Civil Litigation 2018/2019 (CLP Legal Practice Guides)

Civil Litigation is a thorough, up to date and practical introduction to the Civil Procedure Rules and the principles and tactics used in pursuing a civil case. The civil process has been divided into five stages, starting with pre-action considerations, moving on to examine the issue and service of proceedings, before considering interim matters, trial and enforcement. The aim of the book is to equip readers with the knowledge necessary to enable them successfully to navigate their way through these stages. The text has a user-friendly structure and includes checklists and specimen documents which build up into a case study forming a useful overview of the civil litigation process. The appendices incorporate helpful templates, flow diagrams, case study documents and copies of the more common court forms used in civil litigation. This edition incorporates developments in alternative dispute resolution, the Business and Property Courts, service of proceedings, setting aside a default judgment, costs budgets and discussion reports, redaction under standard disclosure, security for costs, Part 36 offers and awards, skeleton arguments, trial bundles and the new Precedent S electronic bill of costs. New cases include Barton v Wright Hassall LLP (2018) (service); Redbourn Group Ltd v Fairgate Development Ltd (2017) (setting aside a default judgment); Findcharm Ltd v Churchill Group Ltd (2017) and JSC Mezhdunarodniy Promyshlenniy Bank v Pugachev (2017) (costs budgeting); Premier Motorauctions Ltd v PWC LLP (2017) (security for costs); Ennis Property Finance Ltd v Thompson (2017) (standard disclosure); Lokhova v Longmuir (2017), Jordan v MGN Ltd (2017), Mohammed v Home Office (2017) and OMV Petrom SA v Glencore International AG (2017) (Part 36 offers); and R (on the application of Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd) v Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (2017) (skeleton arguments and trial bundles).