Up-to-date to mid-December 2003, this guide provides authoritative description and analysis of the process of civil litigation in the county courts and in the High Court. This new edition will include all relevant cases newly reported since the 2003 edition, the texts of all changes to the Civil Procedure Rules and Practice Directions, fees orders and relevant statutes, together with the text of the latest edition of the Patents Court Guide. The CD-ROM includes hypertext linking for, among other things, references to the Civil Procedure Rules and Practice Directions. The CD-ROM also includes all relevant forms.