O'Hare & Browne

O’Hare & Browne: Civil Litigation explains how the Civil Procedure Rules work in practice. It seeks to cover all CPR rules relating to all stages in all claims for debts, damages and other remedies.

Its purpose is to explain and illustrate the practices applicable to most claims and provides tactical and strategic advice, examples, tips and solutions. It covers as many recent cases as possible for use as illustrations and in doing so summarises the full facts of complex cases so as to make them understandable. It demystifies many dense procedural rules in down-to-earth language which is clear and to the point, and fully cross-references important paragraphs of the White Book.

O’Hare & Browne has been a best seller for many years. It has always been praised for its clarity and lucidity. It provides essential reading for all civil litigation fee earners, barristers practising in civil litigation, undergraduates and SQE and Bar students, and covers all key topics from the SRA SQE Dispute Resolution Assessment Specification and the Bar's Civil Litigation Syllabus.

The 22nd edition covers the many important CPR changes made, and more than one hundred procedure cases reported since the last edition. The major updates include:

-A new section on housing disrepair claims.
-New guidance as to costs budgeting and as to guideline hourly rates on budgeting
-The Supreme Court’s restatement as to the law relating to claims expressed in a foreign currency (Federal Republic of Nigeria v Process & Industrial Developments Ltd [2026] A.C. 50)
Fuller coverage of Practice Direction 57AD (concerning disclosure in the Business & Property Division)
-New case law on applications to permit reliance upon surveillance evidence
-A new section on particular types of offers to settle
-What should happen if a witness has to give evidence for more than a day or half-day
-Costs consequences if a defence of fundamental dishonesty fails
-Avoiding pitfalls when serving court documents
-Non-party costs orders against credit hire companies
-New guidance on making an application to dispute the court's jurisdiction
-Case management in the Supreme Court (which is now conducted online)