Kemp & Kemp: Personal Injury Law, Practice and Procedure - 9780421905108

Product Description

Offering comprehensive guidance on the best way to proceed with a personal injury case, Personal Injury Law, Practice and Procedure:

Provides practical guidance on the tactics and strategies that you should adopt
Covers all types of cases, including fatal accidents, industrial accidents, road traffic accidents, occupational health and clinical negligence, so you can take on even unfamiliar and complex cases with confidence
Provides a balanced approach, considering both claimant and defendant viewpoints
Explains funding options including private funding, CFAs, Legal Aid, Union, BTE and ATE
Covers limitation, capacity to litigate, restoring companies to the register, and other tricky issues
Gives detailed guidance on the Civil Procedure Rules from Rule 1 (the Overriding Objective) to Rule 52 (Appeals) and beyond
Explains management of awards, including lump sums, periodical payment orders, and PI trusts
Sets out the procedure in chronological order, showing what to do at each stage, and flagging the issues you need to consider
Ensures that cases you undertake have a high chance of success, setting out how to take on a client from initial instructions and risk assessment to investigation
Shows how to deal with evidence
Provides stage-by-stage guidance on preparation for trial
Deals with Part 36 offers, mediation, ADR and settlement, showing you how to approach the different processes and procedures

Subscription Information

Initial price includes updating releases until December 2010 inclusive. We will contact you each year to ascertain whether you wish to renew your subscription.

2 updating releases published per annum.

Contents

Taking on a client
Funding
Limitation
Parties and capacity
Pre-action protocol
Issue and claimant's statements of case
Schedules and counter schedules
Provisional damages
Service and extension
Defendants statements of case
Amending statements of case
Third party (part 20) actions
Requests for further information (part 18)
Allocation and case management generally
Fast-track case management
Multi-track case management
Default and summary judgement
Striking out and relief from sanctions
Interim payments
Disclosure
Medical records
Witness statements and summonses
Expert evidence
Videos
Part 36 offers and payments
Mediation and alternative dispute resolution
Settlements
Trials
Costs
Appeals
Enforcement
Periodical payment orders and managing awards
Fatal accidents
Industrial diseases
Clinical negligence
Group actions
CICA applications
MIB claims
Rehabilitation
Ethical issues
Low velocity road traffic collisions