Personal Injury Pleadings 5th ed

Personal Injury Pleadings supplies everything needed for preparing pleadings in personal injury claims. It includes a comprehensive set of sample pleadings together with detailed advice on their correct drafting, ensuring practitioners prepare statements of case that are properly constructed and include all of the necessary elements.

This new edition has been extensively updated to incorporate references to recent case law and reflects all relevant changes to CPR.

• Covers a wide variety of areas of PI practice, from general topics such as occupiers' liability and motorists’ liability to specific areas such as liabilities for sports injuries and injuries by animals
• Deals with each area in a separate chapter, ensuring the text is easy to consult
• Each chapter contains commentary and guidance on drafting, plus up-to-date case law, relevant legislation and sample pleadings
• Explains how case law applies to specific types of pleadings
• Includes the relevant Rules, Protocols and Practice Directions
• Lays out all pleadings in modern English in line with the CPR
• Provides a selection of defences, paired with specific pleadings, ensuring the work is relevant to both claimant and defendant practitioners
• Accompanied by a CD-ROM containing the pleadings in Word format for easy drafting
• Features additional material on the CD including Ogden tables, MIB Agreements and CPR