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Product details Paperback 376 pages Publisher Oxford University Press; 2 edition (November 1, 2016) Language English ISBN-10 0198783191

The Jackson ADR Handbook Susan Blake Julie Browne Stuart Sime 9780198783190 Books Reviews

• AN IMPORTANT UPDATE ON THE EXTENSION OF DISPUTE RESOLUTION
  APPEARING FROM OUP AND THE JUDICIAL COLLEGE AT A TURNING POINT FOR ADJUDICATION AND NON-ADJUDICATION METHODS IN 21st CENTURY
  
  An appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers
  
  A first-class and fundamental practitioner publication from the Oxford University Press (OUP), “The Jackson ADR Handbook” was originally produced following recommendations made by Jackson LJ that an authoritative handbook for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) should be prepared. It was envisaged that the handbook would be used by all involved in this expanding and important area of adjudicated and non-adjudicated methods used to end a legal fight.
  
  The book has been so popular and necessary that we now have a second edition in 2016, three years since the first edition appeared in 2013. The handbook’s aim is to lay “a strong foundation as an essential guide to ADR” and it has received judicial endorsement in the Court of Appeal and the Technology and Construction Court”. And the current authors, Susan Blake, Julie Browne and Stuart Sime, and all involved in the publication, can be proud of what they have achieved for us as the end users of the system.
  
  Now, with the benefit of a few years’ hindsight on the implementation of “the Jackson reforms” which are rightly seen as wholly constructive procedural necessities, this new edition “builds on the success of the first edition to provide an updated guide to all aspects of ADR” which we are finding is more usefully described just as “dispute resolution”.
  
  The Judicial College have ensured throughout that there is a strong focus on practical guidance for the users of the system. And it is welcome to see that the second edition maintains the concise and user-friendly format of the first.
  
  The title includes an in-depth overview of the different options and principles of ADR, as well as sections covering the interplay between ADR, CPR, and the litigation process; negotiation; mediation; recording and enforcing settlements; and other alternative dispute resolution options, as well as giving a summary of the international perspective. The next edition will, presumably cover digitisation in 2019/2020.
  
  We found the additional materials such as mediation providers, specimen documents, precedents, and practice tips which are available on a companion website of the greatest assistance in what will continue to be a developing area of decision-making in the next few years as legal budgets remain as tight as ever for contentious litigation.
  
  Sir Vivian Ramsey and Tim Wallis make some most useful observations in their Preface writing that “the timing of ADR is always an important factor, particularly where avoidance of expense and time is a major consideration” – so “timing” (always the friend of the defence) forms a major section in the handbook together with the choice of an ADR option a matter most advocates would strongly endorse for practical reasons if nothing else.
  
  There was a suggestion that the handbook would be produced annually although that was not considered justified so it will probably appear now on a regular three-year cycle so that it will not take away “the familiarity of a trusted and well-thumbed reference book” – and, of course, it doesn’t!
  
  A great effort by a great legal team backed up by the splendid OUP. Thank you.
  
  The publication date is 2016.