TY - BOOK AU - Sime,Stuart AU - French,Derek TI - Blackstone's Guide to the Civil Justice Reforms 2013 T2 - Blackstone's Guides SN - 9780191508257 AV - KD7566 .S564 2013 U1 - 347.4205 PY - 2013/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press, Incorporated KW - Costs (Law)-England KW - Costs (Law)-Wales KW - Civil procedure-England-Costs KW - Civil procedure-Wales-Costs KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- GLOSSARY -- A -- C -- D -- I -- J -- M -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- TABLE OF CASES -- TABLE OF STATUTES AND INTERNATIONAL LEGISLATION -- TABLE OF SECONDARY LEGISLATION, RULES, ORDERS, COURT GUIDES, AND CODES -- 1. INTRODUCTION: THE JACKSON REFORMS -- A. Aims and concerns -- B. Overall goal -- C. Key recommendations -- D. Consultation on implementing changes -- E. Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 -- F. Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2013 -- G. Damages in tort claims etc -- H. Recommendations not implemented -- 2. TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS -- A. Main commencement date -- B. LASPO commencement orders -- C. CFA and additional liabilities transitional provisions -- D. DBA transitional provisions -- E. CPR transitional provisions -- F. Damages for PSLA, suffering, and distress -- 3. LEGAL AID -- A. Introduction -- B. Abolition of the Legal Services Commission -- C. Civil legal aid -- D. Forms of civil legal services -- E. First charge -- F. Costs protection -- G. Legal aid costs orders -- 4. FUNDING -- A. Introduction -- B. SRA Code of Conduct -- C. LASPO 2012, part 2 -- D. Conditional fee agreements and ATE insurance -- E. CFAs and LASPO 2012 -- F. After-the-event insurance -- G. Membership organizations -- H. Before-the-event insurance -- I. Referral fees -- J. Damages-based agreements -- K. Third-party funding -- L. SLAS and CLAFs -- 5. CASE MANAGEMENT -- A. Introduction -- B. Final Report: case management recommendations -- C. Overriding objective -- D. Abolition of allocation questionnaires -- E. Track allocation -- F. Small claims track -- G. Removing party veto on track allocation -- H. Active case management -- I. Direct contact with the parties -- J. Docketing -- K. Case management conferences and pre-trial reviews -- L. Fast track -- M. Multi-track; N. Witness statements -- O. Experts -- P. Enforcement of directions -- Q. Distribution of business -- R. Designated money claims -- S. Transfers -- 6. COSTS MANAGEMENT -- A. Introduction -- B. Need for costs management -- C. Final Report recommendations on costs management -- D. Essential features of costs management -- E. Jackson reforms: cases governed by costs management -- F. Filing costs budgets -- G. Costs management orders -- H. Costs relating to costs management -- I. Costs budgets and the costs of the proceedings -- 7. COSTS CAPPING ORDERS -- A. Introduction -- B. Procedure for applying for a costs capping order -- C. Requirements for making costs capping orders -- D. Discretion to make costs capping order -- E. Form of cost capping orders -- 8. DISCLOSURE -- A. Introduction -- B. Pre-Woolf approach to discovery -- C. Disclosure under the CPR pre-Jackson -- D. Train of inquiry documents under the CPR -- E. Controlling disclosure pre-Jackson -- F. Costs review approach to disclosure -- G. Final Report recommendations on disclosure -- H. Implementation -- I. Electronic disclosure -- J. Standard disclosure from 1 April 2013 -- K. Menu option disclosure -- 9. EXPERTS -- A. Introduction -- B. Admissibility of expert evidence -- C. Final Report recommendations on experts -- D. Estimate of costs of expert evidence -- E. Focusing expert evidence -- F. Concurrent expert evidence -- 10. COSTS -- A. Introduction -- B. Final Report recommendations on costs -- C. Qualified one-way costs shifting (QOCS) -- D. QOCS from 1 April 2013 -- E. Indemnity principle -- F. Proportionality -- G. Revision of costs provisions in the CPR -- H. Assessment and change of track -- I. Litigants in person -- J. Costs-only proceedings -- K. Detailed assessment -- L. Interest on costs -- M. Pro bono costs -- 11. PART 36 OFFERS -- A. Introduction; B. Final Report and Part 36 offers -- C. Final Report recommendations on Part 36 offers -- D. Implementation -- E. LASPO 2012 and Part 36 -- F. Reversal of Carver v BAA -- G. Claimants' Part 36 offers -- H. QOCS and Part 36 offers -- 12. ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION -- A. Introduction -- B. Final Report recommendations on ADR -- C. Court encouragement of ADR -- D. ADR Handbook -- 13. APPEALS -- A. Final Report recommendations on appeals -- B. Further review -- C. Appeal costs in appeals from no-costs jurisdictions -- D. Designated Court of Appeal judges -- E. Second appeals -- 14. DAMAGES FOR PERSONAL INJURIES, SUFFERING, AND DISTRESS -- A. Introduction -- B. Final Report recommendations on tort damages -- C. Increasing non-pecuniary general damages by 10 per cent -- D. Implementation -- E. Awards covered by the 10 per cent uplift -- F. Effect of the 10 per cent uplift -- G. Transitional arrangements -- 15. SPECIALIST PROCEEDINGS -- A. Intellectual property claims -- B. Defamation, breach of confidentiality, and privacy -- C. Clinical negligence -- D. Mesothelioma claims -- E. Insolvency proceedings -- F. Environmental law -- APPENDIX 1. Relevant provisions of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 -- APPENDIX 2. Courts and Legal Services Act 1990, sections 58 to 58C -- APPENDIX 3. Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2013 -- APPENDIX 4. Other Statutory Instruments -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W N2 - The only practical guide to the procedural reforms due to be implemented in April 2013 which give effect to the wide-ranging recommendations made by Sir Rupert Jackson in his Review of Civil Litigation Costs (MoJ, 2009) dealing with the costs of civil litigation UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5799293 ER -