A Model Civil Procedure Code for England and Wales

by Sorabji, John

• ISBN13: 9780192848680
• ISBN10: 0192848682
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780192664860
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2025-01-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography

John Sorabji is Associate Professor of Law at University College London and a member of the Civil Justice Council. He has previously served as the Deputy Private Secretary to HM King Charles III and, separately, as the Principal Legal Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls. He has also been a visiting professor at Université Pantheon-Assas. He is the author of many titles including English Civil Justice after Woolf and Jackson: A Critical Analysis (CUP, 2014), a contributing editor and author of Foskett on Compromise (Sweet & Maxwell, 2015, 2020 and 2024), Civil Litigation in a Comparative Context (West Academic Press, 2nd edition, 2017), Zuckerman on Civil Procedure (Sweet & Maxwell, 2021), and the ELI-UNIDROIT Model European Rules of Civil Procedure (OUP, 2021). He is also a General Editor of Civil Procedure (The White Book) (Sweet & Maxwell, 2024).

Table of Contents

I: PRELIMINARY TO THE CODEGOVERNANCE OF THE CIVIL DISPUTE RESOLUTION SYSTEMII: A MODEL CIVIL PROCEDURE CODE1. GENERAL PRINCIPLES2. CIVIL COURT ADMINISTRATION3. COSTS4. FUNDING5. PRE-ACTION DISPUTE MANAGEMENT6. PARTIES7. JURISDICTION, SCOPE, AND TERMINATION8. CASE STATEMENTS9. AMENDMENT10. SERVICE11. DISPUTE MANAGEMENT12. ACCESS TO EVIDENCE AND PRIVILEGES13. PROVISIONAL MEASURES14. HEARINGS15. JUDGMENTS AND ORDERS16. ENFORCEMENT17. APPEALS