This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Intervention). The objectives are as follows:

To review the time to withdrawal, remission and first seizure of 10 antiepileptic drugs (carbamazepine, phenytoin, valproate, phenobarbitone, oxcarbazepine, lamotrigine, gabapentin, topiramate, levetiracetam, zonisamide) currently used as monotherapy in children and adults with partial onset seizures or generalised tonic‐clonic seizures with or without other generalised seizure types.