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Trying to get to grips with the law underlying your dispute? Looking at trying to settle? Puzzled by costs and funding reforms? Out of your depth on jurisdiction issues?

Civil litigation costs and funding

Make use of our costs recovery toolkit, precedents practice notes, and completing costs budget checklist. As well as funding arrangements guidance, principles of costs recovery, costs budgeting and management.

Starting and progressing a civil claim

Choose from checklists, practice notes, flowcharts and precedents to help you understand and apply to your practice to all relevant provisions and obligations – and avoid consequences for non-compliance.

Starting and progressing a civil claim

Checklists and practice notes on areas like debt claims, corporate disputes, and civil fraud to make sure you’re familiar with the particular procedural provisions governing a dispute and the underlying substantive law.

Dispute Resolution Guidance

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Associated legal terms

Executive tribunal (mini-trial or supervised settlement procedure)

a non-binding ADR process where, after a semi-formal hearing before a tribunal consisting of a senior executive from each party and a third party neutral, the tribunal party representatives try to negotiate a settlement assisted by the neutral

Order of authorities

Order of authorities describes the structured list of cases, legislation and other legal materials relied on in written or oral submissions, usually arranged in a logical and hierarchical sequence. It is not a term defined by statute or case law, but a widely used procedural and advocacy expression across the courts of England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland.

An order of authorities will typically identify binding precedents (such as Supreme Court or Court of Appeal decisions) before persuasive authorities, and primary legislation before secondary legislation or commentary. It is usually cross‑referenced to a bundle of authorities and to pinpoint citations used in skeleton arguments, written submissions or notes of argument.

Courts may prescribe specific formats in practice directions or court guides, including requirements on numbering, neutral citations and page/paragraph references. An effective order of authorities assists the judge in locating and prioritising relevant legal sources, helps avoid duplication between parties, and supports efficient hearing management and judicial decision‑making in civil, criminal and appellate proceedings.

Profit costs

Costs paid or payable in respect of work done by a solicitor which are not “disbursements”.
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