Clough & Clough on Personal Injuries

PART 1: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Internal referencing - List of Cases, Books, Appendices
Chapter 3: The flow charts
Chapter 4: Definitions

PART 2: EARLY CONSIDERATIONS
Chapter 5: Important concepts before the beginning of the action
Chapter 6: Limitation period
Chapter 7: The PI Questionnaire, Check List Review Notice and Check List Review hearing
Chapter 8: The “milestone dates”
Chapter 9: When documents must be filed/lodged/served

PART 3: SETTLEMENT
Chapter 8: Mediation
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11: Sanctioned offers, sanctioned payments, and Calderbank offers

PART 4: DISCOVERY, FBP AND INTERROGATORIES
Chapter 12: Discovery
Chapter 13: FBP
Chapter 14: Interrogatories
Chapter 15: Voluntary particulars

PART 5: WITNESS STATEMENTS
Chapter 16: Purpose of WSs and underlying objectives of the CJR
Chapter 17: Procedural aspects
Chapter 18: Contents
Chapter 19: When should decisions as to admissibility be made by the Court – at the interlocutory stage or at trial?
Chapter 20: Striking out
Chapter 21: Rules as to supplementary witness statements

PART 6: EXPERT EVIDENCE
Chapter 22: Leave or consent is required to adduce expert evidence
Chapter 23: Consequences of a party failing to obtain consent or leave
Chapter 24: Considerations when determining whether to grant leave
Chapter 25: Timetable for expert meeting and adducing expert reports
Chapter 26: Individual experts, a single joint expert, or a joint expert report?
Chapter 27: Liability Experts
Chapter 28: Quantum Experts
Chapter 29: What are the duties of an expert?
Chapter 30: Duties of practitioners when instructing experts
Chapter 31: Quantum Reports
Chapter 32: Communications with experts
Chapter 33: Types of expert evidence
Chapter 34: Questioning or clarifying the existing expert reports
Chapter 35: Court’s role
Chapter 36: Weight given to an expert report?

PART 7: INTERLOCUTORY JUDGMENTS
Chapter 37: Entering IJ
Chapter 38: Assessing damages
Chapter 39: Setting aside default judgments

ANNEXES

Neal Clough read History part 1 and Law part 2 at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge.  While taking his Bar finals he taught briefly at Harrow School and was head of History at La Sainte Union School Highgate. He spent his whole pupillage with Robert Alexander (Lord Alexander was later described by Lord Denning as "the best barrister of his generation"). Neal came to Hong Kong in January 1978 joining the Legal Aid Department where at various times he headed up the Criminal section, the Employee's Compensation Unit and the Family Section.  Neal returned to private practice in 1994 concentrating on PI, Family, and general commercial litigation.

Michelle Clough attended school in Hong Kong before going to the University of Kent, Canterbury, where she obtained a Bachelor of Laws. She went on to complete a Master of Laws at the University College London. After this, she returned to Hong Kong for her PCLL, where she studied at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. After completing her PCLL she did one year of pupillage and was called to the bar in 2017. She is now a practising barrister at Victoria Chambers.