Access to justice : draft civil proceedings rules / the Right Honourable the Lord Woolf, Master of the Rolls.

London : H.M.S.O, 1996.

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Woolf report.

Woolf's draft Civil Proceedings Rules.

Civil justice system in England and Wales : draft Civil Proceedings Rules.

Great Britain. -- Supreme Court -- Rules and practice.

Civil procedure -- Great Britain.

Justice, Administration of -- Great Britain.

PART 1. The overriding objective

PART 2. Application and interpretation of the rules

PART 3. Forms

PART 4. Practice directions and practice guides

PART 5. The court's case management powers

PART 6. Service of documents

PART 7. How to start proceeding—the claim

PART 8. Notice of intention to defend

PART 9. Defence and counterclaim

PART 10. General rules about applications for court orders

PART 11. Judgment for failure to respond

PART 12. Setting aside or varying judgment entered for failure to respond

PART 13. Judgment on admissions and following court orders

PART 14. Summary judgments

PART 15. Interim remedies

PART 16. Rules about particular kinds of interim remedies

PART 17. Claims connected to the main claim

PART 18. Addition and substitution of parties

PART 19. Changes to statements of case

PART 20. Representative parties

PART 21. Miscellaneous rules about parties

PART 22. Children and patients—requirement of next friend

PART 23. Miscellaneous rules about children and patients

PART 24. Case management—preliminary stage

PART 25. Case management

PART 26. Small claims

PART 27. Disclosure of documents

PART 28. Evidence

PART 29. Affidavits

PART 30. Hearsay evidence

PART 31. Miscellaneous rules about evidence

PART 32. Experts and assessors

PART 33. Court attendance by witnesses

PART 34. Depositions and early evidence appointments

PART 35. Requests for information

PART 36. Offers to settle and payments into court in support of them

PART 37. Miscellaneous rules about payments into court

PART 38. Discontinuance

PART 39. Trial.

Published with Lord Woolf's final report on Access to justice... Intended to replace the existing Rules of the Supreme Court 1965 and County Court rules 1981.

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212 pages ; 30 cm