Multi-Party Actions

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-829896-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 608 Seiten, Format (B × H): 177 mm x 255 mm, Gewicht: 1115 g

This is the first practitioner's work to deal in detail with the new rule (19.III) on Group Litigation Orders under the Civil Procedure Rules. Due to come into effect in mid-2000, it introduces for the first time specific provisions dealing with the procedural aspects of managing multi-party actions.

The book provides exhaustive analysis of the new rule and relates it to the extensive experience which has been gained from the major multi-party actions of recent years, such as those relating to Opren, Benzodiazepine tranquilizers, the Sellafield radiation claims, the Lloyd's litigation, Norplant, the British Coal Vibration White Finger litigation and the British Coal respiratory disease litigation. The book includes fifteen case studies on these and other major cases, written by the practitioners involved and providing a major factual resource for all tort lawyers. The details of the matters in issue in these cases and their resolution have not previously been easily accessible, nor systematically analysed.

Also included are chapters contributed by leading lawyers from the US, Canada, and Australia on their class action rules, which enables useful comparisons to be made on points both of principle and practice.

Written by a leading expert in the field, the book provides a uniquely detailed analysis of multi-party actions and their management.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hodges, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht Schuldrecht Kaufvertrag, Tausch, Verbrauchsgüterkauf
• Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht Schuldrecht Haftpflichtrecht, Deliktsrecht, Produkthaftungsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Allgemeines Verfahrens-, Zivilprozess- und Insolvenzrecht Allgemeines Prozessrecht, Kostenrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- PART I: INTRODUCTORY

- 1: The Phenomenon of Multi-Party Actions in England and Wales

- PART II: MANAGING GROUP LITIGATION

- 2: Basic Principles and Issues

- 3: Initiation

- 4: Investigating, Commencing and Pleading Claims

- 5: Initial Management of the Group

- 6: Advertising

- 7: Further Management Issues

- 8: Costs

- 9: Other Procedural Mechanisms

- PART III: FUNDING MULTI-PARTY ACTIONS

- 10: Legal Expenses Insurance

- 11: Conditional Fee Arrangements

- 12: Public Funding

- PART IV: MULTI-PARTY RULES IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS

- 13: Laurel J Harbour, Shook, Hardy and Bacon LLP, London: Class Actions: An American Perspective

- 14: Jay Prestage and Gordon McKee, Blake, Cassels and Graydon, Toronto: Class Actions in the Common Law Provinces of Canada

- 15: Jocelyn Kellam and S Stuart Clark, Clayton Utz, Sydney: Multi-Party Actions in Australia

- PART V: CASE STUDIES

- 16: Introduction to Case Studies

- 17: Simon Pearl, Davies Arnold Cooper, London: Pertussis Vaccine Litigation

- 18: Anne Ware, Davies Arnold Cooper: The Opren Litigation

- 19: Simon Pearl, Davies Arnold Cooper, London: HIV Haemophilia Litigation

- 20: Christopher Hodges, CMS Cameron McKenna, London: Gravigard IUD

- 21: John Kelleher, Theodore Goddard, London: Myodil Litigation

- 22: Gary Hickinbottom, CMS Cameron McKenna, London: The Benzodiazepine Litigation

- 23: Gary Wakinshaw, Kwelm Management, London: Lloyd's Litigation

- 24: Aidan Thomson, Freshfields, London: Reay v BNFL; Hope v BNFL

- 25: Aidan Thomson, Freshfields, London: Manufacturing Operations: Mixed Claims: B and Ors v X Co; D and Ors v X Co

- 26: John Evans, Ashurst Morris Crisp, London: Docklands Nuisance Class Actions

- 27: Christopher Vigrass and Eleanor Boddington, Ashurst Morris Crisp, London: The Lockton Litigation

- 28: David Body, Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, Sheffield: The Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (Human Growth Hormone) Litigation

- 29: Andrew Tucker, Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, Sheffield: British Coal: Vibration White Finger

- 30: Andrew Tucker, Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, Sheffield: British Coal: Respiratory Disease Litigation

- 31: Arundel McDougall, Rowe and Maw, London: Norplant

- 32: Miles Alexander, Simmons and Simmons, London and Mark Elvy, Ashurst Morris Crisp, London: Tobacco Litigation: 1992-1999

- APPENDICES

- A CPR Rule 19.III and Practice Direction

- B Practice Direction - Group Litigation

- C CPA Rule 19.II

- D Practice Direction

- E CPR Rule 48.A and Extract from Practice Direction: Parts 43-48

- F Directive on Injunctions

- G Specimen initial group litigation (GLO) directions

- H Legal Services Commission's Multi-Party Action Documents

- I Solicitors firms which are members of the Multi-Party Action Panel

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Hodges is recognised as one of the leading experts in Europe on product liability law and multi-party actions. He is Vice-Chair of the International Bar Association's Section on Business Law's Committee on Business Consumer Affairs (which covers product liability) and Chair of the Working Party on Product Liability of the Confederation of British Industry. He is also Fellow of the Society of Advanced Legal Studies. He has been published extensively on European product liability and product regulatory law.