Multi-Party Actions

• What is the new English Civil Procedure Rule on group litigation?
• How will it work in practice?
• What are the funding issues?
• How have multi-party rules worked in other jurisdictions?

Christopher Hodges, partner at CMS Cameron McKenna, is recognised as one of the leading experts in Europe on product liability and multi-party actions and has written the first detailed analysis in a new book entitled Multi-Party Actions, published by Oxford University Press.

"An indispensable aid to those who have to grapple with problems of group litigation" (Lord Steyn), the book provides:

• a unique source of know-how on investigating and pleading claims, management techniques and funding issues
• 16 case studies of major English multi-party actions, written by the practitioners involved, which disclose important information on major tort cases of the past 15 years
• chapters contributed by leading lawyers from USA, Canada and Australia on their class action rules

To order your copy of this book, e-mail book.orders@oup.co.uk or telephone +44 (0)1536 741727, quoting ISBN number 0-19-829896-X.

For further information, please contact Chris Hodges by e-mail at christopher.hodges@cms-cmck.com or by telephone on +44 (0)20 7367 2738.