Professor Stuart Sime is the course director of the full-time Bar professional training course at the City Law School, where he teaches civil litigation, commercial, and company law. He was a practising barrister until 2005. In his early career he spent a number of years in the litigation department of the Treasury Solicitor's Office. He is co-author of Blackstone's Guide to the Civil Justice Reforms 2013, the author of A Practical Approach to Civil Procedure, co-author of A Practical Approach to ADR, and co-author of The Jackson ADR Handbook (all published by OUP). Derek French is principal author of 37 editions of Mayson, French and Ryan on Company Law, author of four editions of Applications to Wind Up Companies and one of Model Articles of Association for Companies, editor of 25 editions of Blackstone's Statutes on Company Law and co-author of Blackstone's Guide to the Civil Justice Reforms 2013 (all published by OUP).