Subjects:

Legal Manuals, Personal Injury Law

This guide provides a thorough and practical introduction to the large and complex area of personal injury and clinical negligence litigation. The text sets out in a practical way how personal injury and clinical injury claims are conducted under the Civil Procedure Rules, and the authors clearly and succinctly explain how to conduct a case from the first interview through to the quantification of damages.

In particular, they provide a thorough treatment of how case management works under the fast track and multi-track procedures and explain how ADR has become an increasingly important part of litigation. The appendices include pre-action protocols for personal injury claims and for the resolution of clinical disputes.

This new edition has been fully updated to take into account all recent developments, including references to the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007, the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, the update to Part 36 of the CPR 1998, Sutcliffe v BMI Healthcare Ltd (2007), Crofton v NHS Litigation Authority (2007), Intel Corporation (UK) Limited v Daw (2007) and Lamont v Burton (2007).