My master's thesis covers small claims disputes in Slovene law. Their specific feature is that the value of the claim is low and that the costs for the resolution of the dispute are disproportionally high, they may even exceed the value of the dispute. Thus, the Civil Procedure Act provides for a specific arrangement of these disputes that adheres to the principles of cost efficiency and swiftness of procedure. In the regulation of the procedure, the legislators have opted for a quite formal procedure with an emphasis on the principle of written form. In my thesis, I analysed the legal regulation of small claims disputes, I tried to find out where problems in practice were, which issues had been left open by the law, and how case law is responding to this. Furthermore, I presented the opinion of theory and practice about the procedure and the individual institutes, and added my own opinion.
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