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Dispute Resolution - Practical Guidance

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LexisPSL Dispute Resolution provides practice notes, primary law, precedents, forms and excerpts from authoritative Butterworths commentary. Additionally, links to LexisLibrary take you directly to a broader range of relevant legal resources. With this kind of support you can cut costs, save time, and focus on profitable client work.

The information has been chosen and compiled by our expert team of solicitors and barristers, and is constantly updated, so you can be sure it’s definitive and current. It provides information in relation to a wide range of dispute resolution mechanisms and acts as a guide to understanding and applying the relevant rules and principles.

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Direct links to the relevant section of the underlying authority and commentary 

  • All England Official transcripts (Dispute Resolution)
  • All England Law Reports (Dispute Resolution)
  • All England Official Transcripts (Dispute Resolution)
  • All England Reporter (Dispute Resolution)
  • Atkins Court Forms
  • The Green Book (Civil Court Practice)
  • Cook on Costs
  • The Common Law Series
  • Halsbury’s Laws of England and Wales
  • UK Parliament Acts (Dispute Resolution)
  • UK Statutory Instruments (Dispute Resolution)

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We take direction from our Consulting Editorial Board to ensure we consistently deliver relevant practical guidance so that you have the confidence to make more informed decisions, based on sound, practical advice.

Meet the dispute resolution team who have developed LexisPSL Dispute Resolution.

Choose from a comprehensive range of topics

Key DR developments

  • Weekly update
  • Costs reforms for April 2013
  • Costs reform implementation lectures
  • Pilot schemes
  • CPR updates
  • CPRC minutes
  • Consultations and reports
  • Court and the legal profession

Applicable law

  • Introduction to applicable law
  • Rome I
  • Rome I and specific types of contract
  • Rome II
  • Rome Convention
  • Common Law and PIL(MP)A 1995

Jurisdiction

  • Introduction to jurisdiction
  • Jurisdiction and choice of court agreements
  • Judgments Regulation: domicile
  • Judgments Regulation: which court has jurisdiction
  • Judgments Regulation and specific types of contracts
  • Judgments Regulation and arbitration
  • Conventions and common law
  • Stays and anti-suit injunctions

Limitation

  • Limitation: general
  • Limitation: types of claims

Claims and remedies

  • Misrepresentation and misstatement
  • Economic torts
  • Professional negligence claims
  • Contract termination

Injunctions and other relief orders

  • Interim injunctions
  • Freezing injunctions
  • Search orders
  • Interim non-disclosure orders
  • Other types of orders and injunction

Pre-action

  • Pre-action: general
  • Pre-action protocols
  • Pre-action disclosure
  • Applicable dispute resolution clauses

Litigation

  • Starting a claim
  • The claimant and statements of case
  • The defendant and statements of case
  • The defendant and additional claims
  • Requests for further information
  • Default judgment
  • Case management
  • Applications
  • Security for costs
  • Summary judgment and strike out
  • Privilege, disclosure and inspection
  • Witness evidence
  • Trial
  • Judgments and orders

Settlement

  • Part 36 offers
  • Settlement agreements
  • Understanding mediation
  • The mediator
  • Mediation documents
  • Conducting the mediation
  • Cross border mediation

Appeals

  • Appeals: general and preliminary considerations
  • Appeals to a county court and the High Court
  • Appeals to the Court of Appeal
  • Appeals to the Supreme Court

Costs

  • Funding arrangements
  • Costs estimates and budgeting
  • General rules and costs
  • Fixed costs
  • Summary assessment
  • Provisional assessment
  • Detailed assessment
  • Types of costs orders
  • Discontinuance
  • Solicitor and client costs
  • Costs only proceedings

Service

  • Introduction to service
  • Serving the claim form in the jurisdiction
  • Serving the claim form outside the jurisdiction
  • Serving documents other than the claim form
  • Problems with service

Enforcement

  • Introduction to enforcement
  • Information hearings
  • Seizing the debtors possessions
  • Money owed to the debtor
  • Attachment of earnings
  • Charging orders
  • Equitable execution
  • Debt management and relief
  • Enforcement of foreign judgments
  • Enforcement overseas
  • Contempt, committal and sequestration

Arbitration

  • Understanding arbitration
  • The arbitration agreement
  • Jurisdiction
  • Starting an arbitration
  • Responding to an arbitration request
  • The tribunal
  • Conducting the arbitration
  • Evidence
  • Interim and emergency measures
  • The award
  • Costs
  • Challenges and appeals
  • Enforcement
  • ICC arbitration
  • LCIA arbitration
  • UNCITRAL arbitration
  • Industry-specific arbitration

Adjudication

  • Understanding adjudication
  • The adjudicator
  • Jurisdiction
  • Conducting the adjudication
  • The award
  • Enforcement

ADR

  • Understanding ADR
  • ADR clauses
  • Types of ADR

Property disputes

  • Business tenancies
  • Assignment and underletting
  • Guarantees and rent deposit
  • Repairs and obligations
  • Service charge and outgoings
  • Rent and rent review
  • Enforcing lease covenants
  • Terminating leases
  • Easements
  • Adverse possession
  • Neighbour disputes
  • Licenses and tenancies at will
  • Mortgages
  • Residential tenancies
  • Leasehold enfranchisement

Insolvency

  • Corporate insolvency processes
  • Individual insolvency processes
  • Statutory demands


Professional Development

Our webinars represent the most efficient way for you to develop your knowledge, delivering expert advice and guidance to you when and where you choose. A 12-month webinar subscription ensures you receive all the training and CPD points you need and because you choose the time and place, there’s virtually no impact on your working day and absolutely no travel costs.

Our conferences provide immediate and direct access to the thought leaders in your industry and a large number of your fellow professionals. Six to eight case studies provide an insight into how top experts are dealing with key points of law and need-to-know judicial rulings. Supporting workshops offer practical and specific guidance. Carrying up to 6.5 CPD points each, our one-day conferences are an opportunity to network, debate and discuss with the key personnel in your industry - away from the office and in a top-class environment.

 Events cover the full spectrum of dispute resolution topics and are delivered by field experts such as:

  • Professor Dominic Regan, Solicitor and member of the Civil Justice Council Costs Committee
  • David Marks QC, 3-4 South Square
  • Graham Read QC, Devereux Chambers
  • His Honour Michael Cook, Author of Cook on Costs; Consultant, Horsey Lightly & Fynn
  • William Flenley, Barrister, Hailsham Chambers
  • Nick Bird, Partner, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP
  • Neil Mirchandani, Partner, Lovells

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