Blackstone's Guide to the Civil Justice Reforms 2013

by Sime, Stuart; French, Derek

• ISBN13: 9780199685158
• ISBN10: 0199685150
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-05-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

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

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 joint Editor of Blackstone's Civil Practice, the author of A Practical Approach to Civil Procedure and co-author of A Practical Approach to ADR (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-editor of 13 editions of Blackstone's Civil Practice, all published by OUP.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Jackson Review
2. Transitional Provisions
3. Legal Aid
4. Funding
5. Case Management
6. Costs Management
7. Costs Capping Orders
8. Disclosure
9. Experts
10. Costs
11. Part 36 Offers
12. Alternative Dispute Resolution
13. Appeals
14. Damages for Personal Injuries, Suffering, Distress
15. Specialist Proceedings
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
Update 60 to Practice Directions
Appendix 5
Other Statutory Instruments