Subjects:

Legal Manuals

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Preaction conduct of litigation

3. Commencement of proceedings

4. Responding to a claim

5. Statements of case

6. Judgment in default

7. Track allocation

8. Parties and joinder

9. Part 20 claims

10. Interim applications

11. Service outside the jurisdiction

12. Summary judgment

13. Interim payments and provisional damages

14. Interim injunctions

15. Freezing injunctions

16. Search orders

17. Small claims track

18. Fast track

19. Multi-track

20. Disclosure of documents

21. Special disclosure orders

22. Requests for further information

23. Limitation

24. Amendment

25. Renewal of proceedings

26. Security for costs

27. Part 36 offers and payments

28. Halting proceedings

29. Expert evidence

30. Witness statements

31. Hearsay in civil cases

32. Admissions, notes to admit and to produce

33. Trial

34. References to the European court

35. Community legal service and financing litigation

36. Costs

37. Judgments and orders

38. Enforcement

39. Appeals

Civil Litigation provides the student with an excellent working knowledge of how civil cases are conducted. Clients, instructing solicitors and judiciary expect counsel to be fully conversant with all the features of civil practice and so this manual explains these features concisely and accessibly. Counsel dealing with civil cases soon find that procedural questions arise more frequently than points of substantive law and a good grasp of procedure is essential to ensure that problems are avoided and that cases are dealt with justly. In response to this, Civil Litigation provides students with the necessary thorough grounding in civil procedure.

This manual covers the whole range of procedure, from the use of Pre-Action Protocols, through issue and service of proceedings, track allocation and judicial case management, to trial, costs and appeals. It also incorporates all recent changes to the Civil Procedure Rules, as well as a number of recent case law developments.

This edition is fully cross-referenced to Blackstone's Civil Practice .