High Court
Step 3 - Submit Your Claim Notice
You must submit the completed original Claim Notice (known as a Summary Summons in the High Court), and one copy of it, to the Central Office of the High Court. This is called submitting your claim. The documents can be submitted by post or in-person in the Central Office. The Central Office runs an appointment booking service for in-person submissions. For more information on booking an appointment, please see the Appointment Booking Service page.
On the day of your appointment, you must first pay the appropriate court fee on the copy before submitting your original Claim Notice. This court fee can be paid at the Stamping Office in the Áras Uí Dhálaigh building in the Four Courts complex in Dublin. You can pay these fees by card or cash.
- For claims up to and including €100,000, the court fee is €150.
- For claims greater than €100,000, up to and including €150,000, the court fee is €170.
- For claims greater than €150,000, up to and including €500,000, the court fee is €190.
- For claims greater than €500,000, up to and including €1,000,000, the court fee is €250.
- For claims greater than €1,000,000, the court fee is €400.
When you submit your Claim Notice (and copy) in the Central Office, it is checked by a member of the Courts Service staff. If the Claim Notice is incorrectly completed, the Central Office cannot accept it and will return it to you to be corrected. When you have corrected it, you can resubmit the forms to the Central Office.
Once the Claim Notice is correctly completed and checked, the office will give it a case record number, issue it, and return the form to you. You must then send a copy of your Claim Notice to the respondent. This is called serving the claim (for more information on serving, please see step 4). The court office will keep a copy of the Claim Notice for their records.
Note: It is very important that you keep the original document as you will need it later in the process if you proceed with the claim.