Civil Litigation by Professors Janet Walker and Lorne Sossin is a concise narrative of the key elements of the resolution of civil disputes in Canada. It covers all aspects of civil procedure and provides a useful pan-Canadian comparison of legislation and court rules from various jurisdictions. Until now there has not been an introductory work on the subject of civil litigation that places it in the larger institutional, professional, and social context of dispute resolution and which explains its main aspects in a way that is informative to members of the legal community and accessible to the larger community. Civil Ligitation fills that gap.

Janet Walker, B.A. (Hons), M.A., LL.B., D.Phil. (Oxon), is Professor of Law and former Associate Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School. Professor Walker specializes in domestic and international procedural law, including conflict of laws and international commercial arbitration. She is the author of Castel & Walker, Canadian Conflict of Laws and Halsbury’s Laws of Canada: Conflict of Laws, and is the general editor of the recent editions of The Civil Litigation Process: Cases and Materials. Professor Walker is the common law advisor to the Federal Courts Rules Committee, and she was an international advisor to the American Law Institute Project on Transnational Principles and Rules of Civil Procedure. As Oxford’s 2010 Leverhulme Visiting Professor, she will develop ways to introduce procedural law into the undergraduate curriculum.

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Lorne Sossin, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., LL.B., LL.M., J.S.D. is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, where he has been teaching since 2002. Prior to that, he was on the faculty of Osgoode Hall Law School. At the University of Toronto, he is a former Associate Dean (2004–2007) and is the inaugural Academic Director of the Centre for the Legal Profession. Professor Sossin’s areas of expertise include Civil Litigation, administrative law, the legal profession, and the legal process. He has written several books and numerous articles on these subjects, including Administrative Law in Context (co-edited with Colleen Flood) and Boundaries of Judicial Review: The Law of Justiciability in Canada. Professor Sossin is the recipient of several awards for teaching and scholarship, including the 2009 OCUFA Award for Excellence in Teaching.

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"[A] remarkably accessible and sophisticated analysis of the doctrinal issues... [T]his is a book I would be very proud to have written."

Hon. Robert J. Sharpe, Court of Appeal for Ontario (from the Foreword)