An Update and Refresher on Relevant CPR Rules / Decisions and Procedural Steps in Catastrophic Cases – Avoiding Traps and Making the Rules Work for You
Speaker: Pankaj Madan, Barrister at 12 King’s Bench Walk
This webinar is APIL Accredited.
• Understand why procedural decisions are outcome-shaping in catastrophic personal injury and clinical negligence litigation.
• Identify how early case strategy, including pre-action steps and issuing decisions, affects evidence, experts, funding, rehabilitation and settlement pressure.
• Recognise the legal framework governing protected parties, litigation friends and different forms of capacity in civil litigation.
• Understand how procedural tools within the CPR (including pleadings, Part 8 procedure and CPR 18 requests) can be used to define and narrow the real issues in a case.
• Analyse the role and limits of expert and witness evidence in high value litigation, including the need for evidential discipline and coherence.
• Understand the strategic importance of costs management, including the preparation and use of Precedent H budgets.
• Examine the procedural rules governing interim payments and the evidential requirements needed to support such applications.
• Evaluate the role of alternative dispute resolution and the evolving power of courts to order ADR within case management.
• Assess the tactical significance of Part 36 offers, including issues around timing, withdrawal and late acceptance.
• Understand the costs consequences of procedural misconduct and non-compliance with the Civil Procedure Rules.
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Fees: This webinar is free for member of the Brain Injury Group, the NHS and registered charities to attend. A fee of £35 + VAT applies to all others.
For further information email enquiries@braininjurygroup.co.uk
