Civil Law Exam Notes (Comprehensive)

Description

Includes all examinable topics. Step by step guidelines and easy to follow. All court rules have been included in the word document which were displayed in the lecture AND additional rules which were not specifically included in the lecture TOPICS ARE: Discovery (an example of comprehensivity): - ordinary discovery - discovery after issuing proceedings - notice requirements - general discovery and expanded discovery - privilege - documents not required by discovery - noncompliance Other topics: Interrogatories Disposition before trial Defaults and its procedure Summary judgments Interlocutory applications and orders Freezing orders and preservation orders Injunctions and adjournments Settlements and offers of compromise Calderbank offers and informal offers ADR Trial judgments and costs Splitting trials, failure to attend a trial and no case submissions Verdicts, reports, and judgments Setting aside and correcting judgments Costs after trial Penalties for choosing the wrong court Multiparty litigation Appeals and enforcement Powers of the Court of Appeal Warrants of seizure and sale