Patricia Pearl has been a solicitor in practice and latterly a Judge in a busy county court until elevation. She is used to hearing actions across the full spectrum of work, including consumer law, debt collection, road traffic and cases related to personal injury, employment and landlord and tenant. Andrew Goodman is a barrister in practice. Their book is practical and authoritative, its contents including: . Financial limits, cases excluded and choice of county court . Commencing proceedings, defending proceedings and the pre-arbitration hearing . Preparations for the hearing, lay representatives . The hearing: practice, evidence and presentation issues . Mediation . Challenging the result . Precedents . Enforcement . Fees and terms.