Subjects:

Practice & Procedure

Contents:

1. What is "Effective Litigation"?

2. The Roles of Legal Practitioners

3. The Professional Context - Ethos and Ethics

4. An Overview of the Litigation Process

5. Running a Case in a Business-like way and Assessing Risks

6. Financing Litigation

7. Techniques for Meetings With Clients

8. Advising a Client and Taking Instructions

9. Establishing and Managing Facts

10. Managing and Using Legal Knowledge

11. Defining Issues to State a Case

12. Skills in Legal Writing

13. Drafting a Statement of Case

14. Deciding Who Should Sue Whom

15. Pursuing Appropriate Remedies and Relief

16. The Vital Role of Evidence

17. Procedural Rules as Practical Tools

18. Defending an Action

19. The Contract Model

20. The Tort Model

21. Settling a Case

22. Preparing a Case for Trial

23. Presenting a Case in Court

24. Enforcing or Challenging a Judgement

25. Your Practice

This book analyses the key skills that a lawyer needs to handle a case effectively following the litigation process from beginning to end. It presents these skills in a practical way, and in the context of using law and the rules of procedure and evidence.

Key Features

• A comprehensive guide to the use of legal skills in practice, combined with substantive law and procedural and evidential rules
• Offers sound advice on analysing a case and representing a client, as well as guidance on writing and drafting effectively
• Includes practical examples, checklists and forms to help practitioners navigate their way round this area of law
• Provides a step-by-step guide to litigation from the first interview to post-judgement

• Completely updated to reflect changes in the rules of civil procedure and evidence, as well as the relevant case law
• More checklists and how-to-do-it guides focusing on collecting evidence for a case; reviewing the strengths of a case, and deciding how to take a case forward
• More focus on practical and business aspects, including costs, collecting and preparing evidence and dealing with the other side effectively
• New chapter on running a case in a business like way and assessing risks