TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blake,Susan H.
TI  - A practical approach to effective litigation
SN  - 0198715943
AV  - KD485 .B56 2015
U1  - 347.410504 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Attorney and client
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Civil procedure
KW  - Trial practice
KW  - Legal composition
KW  - Legal briefs
KW  - Pleading
N1  - 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
ER  -