The Civil Procedure Rules Ten Years On ISBN: 9780191702228 Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Oxford University Press Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Law;
Ten years after the Civil Procedure Rules changed the landscape of civil justice in England and Wales, this book presents an analysis, by some of the leading judges, academics and practitioners involved in civil litigation in this country, of the effectiveness of the Woolf Reforms, and the challenges facing civil procedure today. With a Foreword by Lord Woolf of Barnes, contributors include some of those involved in the Access to Justice inquiry and the implementation of the CPR, as well as critics of the reforms. The book includes sections on the nature of the CPR as 'a new procedural code', case management, costs and funding, civil evidence (including the changes to expert evidence under the CPR), alternative dispute resolution, the influence of the CPR on reforms in civil law jurisdictions and the effect of EC law on English civil procedure, and empirical evidence for the effectiveness of the CPR.
After graduating in Philosophy, D�irdre 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.
