Multi-party actions / by Christopher Hodges.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Parties to actions.

Joinder of actions -- Great Britain.

Class actions (Civil procedure) -- Great Britain.

I. Introductory: 1. Introduction: the phenomenon of multi-party actions in England and Wales

II. Managing group litigation: 2. Basic principles and issues

3. Initiation

4. Investigating, commencing, and pleading claims

5. Initial management of the group

6. Advertising

7. Further management issues

8. Costs

9. Other procedural mechanisms; III. Funding multi-party actions: 10. Legal expenses insurance

11. Conditional fee arrangements

12. Public funding

IV. Multi-party rules in other jurisdictions: 13. Class actions: an American perspective

14. Class actions in the common law provinces of Canada

15. Multi-party actions in Australia

V. Case studies: 16. Introduction to case studies

17. Pertussis vaccine litigation

18. Opren litigation

19. HIV haemophilia litigation litigation

20. Gravigard IUD

21. Myodil litigation

22. Benzodiazepine litigation

23. Lloyd's litigation

24. Reay v BNFL

Hope v BNFL

25. Manufacturing operations: mixed claims B & ors v X Co

D & ors v X Co

26. Docklands nuisance class actions

27. Lockton litigation

28. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (human growth hormone) litigation

29. British Coal: vibration white finger litigation

30. British Coal: respiratory disease litigation

31. Norplant litigation

32. Tobacco litigation: 1992-1999

Appendices.

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