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Civil Evidence for Practitioners
ISBN: 9781908013156
Author:Professor Peter Hibbert
The book provides support for the practitioner in the following ways:
Explains all the practical ‘do’s and don’ts’of civil evidence
Teaches effective case analysis techniques
Explores the nature of the duty to preserve evidence pre-action and pre-trial
Demonstrates how evidence affects the drafting of pleadings
Explains the nature of digital evidence
Shows how to project manage the process of e-disclosure and costs estimates for disclosure
Looks at offensive and defensive strategies in the context of disclosure
Shows how to use evidence to prepare effective witness statements
Explains the use of expert evidence in pre-action, pre-trial and trial contexts
Explains how to use evidence persuasively in drafting skeleton arguments
Shows how to prepare cases properly for trial
Deals with the latest case law in civil evidence
Major new chapter on e-disclosure – dealing with the project management of the disclosure of electronically stored information, including identification of sources of digital evidence, preservation, collection and review of data, together with templates for the preparation of cost estimates for the e-disclosure process.
Brand new chapter on offensive and defensive strategies – this chapter examines the tactics for making and resisting pre-action and interim applications for disclosure to maximum advantage (in the context of disclosure applications).
Post-April 2013 changes to the Civil Procedure Rules – including the new provisions for relief from sanctions and the Court of Appeal’s new tougher, structured approach to such applications in Mitchell v MGN Ltd [2013] EWCA Civ 1537.
The Supreme Court’s decisions in – Rugby Football Union v Viagogo Ltd [2012] UKSC 55 (Norwich Pharmacal orders); and R. (Prudential) v Special Commissioner for Income Tax[2013] UKSC 1 (legal professional privilege).
The book also covers recent developments arising from:
Re Atrium Training Services Ltd [2013] EWHC 2882 (Ch) (on how to determine whether a party is in breach of an “unless” disclosure order).
Smith v Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change [2013] EWCA Civ 1585 (pre-action disclosure).
Interflora Inc v Marks & Spencer Plc [2013] EWHC 936 (on what constitutes expert evidence for the purposes of CPR Part 35).
Interflora Inc v Marks & Spencer Plc [2013] EWCA Civ 319 (“Interflora 2”) (on the use of consumer survey evidence).
Boyd v Incommunities Ltd [2013] EWCA Civ 756 and JW Spear & Sons Ltd v Zynga Inc [2013] EWHC 3348 (Ch) (on the use of anonymous hearsay statements).
1. Effective Case Analysis & Pre-Action Investigation
2. Negotiation & Mediation – The Without Prejudice Rule
3. Pleadings – Evidential Implications
4. Disclosure I: Electronic Disclosure
5. Disclosure II: Disclosure & Privilege
6. Disclosure III: Offensive & Defensive Strategies
7. Interim Applications – Skeleton Arguments & Supporting Evidence
8. Expert Evidence & the Evidential Directions for Trial
9. Preparations for Trial: Drafting Witness Statements for Exchange
10. Preparations for Trial: the Civil Evidence Act 1995
11. Preparations for Trial: Notices to Admit and to Prove
12. Preparations for Trial: Preparing and Agreeing Bundles of Documents
13. Preparations for Trial: Witness Summonses & Video Link Procedures
14. Preparations for Trial: Effective Management of the Evidence
Author: Professor Peter R. Hibbert
Director, Centre for Research into Civil Evidence, Birmingham, Professor at the College (now University) of Law, formerly Professor of Legal Practice, Head of Professional Development, De Montfort University, Leicester
“Mr. Hibbert has succeeded triumphantly…”
Iain Goldrein QC, New law Journal
“I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to be a shrewd litigation lawyer. There are ideas and solutions for the problems of evidence which arise in almost every litigator's workload and you will be a better litigator having read it.”
James Stuart, Construction Law Journal
“This is an excellent text book which admirably covers the wide area of civil evidence and which achieves the stated aims of the author”
Lisa Boyd, Journal of Personal Injury Law