Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3171916 in Books
• Published on: 2000-12-28
• Original language: English
• Binding: CD-ROM
• 1184 pages

Synopsis
This new edition of an acclaimed work has been rewritten in the light of the Civil Procedure Rules. It remains a specifically practical text, helping the practitioner adopt the correct statement of case and directing them to the specifics in any circumstances of personal injury. Each section has an introductory text explaining the relevant principles, legislation, selected authorities and sample forms. * A wide selection of frequently required pleadings are set out in full * Modernised in line with the CPR - and including the relevant Rules, protocols and Practice Directions * A one-stop reference source also containing commentary and statutory materials * Accompanied by a CD-ROM containing the pleadings

Customer Reviews

Essential to the personal injury lawyer
Although this book doesn't look as if it would hold as much as PILS it does. It is easy to use with up to date cases. Under its pleadings section it provides assistance in letters of claim for those more unusual cases where other publications seem to miss. This book deserves its own shelf rather than share with other books in the book case.

Conviently discrete PI pleadings
THE FOURTH EDITION

It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that Personal Injury claims can often be as painful as the injury itself for the victim. Here's an authoritative and definitive text designed to ease the process considerably. Patrick Curran QC and his team have indeed excelled here with `PI Pleadings', now in its fourth edition.

It's an indispensable reference work on the subject which I find particularly helpful for my county court practice, and it functions as a complete working manual, offering everything the busy practitioner needs to settle pleadings in such claims.

In the preface to this new 4th Edition, Patrick Curran refers to the `raison d'etre' behind the book by quoting Dyson LJ, who said,

`It is fundamental to our adversarial system of justice that the parties should clearly identify the issues that arise in the litigation....The starting point must always be the pleadings.'

The first edition of the book was therefore written 15 years ago, as a compendium - a collection of pleadings - under discrete headings. The pleadings here in the fifteen chapters are illustrations from actual cases together with the relevant legal principles extracted from the leading authorities in both long-established and contemporary case law.

Curran makes an interesting point, writing that modern search engines achieve miraculous speed in producing references, but then (rather unhelpfully) reminds us they produce them by the thousand!

`There is no substitute for the human eye,' he says, `for discerning the relevant point from the irrelevant' -- hence the practical usefulness of this specialist book on pleadings.

The Table of Contents alone is a source of wonder even for the general reader, containing as it does a lengthy 'shopping list' so to speak, of hundreds of ghastly things that can befall mere human beings illustrated by these examples:

* Under `Private Individuals' Liability: `Claimant Barmaid Injured When Defendant's Dog Ran Into Her Causing Her To Fall'; and

* Under Product Liability: 'Claimant Suffered Electric Shock from Hi-Fi Appliance' and `Lemonade--Mould in Bottle Causing Gastroenteritis.'

The book also contains pleadings from numerous other general topics from occupiers' liability and RTA liability to specific areas such as liabilities for sports injuries and injuries by animals. It provides an original selection of defences, paired with specific pleadings and excels for its completeness and ease of use in that it lays out pleadings in contemporary style using plain English and, of course, it's updated to reflect the most recent changes to the CPR in an uncomplicated way.

For added versatility and convenience, there is an accompanying CD which contains all pleadings in electronic format organised, chapter by chapter, in the same way as in the book for those who have the time.

With the re-structuring of the work, and the innovative new chapter on costs which I found particularly helpful, the scope of the book has widened to give us conveniently discrete detail on pleadings for the 21st century.

Simply the best guide
In 1996 I decided to become a personal injury practitioner and the first edition of this book acted as a guide, philosopher and friend. The second edition was long awaited and it is better and more effective. It is simply the best guide to conducting personal injury litigation at the sharp end when the matter has to go before a Court. It carries my highest recommendation.