PART I: INTRODUCTORY 1. The Phenomenon of Multi-Party Actions in England and Wales PART II: MANAGING GROUP LITIGATION 2. Basic Principles and Issues 3. Initiation 4. Investigating, Commencing and Pleading Claims 5. Initial Management of the Group 6. Advertising 7. Further Management Issues 8. Costs 9. Other Procedural Mechanisms PART III: FUNDING MULTI-PARTY ACTIONS 10. Legal Expenses Insurance 11. Conditional Fee Arrangements 12. Public Funding PART IV: MULTI-PARTY RULES IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS 13. Class Actions: An American Perspective, Laurel J Harbour, Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, London 14. Class Actions in the Common Law Provinces of Canada, Jay Prestage and Gordon McKee, Blake, Cassels & Graydon, Toronto 15. Multi-Party Actions in Australia, Jocelyn Kellam and S Stuart Clark, Clayton Utz, Sydney PART V: CASE STUDIES 16. Introduction to Case Studies 17. Pertussis Vaccine Litigation, Simon Pearl, Davies Arnold Cooper, London 18. The Opren Litigation, Anne Ware, Davies Arnold Cooper 19. HIV Haemophilia Litigation, Simon Pearl, Davies Arnold Cooper, London 20. Gravigard IUD, Christopher Hodges, CMS Cameron McKenna, London 21. Myodil Litigation, John Kelleher, Theodore Goddard, London 22. The Benzodiazepine Litigation, Gary Hickinbottom, CMS Cameron McKenna, London 23. Lloyd's Litigation, Gary Wakinshaw, Kwelm Management, London 24. Reay v BNFL; Hope v BNFL, Aidan Thomson, Freshfields, London 25. Manufacturing Operations: Mixed Claims: B & Ors v X Co; D & Ors v X Co, Aidan Thomson, Freshfields, London 26. Docklands Nuisance Class Actions, John Evans, Ashurst Morris Crisp, London 27. The Lockton Litigation, Christopher Vigrass and Eleanor Boddington, Ashurst Morris Crisp, London 28. The Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (Human Growth Hormone) Litigation, David Body, Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, Sheffield 29. British Coal: Vibration White Finger, Andrew Tucker, Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, Sheffield 30. British Coal: Respiratory Disease Litigation, Andrew Tucker, Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, Sheffield 31. Norplant, Arundel McDougall, Rowe & Maw, London 32. Tobacco Litigation: 1992-1999, Miles Alexander, Simmons & Simmons, London and Mark Elvy, Ashurst Morris Crisp, London APPENDICES A CPR Rule 19.III and Practice Direction B Practice Direction - Group Litigation C CPA Rule 19.II D Practice Direction E CPR Rule 48.A and Extract from Practice Direction: Parts 43-48 F Directive on Injunctions G Specimen initial group litigation (GLO) directions H Legal Services Commission's Multi-Party Action Documents I Solicitors firms which are members of the Multi-Party Action Panel

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`This is an excellent addition to the Oxford series of works on litigation. ... Overall, Hodges has produced a minor miracle: a book which is useful, comprehensive, accurate, up-to-date, stimulating and outward-looking. The book is also handsomely produced.' The Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 61, Part 2, July 2002 |d 5 Nov 2002.