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- The first comprehensive commentary on the wide-ranging reforms following Sir Rupert Jackson's Review of Civil Litigation Costs
- With a foreword from Mr Justice Ramsey who has been instrumental in the implementation of the reforms
- Includes coverage of why the reforms are being made, changes to the Rules and Practice Directions, and what problems may arise, giving full details of transitional provisions and exceptions
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- Provides clear guidance on damages based agreements (DBAs), conditional fee agreements (CFAs), and third party funding
- Contains relevant provisions of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012; sections of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990; the amended Civil Procedure Rules; and relevant Statutory Instruments for quick reference
The first practical guide to the procedural reforms due to be implemented in April 2013, this essential text explains the wide-ranging recommendations made by Sir Rupert Jackson in his Review of Civil Litigation Costs (MoJ, 2009) dealing with the costs of civil litigation.
These changes have been described by Law Society president Lucy Scott-Moncrieff as representing 'the most significant change to the civil justice system since the Woolf reforms in 1999'. Following the recommendations in the Review, the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 was passed and other changes will be implemented through changes to the Civil Procedure Rules and Practice Directions.
This is a clear and practical commentary on these extensive reforms, providing valuable guidance and detail on how the changes will operate in practice. It includes useful tables detailing the changes for ease of access and well as selected appendices with the relevant material practitioners will need to refer to.
Readership: All civil practitioners, both solicitors and barristers, and also legal executives and non-qualified fee earners.
1: Introduction: Jackson Review
2: Transitional Provisions
3: Legal Aid
4: Funding
5: Case Management
6: Costs Management
7: Costs Capping Orders
8: Disclosure
9: Experts
10: Costs
11: Part 36 Offers
12: Alternative Dispute Resolution
13: Appeals
14: Damages for Personal Injuries, Suffering, Distress
15: Specialist Proceedings
Appendix 1
Relevant provisions of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012
Appendix 2
Courts and Legal Services Act 1990, Sections 58 to 58C
Appendix 3
Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2013
Appendix 4
Update 60 to Practice Directions
Appendix 5
Other Statutory Instruments
Stuart Sime, Course Director, Bar Professional Training Course, City University London, and Derek French, Legal writer and editor
Professor Stuart Sime is the course director of the full-time Bar professional training course at the City Law School, where he teaches civil litigation, commercial, and company law. He was a practising barrister until 2005. In his early career he spent a number of years in the litigation department of the Treasury Solicitor's Office. He is joint Editor of Blackstone's Civil Practice, the author of A Practical Approach to Civil Procedure and co-author of A Practical Approach to ADR (all published by OUP).
Derek French is principal author of 29 editions of Mayson, French and Ryan on Company Law, author of two editions of Applications to Wind Up Companies and one of Model Articles of Association for Companies, editor of 16 editions of Blackstone's Statutes on Company Law and co-editor of 13 editions of Blackstone's Civil Practice, all published by OUP.
"This Guide is exactly what the profession requires. The authors have analysed the changes in the Act, the secondary legislation and the Civil Procedure Rules in a clear and systematic way, making it easy to understand the changes and their impact." - Vivien Ramsey, Royal Courts of Justice
