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Table of Contents Section 1:   Introduction Section 2:   A new code or selective amendment Section 3:   Procedural reform and the Basic Law Section 4:   Overriding objective and case management powers Section 5:   Pre-action protocols Section 6:   Commencement of Proceedings Section 7:   Disputing Jurisdiction Section 8:   Default Judgments and Admissions Section 9:   Pleadings Section 10:   Summary Disposal of Proceedings Section 11:   Sanctioned offers and payments Section 12:   Interim remedies and Mareva injunctions in aid of foreign proceedings Section 13:   Case management timetabling and milestones Section 14:   Docket system, specialist lists and vexatious litigants Section 15:   Multi-party litigation and derivative actions Section 16:   Discovery Section 17:   Interlocutory applications and summary assessment of costs Section 18:   Wasted costs Section 19:   Witness statements and evidence Section 20:   Expert evidence Section 21:   Case managing trials Section 22:   Leave to appeal Section 23:   Appeals Section 24:   General approach to inter-party costs Section 25:   Costs transparency Section 26:   Challenging one's own lawyer's bill Section 27:   Taxing the other side's costs Section 28:   CPR Schedule Section 29:   Alternative Dispute Resolution Section 30:   Unrepresented litigants Section 31:   Judicial review Section 32:   Material support for the reforms