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Civil Justice Review: Report of the Review Body on Civil
Justice, London: HMSO, 1988 (Cm 394) Civil Procedure Rules, 3 vols, London: HMSO, 1999 Glasser, Cyril and Simon Roberts (editors), special issue on
“Dispute Resolution: Civil Justice and Its Alternatives”, Modern Law Review, 56/3 (1993): 452-
Heilbron, Hilary and Henry Hodge, Civil Justice on Trial: The Case for Change, London: Bar Council / Law Society, 1993
Jacob, Jack I.H., The Reform of Civil Procedural Law and Other Essays in Civil Procedure, London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1982
Jacob, Jack I.H., The Fabric of English Civil Justice, London: Stevens, 1987
Plant, Charles (editor in chief), Blackstone’s Guide to the Civil Procedure Rules, London: Blackstone Press, 1999
Rosenbaum, Samuel, The Rule-Making Authority in the English Supreme Court, Boston: Boston Book Company, 1917; reprinted Littleton, Colorado: Rothman, 1993
Scott, I.R. et al. (editors), The Supreme Court Practice, London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1999a
Scott, Richard et al. (editors), Civil Procedure: The Civil Procedure Rules, London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1999b (with updates “Civil Procedure News”)
Woolf, Harry (Lord Woolf), Access to Justice: Interim Report [and Final Report] to the Lord Chancellor on the Civil Justice System in England and Wales, 2 vols, London: HMSO, 1995-96
Zander, Michael, Cases and Materials on the English Legal System, 5th edition, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988
Zuckerman, A.A.S. and Ross Cranston (editors), Reform of Civil Procedure: Essays on “Access to Justice”, Oxford: Clarendon Press, and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995
Texts on the English High Court divide into a handful of materials on the Court as an institution, putting it in its historical context and critiquing its performance, and a much larger number of books and guides on how to bring a case in the High Court. Readers approaching either category must keep in mind that there is a proposal to abolish the High Court and merge it with the County Court. No date has yet been set, nor any name given for the new court, but the first step towards it was taken with the introduction of the new CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES on 26 April 1999 (part of what is known as the “Woolf reforms” of civil justice, after the law lord who drafted them).
