Where and how

Find which court in which member State to turn to if efforts at settling a dispute amicably have failed with a company, a professional person, your employer, a member of your family or somebody else in your own country or abroad.

Having determined which court, in which Member State, is competent to hear a case, what happens next?

When you are involved in litigation in a case where not all the facts of the case are connected with the same country, there is a need to establish the law which will be applied by the court in making a decision on the substance of the matter.

If a citizen envisages going to court or wishes to enforce a court judgment information must be available on the costs of proceedings in the relevant Member State.

National information on how each EU country calculates statutory interest rates.