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
