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Small Claims Procedure: A Practical Guide | 
 enlarge | Author: Patricia Pearl
Publisher: EMIS Professional Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: £18.00
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 194553
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Pages: 240
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 185811277X
Dewey Decimal Number: 340
EAN: 9781858112770
ASIN: 185811277X
Publication Date: July 1, 2001
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Take control of your litigation with this book May 12, 2006
The Consumer Action Group (www.ConsumerActionGroup.co.uk)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is not only a book that is going to be useful to you if you are suing your bank through The Consumer Action Group. This is going to be invaluable to you in any aspect at all where you attempt to Reclaim the Right.
This book is much larger that I would normally have expected to be recommending for the lay person seeking to bring their own action in the County Court without professional legal help. At 300 pages I would normally have expected something far more technical and less successful than Patricia Pearl's book. However this book is beautifully laid out informative, explanatory, full of detailed tables, check lists, cross references, sample forms and many many reminders as to the basic principles of each particular stage that Patricia Pearl happens to be dealing with at that particular point.
As can be expected the book deals with all aspects of bringing a case to court from the preliminary steps of attempting to negotiate, attempting to achieve an out of court settlement before the action starts, letters before action, drafting the claim and there are helpful forms included in the book where the steps to be taken are outlined on the forms themselves.
Patricia Pearl goes through the business of filling out a claim form from dealing with the identity of the claimant and the defendant all the way through to dealing with the value of the claim with the amount claimed, calculating the court fee and of course this knotty problem that we all have of what interest to apply to the claim. She then talks about the defence and of course the allocation questionnaire.
The book goes on to talk about costs in the Small Claims Court and a very good chapter on the hearing itself, lots of information about what is expected of you and how to conduct it.
Finally Patricia Pearl deals with the whole question of applications to set aside judgement which is something we are finding more and more on the Forum as the banks are receiving judgements against them. She then goes on to discuss the process of enforcing the judgement..
In the last chapter or so of the book Patricia Pearl deals with drafting of various documents including drafting letters before action and includes samples, she deals with other correspondence gives examples of advice on drafting claims, defences, counter claims, admissions -- and once again deals with the calculations of statutory interest.
Eventually a number of appendices deal with various issues including court fees, costs and appendix 5 contains a very useful selection of sample forms.
It is difficult to see how any particular aspect of small claims process has been not dealt with in this book. Any litigant in person who uses this book as his guide will find that he has very few questions to ask at the end. At 17.10 this is not a cheap book but on the other hand no law books are cheap. This book has the advantage of qualifying for free delivery under the Amazon rules.
I have been looking at quite a number of much smaller guides that I first imagined would be more far more suitable for the users of The Consumer Action Group forum but in fact when I compare them to this book by Patricia Pearl I find that they are really very scant in the amount of information that they give and they are still as much as half of the price of Patricia Pearl's book but probably less than a quarter of the value.
This book demystifies the Small Claims process and is wholeheartedly recommended for anyone who wants to feel in control of their litigation.
Excellent December 17, 2004
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Well written and well laid out. A little expensive, but then, you won't need any other book on the subject ...
The best 18.00 investment of my life December 19, 2001
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Patricia Pearl's book is a model of plain English. It contains all the information needed to use the small claims procedure in the county court. Armed with the information it contains I have just won my case and received 2,500. The defendant employed a Barrister at a cost of hundreds of pounds. Fortunately they had not been as well briefed as me. If you want to bring a successful action in the small claims court this is the book to have.
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