Odgers' Principles of Pleadings and Practice

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Description
SEVERAL enactments heralded the approach of this edition, more particularly the Civil Evidence Act 1968 and the Administration of Justice Act 1969, which have resulted in many new rules. And whilst these Acts are in their early childhood, the birth of others, expected shortly, will further affect parts of the text, e.g., legislation resulting from the Report of the Committee on the Enforcement of Judgment Debts (an Attachment of Earnings Bill is already in print) and the Administration of Justice Act 1970, should soon be brought into effect. Thus the chapter on Execution and Enforcement of Judgments will almost certainly require considerable revision by the time of the next edition, and the accuracy of the sections dealing with committal and attachment of debts may even now be short-lived indeed. Changes in the organisation and administration of Assizes, following some of the recommendations of the “Beeching Report," cannot be far away. Advantage has been taken of the permissiveness of section 12, Family Reform Act 1969 to avoid reference to "infants"; and since, by virtue of that Act, “minors " must be deemed to mature earlier, it will be found that the evergreen youth, who by one of the precedents in all previous editions has ever complained of breach of warranty on the sale of a mare, has become the more Yictim of an over-enthusiastic car salesman.
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Contents
1.    An Introductory Survey
2.    Matters to be Considered before Writ
3.    The Writ and Its Indorsement
4.    Matters to be Considered after Writ
5.    Procedure under Order 14
6.    Pleadings
7.    Materials Facts
8.    Certainty
9.    Answering your Opponent’s Pleading
10.  Attacking your Opponent’s Pleading
11.  Amendment
12.  Statement of Claim
13.  Defence
14.  Set-off and Counterclaim
15.  Reply etc.
16.  Discovery of Documents
17.  Setting or Withdrawing an Action
18.  Summons for Directions
19.  Interrogatories
20.  Advice on Evidence
21.  Trial
22.  Actions by Writ in the Chancery Division
23.  Other Causes and Matters in the Chancery Division
24.  Appeals
25.  Execution and Enforcement of Judgments
26.  Costs
Appendix 1 - Rules of Particular use to Students
Appendix 2 - Precedents
Index
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Author Details
Giles Francis Harwood, M.A. (Oxon) of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law, Senior State Counsel (Republic of Kenya)
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