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This ‘Paperback Wing’ is both a friendly guide and a practical toolkit to help you bring or defend a claim. Its useful information and real-case examples will help you fight the tactical battle as well as get the procedure right.

It includes samples and extracts of all the materials you will need:

– letters before action,

– particulars of claim, defence, counterclaim, reply,

– directions questionnaire,

– N244 applications,

– witness statements,

– settlement agreements,

– costs schedules,

– without prejudice and Part 36 offers,

– enforcement,

– trial preparation, and

– costs schedules and costs tactics.

With the right knowledge and prior preparation, you may well be on track to win the dogfight with little risk. Because why waste your time, effort, and money?

About the author

Alex Woods is a solicitor and litigation specialist with over 25 years of experience in the courts of England and Wales. Since he runs a law firm, he deals daily with all sorts of general litigation, whether representing clients in the courts himself or giving people advice and assistance over the phone when they run their case themselves, just as you may be about to.

Cases that he has worked on include building disputes (acting for both business and individuals), negligence disputes between neighbours, professional negligence (accountants and solicitors), financial mis-selling litigation (suing banks), contractual disputes, landlord and tenant, personal injury, small-scale commercial disputes, cohabitation property disputes, contested will disputes and inheritance act claims. One new area in which Redwood Legal now provides access to justice is representing foreign businesses against UK-based opponents who are trying to use cross-border issues to evade debts.

He passionately believes in access to justice, ever since he came up against the problem of large, rich businesses and corporations who intimidate opponents with the cost of legal proceedings. He first came across this as a young lawyer whilst working for his father’s small business in Colchester, Essex, involving a dispute with a well-known construction company. This is why he also runs a YouTube channel providing people with advice and assistance on running their claims. More recently, it created the CourtWingman (dot ) com website.

Sometimes clients do not need full representation and just rely on the free materials or and the odd phone call. Alex Woods likes nothing more than when people are able to run their claims with minimal help. One recent example is a follower who had been faithfully following the free materials on YouTube and had written a long thank-you note, attaching the actual copy of the judgment that had been made in his favour! He had won without paying a penny to lawyers.

Before establishing Court Wingman and the law firm, Alex Woods was passionate about financial mis-selling and represented many clients against the banks at the time of the 2008 recession (payment protection insurance and interest rate swaps). He appeared on BBC’s popular daytime television show with Angela Rippon, Julia Somerville and Gloria Hunniford, “Rip Off Britain!”.