I would imagine it was a condition of approval for the study that formal written consent be obtained. In the lack of that, you can't use the data obtained.

Hi Claira, hope you find it useful. I was in a similar situation (although not quite as far from campus!).

Oops! Thought this was a recent development from the recent addition...

The outcome of the viva is an academic judgment that you cannot appeal. The only grounds for appeal are procedural.
You have to address all the major corrections. However, just like the comments of a reviewer you can disagree with the examiner. I had this situation, my external examiner said I should change something because he had the opposite view. I explained why I held my position, addressing the points he made, and this was not a problem.
Any contact with the examiner to clarify about the remit of corrections should be via an intermediary.

I interviewed people over the phone (so that I could record the interviews for transcription) for my doctoral research, so it's a perfectly practical and acceptable alternative to face-to-face interviews.

Yanivo, I didn't mean to upset you - all evidence of my left field sense of humour!
Lots of people find it hard to get started, and so the only thing to do is just grit your teeth and get started no matter how you feel. I find often once I get started, I quite enjoy getting the thing written (not always!). Even if you have to discard most or all if what you write, at least you've gotten started.

It's interesting how the PhD is much longer on the Continent, and I really feel that 3 years is not long enough - but that's the way it's organized! You do have to keep the project moving along, and limit the size of the project appropriately - I was going to add in certain things but it wasn't possible (or necessary). It leaves something for postdoctoral research!

Oh yes! Option 8 ;)
Getting onto the more nefarious options
9) Burglary to plant blackmail material in supervisor's/vice-chancellor's office
10) Burglary to plant horse's head on supervisor's/vice-chacellor's pillow
11) Send the boys round to make supervisor an "offer he can't refuse"
12) Arrange a convenient fire in which your literature review is destroyed
......

Well if you can't summon motivation for your own PHD, maybe you shouldn't be doing one? If you're looking for magic answers, you're out of luck.
Otherwise:
1) find a friend in neuroscience who can sneak you into the lab for some transcranial direct current stimulation of your brain
2) find a friend who can source some neuroenhancement drugs eg modafinil
3) find a friend who can write the literature review for you and can be trusted to keep shtum
4) find an online cheating service that will write the literature review for you
5) bribe key people at the university
6) summon a spirit guide and do 96 hours of automatic writing
7) get a job at McDonalds instead

I draw the line at physical violence (just) ;)
Brilliant film that. Do you think there's a market opening for a Thesis Coach? PhD boot camp?

What advice do you really need? Get on with it! Now!

I'm thinking of graduating in absentia, partly because of the cost and partly out of a desire to avoid certain people in the department I can't stand! I've been to a few graduations now, I can take them or leave them.

It makes it a lot more exciting that your data challenge the accepted paradigm. I'd say this is too early to be sharing your data, although clearly there will be a stage when this is necessary.

Courses still running, just by NCRM rather than CASS - just got an email about this:

http://store.southampton.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=5&deptid=8&catid=23&prodid=614

Many universities will fund only if you're presenting, so that's an incentive to get your abstract accepted.