Subjects:

Practice & Procedure, Key Annual Titles

Contents:

GENERAL MATTERS

1. The Overriding Objective and Sources of Procedural Law

2. Court Organisation

3. Computing Time

4. Remedies

FUNDING LITIGATION

5. Funding Litigation

6. Conditional Fee Agreements

7. Community Legal Service

BEFORE COMMENCING A CLAIM

8. Pre-action Protocols

9. Notices before Action

COMMENCEMENT

10. Limitation

11. Where to Start Proceedings

12. Issuing Proceedings

13. Part 8 Claims

14. Joinder and Parties

15. Filing and Service

16. Service outside the Jurisdiction

RESPONDING TO A CLAIM

17. Admitting the Claim and Requesting Time to Pay

18. Acknowledging Service and Filing a Defence

19. Disputing the Court's Jurisdiction

20. Default Judgment

SOLICITORS

21. Acting by a Solicitor

22. Change of Solicitor

STATEMENTS OF CASE

23. Claim Form

24. Particulars of Case

25. Schedule of Loss and Damage

26. Defending a Claim

27. Reply and Subsequent Statements of Case

28. Counterclaims

29. Additional Claims under Part 20

30. Further Information

31. Amendments to Statements of Case

INTERIM APPLICATIONS

32. Applications and Interim Orders

33. Striking Out

34. Summary Judgment

35. Possession Claims against Trespassers

36. Interim Payments

37. Interim Injunctions

38. Freezing Injunctions

39. Search Orders

40. Interim Delivery Up of Goods

41. Inspection of Property

CASE MANAGEMENT

42. Case Management

43. Small Claims

44. Fast Track

45. Multi-track

46. Non-compliance, Sanctions and Relief

EVIDENCE

47. General Law of Evidence

48. Disclosure

49. Witness Statements

50. Affidavits

51. Hearsay Evidence

52. Experts and Assessors

DISCONTINUANCE AND STAYS

53. Discontinuance

54. Stays

TRIAL

55. Witness Summonses

56. Giving Evidence without Attending Court

57. Trial Bundles

58. Trial by Jury

59. Trial

60. Non-attendance

61. Judgments and Orders

62. Interest

COSTS

63. Solicitor and Own Client Costs

64. Part 36 Offers

65. Security for Costs

66. Costs Orders

67. Fixed and Predictable Costs on Judgments etc.

68. Assessment of Costs

ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION

69. Arbitration Claims

70. Alternative Dispute Resolution

APPEALS, JUDICIAL REVIEW AND EC REFERENCES

71. The Appeals System

72. Hearing of Appeals

73. Appeals to the House of Lords

74. Judicial Review

75. References to the European Court of Justice

ENFORCEMENT

76. Enforcement

77. Enforcement of Foreign Judgments

78. Committal and Sequestration

INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS AND COMPANIES MATTERS

79. Winding Up and Administration of Registered Companies

80. Bankruptcy

81. Insolvency Applications and Appeals

82. Applications under the Companies Act 1985

83. Director Disqualification

LANDLORD AND TENANT AND POSSESSION PROCEEDINGS

84. Leases and Licenses

85. Forfeiture

86. Introduction to the Statutory Codes

87. Assured Tenancies under the Housing Act 1988

88. Recovering Possession under the Housing Act 1988

89. Secure Tenancies under the Housing Act 1985

90. Homelessness and Housing Act 1996 Appeals

91. Protection from Eviction

92. Business Tenancies

ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AND HARASSMENT

93. Anti-social Behaviour and Harassment

SALE OF GOODS AND CONSUMER CREDIT

94. Sale of Goods

95. Supply of Goods and Services

96. Unfair Contract Terms

97. Consumer Credit

HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE

98. Human Rights and Civil Procedure

TERMINOLOGY

99. Changes in Terminology made by the CPR

APPENDIX 1: CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES 1998 AND PRACTICE DIRECTIONS

APPENDIX 2: PRE-ACTION PROTOCOLS

APPENDIX 3: COURT GUIDES

APPENDIX 4: FORMS

APPENDIX 5: COURT FEES ORDERS

APPENDIX 6: SELECTED LEGISLATION

Blackstone's Civil Practice 2008 provides authoritative expert description and analysis of the process of civil litigation in the county courts and in the High Court. It combines a unique narrative commentary with the full text of the Civil Procedure Rules, Practice Directions and Pre-Action Protocols and Practice Guides. The Updating Supplement was published in January 2008

Blackstone's Civil Practice is now dated to the following year, like most annual editions, and not the current as it has been up until now. There will no edition dated 2007, as it skips from the 2006 edition published September 2006, to the 2008 edition published September 2007.

Blackstone's Civil Practice 2008 is the only civil court text to explain and analyse civil procedure in narrative chapters. Written by a team of expert practitioners and academics, the text follows the course of proceedings from funding litigation and commencement of a claim through to enforcement of judgements. The text offers lucid, practical guidance to the effective conduct of litigation - providing detailed guidance on both the general conduct of litigation and more specialist areas such as judicial review, landlord and tenant and posession proceedings, sale of goods, and consumer credit.

The narrative is supported by procedural checklists, giving quick access to details of required actions, time limits and applicable Rules and Practice Directions. The text is also cross-referenced to comprehensive appendices containing scrupulously edited and up-to-date texts of the Civil Procedure Rules, Practice Directions, Pre-Action Protocols and Court Guides and selected procedural legislation.

All copies of Blackstone's Civil Practice 2008come complete with a CD-ROM, which is issued simultaneously with the bound book. The CD-ROM includes hypertext linking for, among other things, references to the Civil Procedure Rules and Practice Directions. The CD-ROM also includes all relevant forms. The book will be comprehensively updated in April 2008 by a paper supplement, included in the price, containing the December CPR update plus updates to the case law. The book is also accompanied by a regularly updated companion web site.

New to this edition:-

• Quick references at the front of the book, organised by CPR Part and Rule, provide easy access to the relevant parts of the commentary
• Updating supplement to be published in April 2008, which will contain the December CPR update plus updates to the case law
• New, improved layout designed to aid navigation: the Procedural Checklists have moved to the front of the book, and thumbtabs direct the user to both the commentary and the supporting materials Includes all amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules up to those introduced by the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2006 (SI 2006/3435)
• Includes changes up to Update 44
• Includes the new CPR, Part 36 and Practice Directions 36 and 37, dealing with the abolition of payments into court as a means of making offers to settle
• Includes the new rules governing conducting certain case-management and interim hearings by telephone
• Includes the revocation of RSC ord 81 dealing with partnerships and sole traders, which are now brought into the main provisions of the CCR, primarily in Practice Direction 7
• The Pre-action Protocols have been revised to strengthen the provisions dealing with the consideration of alternative dispute resolution in preference to litigation
• New Pre-action Protocol for Rent Arrears
• Revised Pre-action Protocol for Construction and Engineering Disputes
• Includes new rules on withdrawing pre-action admissions
• New Practice Directions supporting Part 8
• New editions of the Admiralty and Commercial Courts Guide, the Supreme Court Costs Office Guide, and the House of Lords Practice Directions and Standing Orders applicable to Civil Appeals
• Discusses new, significant case law