Blackstone's Guide to the Civil Justice Reforms 2013

Professor Stuart Sime is the course director of the full-time Bar professional training course at the City Law School, where he teaches civil litigation, commercial, and company law. He was a practising barrister until 2005. In his early career he spent a number of years in the litigation department of the Treasury Solicitor's Office. He is joint Editor of Blackstone's Civil Practice, the author of A Practical Approach to Civil Procedure and co-author of A Practical Approach to ADR (all published by OUP). Derek French is principal author of 29 editions of Mayson, French and Ryan on Company Law, author of two editions of Applications to Wind Up Companies and one of Model Articles of Association for Companies, editor of 16 editions of Blackstone's Statutes on Company Law and co-editor of 13 editions of Blackstone's Civil Practice, all published by OUP.

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This Guide is exactly what the profession requires. The authors have analysed the changes in the Act, the secondary legislation and the Civil Procedure Rules in a clear and systematic way, making it easy to understand the changes and their impact.