Blackstone's Civil Practice 2015 (book and digital pack)

by Sime, Prof Stuart; French, Derek; Kay, The Rt Hon Sir Maurice

• ISBN13: 9780198726210
• ISBN10: 019872621X
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 2015-03-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Prof Stuart Sime, Course Director, Bar Professional Training Course, City University London,Derek French, Legal writer and editor

The Right Honourable Sir Maurice Kay (Editor-in-Chief) was formerly a Lord Justice of Appeal and Vice President of the Court of Appeal (Civil Division). He was a professor of law before being called to the bar in 1975 where he practiced until becoming a High Court Judge in 1995.


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 co-author of Blackstone's Guide to the Civil Justice Reforms 2013, the author of A Practical Approach to Civil Procedure, co-author of A Practical Approach to ADR and co-author of The Jackson ADR Handbook (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-author of Blackstone's Guide to the Civil Justice Reforms 2013, (all published by OUP).


Michael Walker (Editorial Advisory Board) is a District Judge, Wandsworth County Courts, presently on secondment to the Royal Courts of Justice.


Ivor Weintroub (Editorial Advisory Board) is a District Judge, Bournemouth County Court, and a Recorder of the Crown and County Courts.



Stuart Bridge (Editorial Advisory Board) is a Circuit Judge on the South Eastern Circuit and a Life Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Procedural checklists
A General matters
1. The overriding objective and sources of procedural law
2. Court organisation
3. Computing time
4. Remedies
B Funding litigation
5. Funding litigation
6. Conditional fee agreements
7. Community Legal Service
C Before commencing a claim
8. Pre-action protocols
9. Notices before action
D Commencement
10. Limitation
11. Where to start proceedings
12. Issuing proceedings
13. Part 8 claims
14. Joinder and parties
15. Filing and service
16. Service outside the jurisdiction
E Responding to a Claim
17. Admitting the claim and requesting time to pay
18. Acknowledging service and filing a defence
19. Disputing the court's jurisdiction
20. Default judgment
F Solicitors
21. Acting by a solicitor
22. Change of solicitor
G Statements of case
23. Claim form
24. Particulars of claim
25. Schedule of loss and damage
26. Defending a claim
27. Reply and subsequent statements of case
28. Counterclaims
29. Part 20 claims
30. Further information
31. Amendments to statements of case
H Interim applications
32. Applications and interim orders
33. Striking out
34. Summary judgment
35. Possession claims against trespassers
36. Interim payments
37. Interim injunctions
38. Freezing injunctions
39. Search orders
40. Interim delivery up of goods
41. Inspection of property
I Case management
42. Case management
43. Costs Management
44. Costs Capping and Costs Protection
45. Small claims
46. Fast track
47. Multi-track
48. Non-compliance, sanctions and relief
J Evidence
49. General law of evidence
50. Disclosure
51. Witness statements
52. Affidavits
53. Hearsay evidence
54. Experts and assessors
K Discontinuance and stays
55. Discontinuance
56. Stays
L Trial
57. Witness summonses
58. Giving evidence without attending court
59. Trial bundles
60. Trial by jury
61. Trial
62. Non-attendance
63. Judgments and orders
64. Interest
M Costs
65. Solicitor and own client costs
66. Part 36 offers and payments
67. Security for costs
68. Costs orders
69. Qualified One-way costs shifting
70. Fixed costs etc.
71. Assessment of costs
N Alternative dispute resolution
72. Arbitration claims
73. Alternative dispute resolution
O Appeals, judicial review and EC references
74. The appeals system
75. Hearing of appeals
76. Appeals to the House of Lords
77. Judicial review
78. References to the Court of Justice of the European Union
P Enforcement
79. Enforcement
80. Enforcement of foreign judgments
81. Committal and sequestration
Q Insolvency Proceedings and Company Matters
82. Winding up and administration of registered companies
83. Bankruptcy
84. Insolvency applications and appeals
85. Applications under the Companies Act and Related Legislation
86. Director Disqualification
R Landlord and tenant and possession proceedings
87. Mortgage Possessions
S Anti-social behaviour and harassment
88. Anti-social behaviour and harassment
T Sale of goods and consumer credit
89. Sale of goods
90. Unfair contract terms
U Human rights and civil procedure
91. Human rights and civil procedure
V Terminology
92. Changes in terminology made by the CPR
Appendices
Appendix 1 Civil Procedure Rules 1998 and practice directions
Appendix 2 Pre-action protocols
Appendix 3 Court fees orders
Appendix 4 Selected legislation