Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Contents
- Table of Cases
- Table of Statutes
- Table of Statutory Instruments
- PART I INTRODUCTION TO THE FORMS OF CIVIL JUSTICE
- PART II COMMENCEMENT OF COURT PROCEEDINGS AND PREPARATION FOR TRIAL
- PART III END-GAME: TRIAL, APPEAL, FINALITY AND ENFORCEMENT
- PART IV COSTS AND FINANCING OF LITIGATION
- PART V SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS
- PART VI PRINCIPLES OF CIVIL LITIGATION
- PART VII THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT
- Select Bibliography
- Index to Volumes I and II
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Contents
- Table of Cases
- Table of Statutes
- Table of Statutory Instruments
- PART I INTRODUCTION TO THE FORMS OF CIVIL JUSTICE
- PART II COMMENCEMENT OF COURT PROCEEDINGS AND PREPARATION FOR TRIAL
- PART III END-GAME: TRIAL, APPEAL, FINALITY AND ENFORCEMENT
- PART IV COSTS AND FINANCING OF LITIGATION
- PART V SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS
- PART VI PRINCIPLES OF CIVIL LITIGATION
- PART VII THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT
- Select Bibliography
- Index to Volumes I and II
Summary
Following Sir Rupert Jackson's report on the costs regime (2010), and the Government's consultation (2010) and final statement (2011), various procedural changes, notably affecting costs, were introduced on 1 April 2013. These are examined at relevant points in this volume.
One has no right to expect a legal subject to be as much fun as Civil Justice. I hope that readers in the United Kingdom and elsewhere who share this enthusiasm will find this a convenient (at times perhaps stimulating, even provocative) analysis of the main features of English civil proceedings and of mediation and arbitration.
This book is on Civil Processes and on Civil Justice. Volume I is a study of civil procedure. Volume II concerns mediation and arbitration. But Volumes I and II are complementary. Cross-referencing between these volumes and comparison of fundamental principles are intended to ensure that the wider picture is kept in view.
The author's first book on civil procedure was an attempt to place the pre- CPR (1998) system of civil procedure within the framework of principles: Principles of Civil Procedure (1994). This sandcastle stood for one year before, in 1995, Lord Woolf wrote his first report on the proposed dismantling of that pre- CPR system. His reports helped to produce the Civil Procedure Rules (1998), which took effect in April 1999. After this blow to the midriff, the author eventually re-gathered breath and returned to the task of trying to state civil procedure from the perspective of (evolving) principles in English Civil Procedure (Oxford University Press, 2003). Modern trends within this vast subject have required me to present a fresh treatment but on a much wider canvas, encompassing not just English civil proceedings, but mediation and arbitration. And so, after a gap of ten years, I am pleased to present this new work.
In legal analysis, numbers matter, or at least they can assist exposition (although, some ancient civilian numberings have been dismissed as artificial). I am aware that numbered groupings have become a conspicuous feature of these two volumes. Such classification is not only helpful in the exposition of complex material: it can also stimulate debate on the fundamentals of the subject.
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- Andrews on Civil ProcessesCourt Proceedings, pp. vii - xPublisher: IntersentiaPrint publication year: 2013