Subjects:

Practice & Procedure

Contents:

Introduction

Sources of Civil Procedure: Structure Jurisdiction

Limitations of Actions

Funding Litigation

Pre-Action Protocols

Judicial cases Management: The Overriding Objective

Parties To and Title of Proceedings

Starting a Claim

Responding to Claim

Service of Documents

Service out of Jurisdiction

Statements of Case

Part 20 Claims

Adding or Substituting a Party

Part 8 Claims

Judicial Case Management: Allocation

The Small Claims Track

The Fast Track

The Multi-Track

Making Applications for Court Orders

Interim Remedies

Judgment in Default

Summary Judgment

Striking Out

Offers to Settle and Payments into Court

Provisional Damages

Special Rules for Children and Patients

Change of Solicitor

Disclosure of Documents

Experts and Assessors

Evidence

Hearings

Judgements and Orders

Costs

Discontinuance

Appeals

Judicial Review

The Human Rights Act 1998

Enforcement of Judgments and Orders

Transitional Arrangements.

The second edition of this practical and clearly written textbook has been thoroughly updated to cover the changes to the CPR since the first edition was published. The substance of the most important rules, practice directions and pre-action protocols are analysed in detail and the reader is given a step by step guide to bringing litigation in the civil courts from the requirements for pre-action behaviour to the enforcement of judgments.

The new edition has been substantially expanded to include an analysis of important guideline cases which give a further insight into the operation of the rules in practice. Civil Procedure provides an invaluable guide both to students of civil procedure at all levels as well as practitioners who regularly grapple with the Civil Procedure Rules 1998.