The reform of civil justice / by Stephen Clark and The Right Hon. Sir Rupert Jackson MA,

London: Sweet and Maxwell 2018.

2nd edition

202234

Costs (Law) -- Great Britain.

Civil procedure -- Great Britain.

Part 1: Civil justice reform in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Para.

1. The role of civil justice, the importance of procedure and controlling costs

2. A brief history of civil justice reform

3. Lord Woolf's reforms

Part 2: The review of civil litigation costs 2009: Proposals and implementation

4. The civil litigation costs review in 2009 and proposals for reform

5. The organising principle: proportionality

6. Implementation

Part 3: Funding

7. Conditional fee agreements, after-the-event insurance and increased damages

8. Damages-based agreements

9. Other forms of funding

Part 4: Consensual settlement

10. Pre-action protocols

11. Alternative dispute resolution

12. Part 36 offers

Part 5: The management of litigation

13 Case management and effective use of information technology

14. Disclosure

15. Factual and expert evidence

16. Costs management

17. Appeals

Part 6: Particular categories of litigation

18. Qualiied one-way costs shifting in personal injury litigation and possibly other areas

19. Referral fees in personal injury litigation

20. Intellectual property, small businesses, defamation/privacy, judicial review, clinical negligence, and other specialist areas

Part 7: Quantifying costs

21. Fixed recoverable costs

22. Detailed assessment

23. Summary assessment

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780414067035

xxviii, 303 pages; 24 cm