Adelson and another v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2007] EWCA (Civ) 701
“A court would only grant an order substituting a party to an action after the expiry of the limitation period, pursuant to CPR r 19.5, on the ground that there had been a mistake in relation to the name of a party, if it was shown that the person who had made the mistake was the person responsible for the issue of the claim form and that, had the mistake not been made, the new party would have been named in the pleading.”
WLR Daily, 11th July 2007
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