This book contains revision for the centrally assessed Civil Litigation & Evidence assessments for the Bar Training Courses (the successors to the BPTC): Barristers Training Course Bar Knowledge Course Bar Practice Course Bar Training Course Bar Vocational Studies It contains explanations of the whole curriculum and syllabus for the assessments in Civil Litigation and Evidence, no more and no less, for the Bar Training Courses from 2020. It follows the Civil Litigation process from pre-action through to trial and beyond, in a chronological structure, and sets exactly into context every assessable CPR, PD and Commentary in the White Book and the assessable paragraphs in The Jackson ADR Handbook (Second Edition, 2016). The beginning of every chapter sets out clearly which elements of the syllabus appear in this chapter with signposting to where the book deals with related areas of the syllabus which do not appear in that chapter. There are also concise summaries of the chapter at the beg