A practical approach to effective litigation / Susan Blake.
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: Eighth editionDescription: xlix, 578 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0198715943
- 9780198715948
- 347.410504 23
- KD485 .B56 2015
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347.41017 MOE Practical legal aid / | 347.41035 FRO From House of Lords to Supreme Court : judges, jurists and the process of judging / | 347.410504 BLA A practical approach to effective litigation / | 347.410504 BLA A practical approach to effective litigation / | 347.410504 MAU Lawyering skills and the legal process / | 347.410504 NAP The technique of persuasion / | 347.4105041 DAV Solicitors' negligence and liability / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The growing focus on 'effective' litigation -- 2. An overview of the litigation process -- 3. Dispute management, project management, and risk management -- 4. ADR, settlement, and Part 36 offers -- 5. Legal practitioners and the developing professional context -- 6. Financing litigation -- 7. Defining objectives, advising a client, and taking instructions -- 8. Establishing and analysing facts -- 9. Making best use of law to define issues -- 10. Legal letters and opinions -- 11. Making strategic use of the pre-action stage -- 12. Drafting statements of case -- 13. Joining the right parties -- 14. Pursuing appropriate remedies -- 15. Issuing proceedings, track allocation, and directions -- 16. Defending an action -- 17. Active case management and the use of sanctions -- 18. Costs management and budgeting -- 19. Evidence and disclosure -- 20. Witness statements -- 21. The potential roles of experts -- 22. Procedural rules as practical tools -- 23. Preparing a case for trial and drafting skeleton arguments -- 24. Presenting a case in court -- 25. Costs orders and assessment -- 26. Challenging a judgment -- 27. Enforcing a judgment.
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