Blackstone's Guide to the Civil Justice Reforms 2013
1st Edition
Published on 28. March 2013
355 pages
978-0-19-150825-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Content
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- GLOSSARY
- A
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- D
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- R
- S
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- TABLE OF CASES
- TABLE OF STATUTES AND INTERNATIONAL LEGISLATION
- TABLE OF SECONDARY LEGISLATION, RULES, ORDERS, COURT GUIDES, AND CODES
- 1. INTRODUCTION: THE JACKSON REFORMS
- A. Aims and concerns
- B. Overall goal
- C. Key recommendations
- D. Consultation on implementing changes
- E. Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012
- F. Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2013
- G. Damages in tort claims etc
- H. Recommendations not implemented
- 2. TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
- A. Main commencement date
- B. LASPO commencement orders
- C. CFA and additional liabilities transitional provisions
- D. DBA transitional provisions
- E. CPR transitional provisions
- F. Damages for PSLA, suffering, and distress
- 3. LEGAL AID
- A. Introduction
- B. Abolition of the Legal Services Commission
- C. Civil legal aid
- D. Forms of civil legal services
- E. First charge
- F. Costs protection
- G. Legal aid costs orders
- 4. FUNDING
- A. Introduction
- B. SRA Code of Conduct
- C. LASPO 2012, part 2
- D. Conditional fee agreements and ATE insurance
- E. CFAs and LASPO 2012
- F. After-the-event insurance
- G. Membership organizations
- H. Before-the-event insurance
- I. Referral fees
- J. Damages-based agreements
- K. Third-party funding
- L. SLAS and CLAFs
- 5. CASE MANAGEMENT
- A. Introduction
- B. Final Report: case management recommendations
- C. Overriding objective
- D. Abolition of allocation questionnaires
- E. Track allocation
- F. Small claims track
- G. Removing party veto on track allocation
- H. Active case management
- I. Direct contact with the parties
- J. Docketing
- K. Case management conferences and pre-trial reviews
- L. Fast track
- M. Multi-track
- N. Witness statements
- O. Experts
- P. Enforcement of directions
- Q. Distribution of business
- R. Designated money claims
- S. Transfers
- 6. COSTS MANAGEMENT
- A. Introduction
- B. Need for costs management
- C. Final Report recommendations on costs management
- D. Essential features of costs management
- E. Jackson reforms: cases governed by costs management
- F. Filing costs budgets
- G. Costs management orders
- H. Costs relating to costs management
- I. Costs budgets and the costs of the proceedings
- 7. COSTS CAPPING ORDERS
- A. Introduction
- B. Procedure for applying for a costs capping order
- C. Requirements for making costs capping orders
- D. Discretion to make costs capping order
- E. Form of cost capping orders
- 8. DISCLOSURE
- A. Introduction
- B. Pre-Woolf approach to discovery
- C. Disclosure under the CPR pre-Jackson
- D. Train of inquiry documents under the CPR
- E. Controlling disclosure pre-Jackson
- F. Costs review approach to disclosure
- G. Final Report recommendations on disclosure
- H. Implementation
- I. Electronic disclosure
- J. Standard disclosure from 1 April 2013
- K. Menu option disclosure
- 9. EXPERTS
- A. Introduction
- B. Admissibility of expert evidence
- C. Final Report recommendations on experts
- D. Estimate of costs of expert evidence
- E. Focusing expert evidence
- F. Concurrent expert evidence
- 10. COSTS
- A. Introduction
- B. Final Report recommendations on costs
- C. Qualified one-way costs shifting (QOCS)
- D. QOCS from 1 April 2013
- E. Indemnity principle
- F. Proportionality
- G. Revision of costs provisions in the CPR
- H. Assessment and change of track
- I. Litigants in person
- J. Costs-only proceedings
- K. Detailed assessment
- L. Interest on costs
- M. Pro bono costs
- 11. PART 36 OFFERS
- A. Introduction
- B. Final Report and Part 36 offers
- C. Final Report recommendations on Part 36 offers
- D. Implementation
- E. LASPO 2012 and Part 36
- F. Reversal of Carver v BAA
- G. Claimants' Part 36 offers
- H. QOCS and Part 36 offers
- 12. ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION
- A. Introduction
- B. Final Report recommendations on ADR
- C. Court encouragement of ADR
- D. ADR Handbook
- 13. APPEALS
- A. Final Report recommendations on appeals
- B. Further review
- C. Appeal costs in appeals from no-costs jurisdictions
- D. Designated Court of Appeal judges
- E. Second appeals
- 14. DAMAGES FOR PERSONAL INJURIES, SUFFERING, AND DISTRESS
- A. Introduction
- B. Final Report recommendations on tort damages
- C. Increasing non-pecuniary general damages by 10 per cent
- D. Implementation
- E. Awards covered by the 10 per cent uplift
- F. Effect of the 10 per cent uplift
- G. Transitional arrangements
- 15. SPECIALIST PROCEEDINGS
- A. Intellectual property claims
- B. Defamation, breach of confidentiality, and privacy
- C. Clinical negligence
- D. Mesothelioma claims
- E. Insolvency proceedings
- F. Environmental law
- 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. Other Statutory Instruments
- INDEX
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- C
- D
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- F
- G
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