* O'Hare & Browne: Civil Litigation 22nd ed

NOT YET PUBLISHED

O’Hare & Browne: Civil Litigation

provides a practical, comprehensive and detailed guide covering all areas of civil litigation in the High Court and County Court. It guides you through the procedure involved in any civil matter and covers all stages of litigation in a logical sequence from pre-action to enforcement and appeals. Expert authors provide tactical and strategic advice, examples, tips and solutions, and it cross-refers to the Civil Procedure Rules and the White Book Service

The 22nd edition covers the many important CPR changes made, and more than one hundred procedure cases reported since the last edition. The major updates include:

• A new section on housing disrepair claims
• New guidance as to costs budgeting and as to guideline hourly rates on budgeting
• The Supreme Court’s restatement as to the law relating to claims expressed in a foreign currency (Federal Republic of Nigeria v Process & Industrial Developments Ltd [2026] A.C. 50)
• Expanded coverage of Practice Direction 57AD (concerning disclosure in the Business & Property Division)
• New case law on applications to permit reliance upon surveillance evidence
• A new section on particular types of offers to settle
• What should happen if a witness has to give evidence for more than a day or half-day
• Costs consequences if a defence of fundamental dishonesty fails
• Avoiding pitfalls when serving court documents
• Non-party costs orders against credit hire companies
• New guidance on making an application to dispute the court's jurisdiction
• Case management in the Supreme Court (which is now conducted online)

table of content

1. The Civil Court System in Outline

 

2. Personal Injury Cases

 

3. Acting for a new claimant client

 

4. Parties to Actions

 

5. Steps to be taken before commencing court proceedings

 

6. Limitation of Actions

 

7. Procedure under the RTA and EL/PL Protocols

 

8. Service of Documents in court proceedings

 

9. Proceedings Under Pt 7 and Pt 8

 

10. Drafting Statements of Case

 

11. Interim Applications

 

12. Default Judgment

 

13. Admissions and Requests for Time to Pay

 

14. Disposal Hearings

 

15. Counterclaims and Other Additional Claims (Pt 20)

 

16. Summary Judgment

 

17. The Small Claims Track (Pt 27)

 

18. The Fast Track (Pt 28)

 

19. The Intermediate Track (Pt 28)

 

20. The Multi-Track (Pt 29)

 

21. Costs budgeting in most multi-track claims

 

22. Cases not Governed by Standard Track Allocation

 

23. Cases With a Foreign Element

 

24. Interim Injunctions

 

25. Interim Payments

 

26. Security for Costs

 

27. Experts

 

28. Disclosure and Inspection

 

29. Evidence

 

30. Judicial Case Management: General Points

 

31. Judicial Case Management: Particular Points

 

32. Discontinuance

 

33. Change of Solicitors

 

34. Part 36 Offers to Settle

 

35. Termination of an Action by Consent

 

36. Drafting Witness Statements, Affidavits and Skeleton Arguments

 

37. Preparations for Trial

 

38. Trial

 

39. Entitlement to costs

 

40. Fixed costs

 

41. Summary Assessment

 

42. Detailed Assessment of costs

 

43. Costs: Special Cases

 

44. Interest

 

45. Enforcement of Money Judgments

 

46. Enforcement of Other Judgments

 

47. Insolvency

 

48. Applications to Set Aside or Vary Orders

 

49. Appeals up to the Court of Appeal

 

50. Appeals to the UK Supreme Court