
Blackstone's Guide to the Civil Justice Reforms 2013
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- Cover
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- GLOSSARY
- A
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- D
- I
- J
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- Q
- R
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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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