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This 43-page guide is a comprehensive, structured, and visually engaging revision resource for Dispute Resolution, breaking down one of the densest topics into digestible sections:
- Options for dispute resolution: characteristics of arbitration, mediation, and litigation and when they’re appropriate.
- Resolving disputes through civil claims: limitation periods, pre-action protocols, parties and causes of action, applicable law, and Welsh language considerations.
- Starting proceedings: allocation between High Court and County Court, specialist court jurisdiction.
- Issuing and serving proceedings: claim forms, adding/removing parties, service procedures, alternative service methods.
- Responding to claims: admitting, disputing, defending, counterclaims, discontinuance, and settlement.
- Statements of case: purpose, structure, amendments, and requests for further information.
- Interim applications: summary judgment, interim payments, and injunctions.
- Case management: overriding objective, track allocation, case management directions, sanctions, and costs.
- Evidence: relevance, hearsay, expert evidence, witness statements, affidavits.
- Disclosure and inspection: standard and specific disclosure, electronic disclosure, privilege, and waiver.
- Trial procedures: pre-trial preparation, trial bundles, courtroom etiquette, leading vs non-leading questions, and judgment.
- Costs: management, budgeting, inter-partes and non-party costs, Part 36 offers, and security for costs.
- Appeals: permission, destinations, and grounds.
- Enforcement of money judgments: oral examinations and enforcement methods.