An Update on CPR Rules, Key Decisions and Procedure in Catastrophic Cases

Speaker:

• Pankaj Madan, Barrister at 12 King's Bench Walk 

This webinar is APIL Accredited and carries 1 CPD hour.

• 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.

FREE to members: This webinar is free for members of the Brain Injury Group, Charities and NHS employees.

A fee of £35 (+ VAT) applies to all others.

If you're not a member and would like access or having difficulty registering for this webinar, please email Tiegan.Morley@braininjurygroup.co.uk

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