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A practical approach to effective litigation / Susan Blake.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: Eighth editionDescription: xlix, 578 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0198715943
  • 9780198715948
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 347.410504 23
LOC classification:
  • KD485 .B56 2015
Contents:
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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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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