Trial: Citizen can go to 'Route

At four courts in the Netherlands, citizens can right from March 1 For a simpler handling of civil matters, such as a neighbor's quarrel, rental conflict or traffic fine. At the Subdistrict Court of Overijssel, The Hague, Zeeland-West-Brabant and Rotterdam, experimentation will be made with this so-called 'Route Minister Eddy van Hijum (Social Affairs, NSC) expects the threshold to go to court will be lower.

For a few years, pilots with direct courts have been walking to see if some lawsuits could be handled cheaper, faster and more accessible. For example, there was district court in The Hague Zuidwest, a neighborhood judge in Amsterdam-Zuidoost and there were outright courts in Rotterdam and Dordrecht. The Ministry of Justice and Security expects that the outdoor judges will handle around four hundred cases annually.

Only in cases that a subdistrict court judge must judge, such as labor disputes or family matters, will an outdoor deployment be deployed. Now, for such procedures, all kinds of legally substantiated documents sometimes have to be submitted and a bailiff is needed to start a case. With the out of the right, this is no longer necessary, but a case can be requested online via a form.

It is also possible to arrange a payment arrears with a creditor, such as a health insurer, housing corporation or energy supplier, in an accessible manner via the out of the right. The court invites the defendant by letter, WhatsApp and e-mail for the informal session.

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