English civil procedure : fundamentals of the new civil justice system / by Neil Andrews.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Civil procedure -- Great Britain.

Civil procedure.

I. Fundamentals : 1. Sources and scope of civil procedure

2. Main pillars of the Woolf reforms

3. Principles in general

4. Guarantees concerning the court's composition

5. Guarantees concerning the court's conduct

6. Leading procedural principles

7. Article 6 (1) and human rights

8. The wider framework of civil justice

9. Access to justice

II. Commencement: 10. Commencement, service and pleadings

11. Parties, set-off, part 20 claims (including counterclaims) and contribution

12. Limitation of actions

III. Judicial control of the process

13. Case-management and judicial discretion

14. Sanctions against procedural non-compliance

15. Aviodance of excessive delay

16. Abuse of process

IV. Protective and interim relief : 17. Protective relief : freezing injunctions and search orders

18. Interim relief

V. Accelerated or abbreviated justice : 19. Default judgments

20. Summary judgment

21. Striking out claims or defences

22. The small claims jurisdiction

VI. Settlement : 23. The settlement process

24. Part 36 payments and offers to settle

25. Settlement negotiations and privilege : without prejudice communications and conciliation privlege

VII. : Access to information : disclosure and evidence : 26. Disclosure

27. Legal professional privilege

28. Inadvertent disclosure of privileged material

29. Privilege against self-incrimination

30. Public interest immunity

31. Evidence in general

32. Expert evidence

33. Foreign aspects of evidence

VIII. Trial and costs : 34. Trial

35. Conditional fees and funding

36. Costs : general features

37. Special costs orders : security for costs, non- party costs orders, and wasted costs

IX. Post-judgment : appeals enforcement and finality : 38. Appeals

39. Enforcement

40. Finality in civil proceedings : claim and issue preclusion (Res Judicata) and related doctrines

X. Specific procedures : 41. Multi-party proceedings

42. Applications for judicial review

43. Transnational civil procedure.

Includes select bibliography and index.

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