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26 September 2014 / Patrick Allen
Issue: 7623 / Categories: Features , Personal injury
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Book review: APIL Guide to Costs and Funding

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This guide is the latest in the excellent Association of Personal Injury Lawyers’ (APIL) series of practical guides to help personal injury practitioners

Authors: Gary Barker, Mark Harvey & David Marshall
Publisher: Jordans
ISBN: 9781846617843
Price: £65.00 (paperback) £58.50 (ePDF & ePUB)

This guide is the latest in the excellent Association of Personal Injury Lawyers’ (APIL) series of practical guides to help personal injury practitioners, published by Jordans. There are now about 12 books in the series and each is of a similar size, format and price (£75 on average).

PI practitioners have plenty of nightmare hurdles to contend with but funding is probably the worst and the whole landscape changed in April 2013 with the introduction of the Jackson reforms. This book aims to provide busy practitioners with all the relevant rule changes in one handy volume and largely succeeds. The authors of the guide are acknowledged experts on costs and regular speakers at APIL events.

The first chapter deals with the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s code

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