Dispute Resolution and Litigation

Emma Mulholland is a solicitor who was admitted to the Roll in 2013, having cross-qualified from being called to the Bar of The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple in 2006. Emma has worked in several busy law practices since specialising primarily in civil and commercial litigation and has undertaken a considerable amount of advocacy work in both the County Court and the High Court throughout her career.Emma also taught at BPP University Law School from 2014 to 2017, acting as a tutor on the LLB (Contract Law, Law of Torts and Professional Skills in Practice), the Graduate Diploma in Law (Contract Law) and the Legal Practice Course (Civil Litigation). Emma was also appointed as a Supervising Solicitor for BPP’s pro bono unit. While working at BPP, Emma attained Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.Emma left practice in 2020 and is now engaged with legal research, writing and the assessment of students’ examinations and coursework.John Bates is an Assistant Professor at Northumbria Law School, where he leads several modules, including Tort Law, across all of the school’s programmes, and on several modules, including Civil Litigation and Evidence, on the Bar Training Course at the school. He previously led the Civil Litigation module on the integrated MLaw degree programme. He is a qualified solicitor, admitted in 1997, and a former Dispute Resolution Partner in private practice (now non-practising) whose teaching and research interests focus on torts, civil dispute resolution, professional practice and autonomous systems. He has led the law school’s Open/Distance Learning, Law with Business and Law with International Business programmes and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

• CHAPTER 1: Civil litigation – an introductory overviewCHAPTER 2: A refresher on Contract and TortCHAPTER 3: Causes of action and limitationCHAPTER 4: Litigation fundingCHAPTER 5: Obtaining pre-action remedies and informationCHAPTER 6: The overriding objective and alternative dispute resolutionCHAPTER 7: The court’s case management powers and costsCHAPTER 8: Entitlement to damages and calculating interestCHAPTER 9: Preparing and issuing a Part 7 claimCHAPTER 10: The defendant’s responseCHAPTER 11: Focus on statements of caseCHAPTER 12: Case management: general provisionsCHAPTER 13: EvidenceCHAPTER 14: Expert evidenceCHAPTER 15: DisclosureCHAPTER 16: Interim applicationsCHAPTER 17: Discontinuance, negotiation and settlement before trialCHAPTER 18: Preparations for trialCHAPTER 19: AppealsCHAPTER 20: EnforcementAppendixKnowledge Checks - Answers