Author: Kent Sinclair
Guide to Virginia Law/Equity Reform and Other Landmark Changes
Effective January 1, 2006, a new system of pleading that fundamentally alters the way lawsuits are set up became law in Virginia. Every civil case filed in Circuit Court will be affected by these changes.
These law/equity reforms affect all litigation, civil tort cases, and contract cases, claims for injunctions, specific performance and partition of real property. Personal injury and commercial practice, trusts and estates lawyers, domestic relations lawyers, government attorneys, city and county attorneys and others will need to fully understand these changes.
Guide to Virginia Law/Equity Reform and Other Landmark Changes charts a path through the details of the new rule including previously unavailable options for the parties to agree upon jury rights that never existed before under statute or Constitutional provisions and other nuances of the new system. Because there are no "advisory committee notes" or "legislative history" for the changes, there is no other source for this information.
This guide is authored by Kent Sinclair, the Chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Rules of Court in Virginia, the attorney to whom the court system turned to frame the new system and the expert to whom the General Assembly listened in enacting the statutes that facilitate these landmark changes.
The Guide to Virginia Law/Equity Reform and Other Landmark Changes is a must-have desk-reference for civil litigation in Virginia from 2006 onward.
