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