Hi I need the address of the small claims court in Amsterdam Holland. Can anyone help.? Please.

Did you get stiffed by a hooker?

Dutch.
Did you not have a mother?
If you did, did you not hear her say, " If you do not have anything nice to say.......................

Are you sure there is the equivalent of what you know as "small claims court" in Amsterdam's legal system? That is not a universal concept. Better call a consulate or use google extensively to read up on your options, legal advice from fellow travellers might be well-meaning but possibly less than reliable...

Dutch, go to your room!

As far as I know there is no such thing here in Holland. I have never needed to make use of such a thing and have never heard of one, which of course doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Consumers here are well protected by law and usually manage to sort things out through arbitration/ombudsmen if needed.
Why do you need to make a claim? Maybe I can direct you to somewhere appropriate.

You could try www.juridischloket.nl and click on contact. The website is purely in Dutch and aimed at Dutch consumers, but they may be able to help.

Hi Settlers,

In civil cases concerning 5000 euro or less you can address the 'sector kanton' of the court. Representation by a lawyer is not obligatory. Not sure if you are from the US but The Netherlands use the Civil law system as opposed to the Common law system the US use and things might be very different from what you are used to. So while you aren't obliged to, I'm not sure you won't need representation.

The general rule is that the legal residence of the defendant determines which court has jurisdiction.
For Amsterdam that is:

Rechtbank Amsterdam
Parnassusweg 220
1076 AV Amsterdam

00-31-(0)20-541 21 11

Is this what you were looking for? It's hard to give advice not knowing more about what it is for. If you need more help let me know.

Settlers is having an on going problem with an apartment fraud.
sorry i can't help but there must be a Dutch equivalent of trading standards that may be able to help.

ici - thanks for bringing up my mom and my lifetime of guilt.

Now - back to my room.

settlers: Reading your other thread, I still don't understand why you can't dispute the charge w/ your credit card company. You mentioned something about "dispute is not possible because it was a service instead of merchandise".

That doesn't make sense to me - in fact the ONLY charges I've ever had reason to dispute were non-delivered services.

"it was a service instead of merchandise"

maybe Dutch is not so far off?

Sounds like settlers has exhausted the credit card route and been turned down

Now she/he is simply asking about a small claims court if it exists.

Thank you all for your replies. I am still trying to receive the refund for an apartment booked and paid for but which became unavailable. I have emails from owner the latest asking me to "hang on in there" but for how long I do not know. This has been going on since July/Aug 2008. I appreciate your advice and I will write to the address given by vakantie also website given by hetismij. I will ring owner again but only ever get voicemail but will give him another chance, so many chances. Ah well Buyer Beware I suppose. Thanks again

Sorry I forgot to mention that I went credit card route, Amex, but they will not help. Maybe it's because I live in Australia.

If needed we can send some FodorHooligans to rough up the flat's owner, etc. Just give the word - a Fodor posse will form and go to Amsterdamned.

Dutch,
Isn't that her job in the first place, poor English verb usage aside.

IR