• A comprehensive guide to the use of legal skills in practice, combined with substantive law and procedural and evidential rules
• Offers sound advice on analysing a case and representing a client, as well as guidance on writing and drafting effectively
• Includes practical examples, checklists and forms to help practitioners navigate their way round this area of Law
• Provides a step-by-step guide to litigation from the first interview to post-judgment.

New to this edition

• Building on the foundations of the popular A Practical Approach to Legal Advice and Drafting, this edition has been rewritten to take into account significant changes in legal practice, such as the growing use of IT and changes in the work done by solicitors and barristers.
• Fully updated to take into account the Woolf reforms, and other changes in the rules of procedure and evidence.
• Takes account of the Civil Procedure Rules.

Readership: Primary: Civil Litigation practitioners (particularly newly qualified), trainee pratictioners; LPC and BVC students. Secondary: Academics; first degree law students; reference libraries.

Susan Blake, Director of Studies and Associate Dean, Inns of Court School of Law

"A Practical Approach to Effective Litigation is an excellent text for any lawyer, particularly a young lawyer who has just completed their training. The text provides a number of excellent tips to guide the reader through the effective management of litigation...' this is a well-written and practical guide to litigation and certainly a text that I will keep close to my desk. It provides a number of precedents which will be extremely useful to any practitioner and, at only £34.95, it provides excellent value for money. Any commercial or civil litigator should seriously consider purchasing this text." - Russell Kelsall, The Student Law Journal

1: What is "Effective Litigation"?
2: The Roles of Legal Practitioners
3: The Professional Context - Ethos and Ethics
4: An Overview of the Litigation Process
5: Financing Litigation
6: Techniques for Meetings With Clients
7: Advising a Client and Taking Instructions
8: Establishing and Managing Facts
9: Managing and Using Legal Knowledge
10: Defining Issues to State a Case
11: Skills in Legal Writing
12: Drafting a Statement of Case
13: Deciding Who Should Sue Whom
14: Pursuing Appropriate Remedies and Relief
15: The Vital Role of Evidence
16: Procedural Rules as Practical Tools
17: Defending an Action
18: The Contract Model
19: The Tort Model
20: Settling a Case
21: Preparing a Case for Trial
22: Presenting a Case in Court
23: Enforcing or Challenging a Judgement
24: Your Practice