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16 June 2021 / Dominic Regan
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Book review: Zuckerman on Civil Procedure: Principles of Practice (4th Edition)

Author: Professor Adrian Zuckerman

Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell

ISBN: 9780414078420

RRP: £250.00


Long overdue is the new edition of this unique work. Arrival of the last edition coincided with the implementation of the Jackson reforms back in 2013. So much has happened since, not least because of those reforms.

For the first time, the eponymous author has brought talent in to share the burden of updating 1,600 pages of text. What he performed singlehandedly over the first three editions has necessitated the acquisition of both a general editor and ten contributors.

Practitioners are obviously familiar with the major commentaries upon the Civil Procedure Rules, affectionately referred to by the hue of their covers. Those tomes tell us what the rules are and how they have been interpreted. Zuckerman describes the provisions, but then has no compunction in subjecting them to criticisms which one day might just provoke rule change or cause the judiciary to reconsider existing authorities. There is no work in the field

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