Civil Litigation

This is a "how to" guide to all types of litigation in the Queen's Bench Division and the county court, setting out the skills and strategies needed in the professional conduct of these cases. This edition takes both the practitioner and student through all the stages of an action, from the preliminary stages of litigation to service of documents, drafting pleadings, payments into court, trial and enforcement of judgments. Key changes in this edition relate to topics of increasing importance, such as: legal aid which covers franchising; a section on drafting witness statements; pre-trial remedies, covering the recent substantial Practice Direction on Marevas and Anton Piller Orders; discovery and how to prevent "cards on the table" litigation being swamped by "boxes on the floor" discovery; important developments in automatic directions and automatic striking out; and developments to costs such as new taxation procedures, prescribed rates in legal aid cases, conditional fee agreements and wasted costs orders.
 
This is a "how to" guide to all types of litigation in the Queen's Bench Division and the county court, setting out the skills and strategies needed in the professional conduct of these cases. This edition takes both the practitioner and student through all the stages of an action, from the preliminary stages of litigation to service of documents, drafting pleadings, payments into court, trial and enforcement of judgments. Key changes in this edition relate to topics of increasing importance, such as: legal aid which covers franchising; a section on drafting witness statements; pre-trial remedies, covering the recent substantial Practice Direction on Marevas and Anton Piller Orders; discovery and how to prevent "cards on the table" litigation being swamped by "boxes on the floor" discovery; important developments in automatic directions and automatic striking out; and developments to costs such as new taxation procedures, prescribed rates in legal aid cases, conditional fee agreements and wasted costs orders.