Subjects:

Practice & Procedure, Key Annual Titles

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April 2007: Price Update

Used daily by thousands of lawyers and judges nationwide for the whole range of civil cases, the Civil Court Service (The Brown Book) combines detailed procedural guidance with authoritative, concise annotation in one volume.

Over 60 Procedural Guides lead you through the procedural steps of key applications to the court. Each guide is prepared by a leading civil litigation practitioner and is cross-referenced to the relevant CPR Rule, Practice Direction or Statute. The guides are grouped according to the following subject areas:

• Starting a Claim
• Costs
• Responding
• Enforcement
• Anti-Social Behaviour Orders
• Tenancies and Possession of Land
• Suspension of Possession Warrant
• General Procedure
• Miscellaneous
• Judgment
• Appeals and Judicial Review
• Track

• New CPR Part 36 - Offers to Settle - and Part 37 - Payments into Court - have, together with new supplementing practice directions PD36 and PD37, substituted the previous versions
• A consolidated practice direction PD8 - Alternative Procedure for Claims - has substituted the old PD8 and PD8B
• A new Section VI - Drinking Banning Orders under the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 - has been inserted into CPR Part 65
• A new Pre-Action Protocol on Construction and Engineering Disputes has substituted the previous version
• Extracts from the Mental Capacity Act 2005 together with introductory annotation have been included