The Civil Procedure Rules Ten Years On

After graduating in Philosophy, Déirdre Dwyer gained a second degree in Law, and was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn. Her monograph on The Judicial Assessment of Expert Evidence was published in 2008. Dr Dwyer is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law, and a Junior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford. Her current research interests are in the principles of civil evidence and the origins of modern English civil procedure. She lectures in Evidence and Civil Procedure to graduate students at the University of Oxford. Dr Dwyer serves as the book reviews editor for the International Commentary on Evidence, as a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Evidence and Proof, and will be one of the editors of the 17th (2010) edition of Phipson on Evidence.

• PART ONE: 'A NEW PROCEDURAL CODE'?; PART TWO: CASE MANAGEMENT; PART THREE: COSTS AND FUNDING; PART FOUR: CIVIL PROCEDURE; PART FIVE: ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION; PART SIX: THE CPR AND EUROPE; PART SEVEN: EXPERIENCES OF THE CPR

Scholarly, timely and not infrequently controversial, the perspectives offered in "CPR Ten Years On" are an invaluable contribution to the ongoing debate continually generated by the CPR. No civil practitioner should be without it as we all have our own views of how successful the new landscape has been...