Jurisdiction
List of Judicial Territories
As a starting point legal proceedings have to be commenced before a
court of first instance, therefore, depending on the nature and value
of the legal claim, before the Subdistrict Court or District Court within
whose territory the defendant’s domicile, seat or head office is
located. In the list below you’ll find all the municipalities of
the Netherlands in alphabetical order, mentioning as well the relevant
Subdistrict Court ('Kanton'), District Court ('Rechtbank')
and Court of Appeal ('Gerechtshof' or simply 'Hof')
with territorial jurisdiction regarding defendants living in the municipality
named on the left. Usually each municipality encloses various towns. If
you only have the name of the town where the defendant lives, you can
search on the website of www.metatopos.org
for the corresponding municipality. An appeal in cassation, for instance
against a judgement of a Court of Appeal, has to be initiated at all times
at the Supreme Court at the Hague, so it is not mentioned separately.
Although we have tried to make the list below as
accurate as possible, it’s conceivable that it contains errors
or that some facts have changed in course of time.
First character of sought Municipality
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