Category: limitations

O’Byrne v Aventis Pasteur MSD Ltd – WLR Daily

Posted May 28th, 2010 in consumer protection, defective goods, law reports, limitations, Supreme Court by sally

O’Byrne v Aventis Pasteur MSD Ltd [2010] UKSC 23; [2010] WLR (D) 137

 “In a claim under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 based on the rights conferred under Council Directive 85/374/EEC concerning liability for defective products, which by art 11 required proceedings to be brought against the producer within ten years of the product being put into circulation, domestic law could not allow the producer to be substituted as the defendant outside that period in place of a wholly-owned subsidiary (who was the supplier but had been erroneously thought to be the producer) unless the parent company had actually determined when the supplier put the product in circulation.”

WLR Daily, 27th May 2010

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Roberts v Gill & Co – WLR Daily

Posted May 24th, 2010 in civil procedure rules, derivative claims, law reports, limitations, Supreme Court, wills by sally

Roberts v Gill & Co [2010] UKSC 22; [2010] WLR (D) 130

“A beneficiary under a will who had commenced proceedings against solicitors he alleged had acted negligently in connection with the estate could not, after the relevant limitation period had expired, amend his claim so as to also claim on behalf of the estate by way of a derivative action.”

WLR Daily, 21st May 2010

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Bradford & Bingley plc v Ashcroft – WLR Daily

Posted March 12th, 2010 in appeals, debts, law reports, limitations, mortgages by sally

Bradford & Bingley plc v Ashcroft [2010] EWCA Civ 223; [2010] WLR (D) 74

 “There was no need to re-analyse a part-payment of a mortgage debt or to put a gloss on it in terms of acknowledgment for the purposes of calculating whether or not the limitation period had expired because s 29(5) of the Limitation Act 1980 made provision for a freestanding mechanism for the computation of time.”

WLR Daily, 11th March 2010

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Regina (Smith) v Land Registry – WLR Daily

Posted March 12th, 2010 in adverse possession, appeals, law reports, limitations, roads by sally

Regina (Smith) v Land Registry [2010] EWCA Civ 200; [2010] WLR (D) 72

“Title to land over which a public highway runs could not be acquired by adverse possession.”

WLR Daily, 11th March 2010

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National Ability SA v Tinna Oils & Chemicals Ltd – WLR Daily

Posted December 17th, 2009 in arbitration, enforcement, law reports, limitations by sally

National Ability SA v Tinna Oils & Chemicals Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 1330; [2009] WLR (D) 36

“An application to enforce an arbitration award in the same manner as a judgment under the procedure set out in s 26 of the Arbitration Act 1950 and s 66 of the Arbitration Act 1996 was subject to the same limitation period of six years under s 7 of the Limitation Act 1980 as an ordinary action on the award.”

WLR Daily, 14th December 2009

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Aventis Pasteur SA v OB – WLR Daily

Posted December 4th, 2009 in consumer protection, defective goods, EC law, law reports, limitations by sally

Aventis Pasteur SA v OB (Case C-358/08); [2009] WLR (D) 352

“The Community Directive on liability for defective products normally precluded a producer of a product from being substituted, after the expiry of the 10-year limitation period, for a defendant who had been sued within that period.”

WLR Daily, 3rd December 2009

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Azaz v Denton – WLR Daily

Posted July 27th, 2009 in law reports, limitations, personal injuries by sally

Azaz v Denton [2009] EWHC 1759 (QB); [2009] WLR (D) 256

WLR Daily, 24th July 2009

“The three-year limitation period under s 11 of the Limitation Act 1980 applied to the whole action where a claim for damages for personal injuries was one of a number of claims.”

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Pickthall Ltd v Hill Dickinson LLP and another – WLR Daily

Posted June 15th, 2009 in abuse of process, assignment, law reports, limitations, pleadings, striking out by sally

Pickthall Ltd v Hill Dickinson LLP and another [2009] EWCA Civ 543; [2009] WLR (D) 183

“It was an abuse of process for a party to issue proceedings on the day before the limitation period expired in the knowledge that the cause of action was vested not in him but in his trustee in bankruptcy, despite the party’s intention of later seeking an assignment of the cause of action and amending the claim form so that the assignment (which had been obtained after the expiration of the limitation period) could be pleaded.”

WLR Daily, 12th June 2009

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AB and Others v Ministry of Defence – Times Law Reports

Posted June 10th, 2009 in law reports, limitations, personal injuries by sally

AB and Others v Ministry of Defence

Queen’s Bench Division

“Claims for compensation by former servicemen in relation to exposure to ionising radiation as a result of nuclear tests carried out in the 1950s were not to be struck out either as time-barred or as having no reasonable prospect of success.”

The Times, 10th June 2009

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AB and others v Ministry of Defence – WLR Daily

Posted June 9th, 2009 in class actions, law reports, limitations, personal injuries by sally

AB and others v Ministry of Defence [2009] EWHC 1225 (QB); [2009] WLR (D) 174

“In relation to a group action the issue as to when a claimant had “knowledge” for the purposes of ss 12 and 14 of the Limitation Act 1980 was primarily one of fact The state of the claimant’s belief was to be considered, as also whether he thought it necessary to refer his belief to experts, medical or legal, or others. In relation to words used by a witness when being asked about his state of mind at a particular time in the past, his actions (or inactions) at the time about which he was being asked might require the words used or accepted in evidence to be viewed with circumspection.”

WLR Daily, 8th June 2009

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In re Overnight Ltd Goldfarb v Higgins and Another – Times Law Reports

Posted April 2nd, 2009 in fraudulent trading, law reports, limitations, winding up by sally

In re Overnight Ltd Goldfarb v Higgins and Another

Chancery Division

“The cause of action for fraudulent trading under section 213 of the Insolvency Act 1986 accrued on the making of the winding-up order.”

The Times, 2nd April 2009

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In re Overnight Ltd; Goldfarb v Higgins and others – WLR Daily

Posted February 13th, 2009 in fraudulent trading, law reports, limitations, winding up by sally

In re Overnight Ltd; Goldfarb v Higgins and others; [2009] WLR (D) 49

“The cause of action for fraudulent trading under s 213 of the Insolvency Act 1986 arose on the day the winding up order was made and not when either the petition was presented or the provisional liquidator appointed.”

WLR Daily, 12th February 2009

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Yorkshire Bank Finance Ltd v Mulhall and Another – WLR Daily

Posted October 27th, 2008 in charging orders, law reports, limitations by sally

Yorkshire Bank Finance Ltd v Mulhall and Another: [2008] EWCA Civ 1156; [2008] WLR (D) 330

“No provision in the Limitation Act 1980 prevented the enforcement in 2007 of a charging order over land made in 1990 to secure a judgment debt though no attempt at enforcement had been made in the interim.”

WLR Daily, 24th October 2008

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Spencer v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions; Moore v Secretary of State for Transport and Another – Times Law Reports

Posted July 24th, 2008 in law reports, limitations, personal injuries by sally

Spencer v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions; Moore v Secretary of State for Transport and Another

Court of Appeal

“A cause of action for damages against the government for failure to implement Community law resulting in failure to provide a remedy in a personal injury case accrued as soon as some measurable damage had been suffered The Court of Appeal so stated when dismissing the appeals of: (i) Derek Keith Spencer against the dismissal of his claim by Mr Justice Holland ([2007] EWHC 1775 (QB)) and (ii) Kenneth Dudley Moore against the dismissal of his claim by Mr Justice Eady ([2007] EWHC 879 (QB)).”

The Times, 24th July 2008

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A v Hoare (No 2) – WLR Daily

Posted July 10th, 2008 in law reports, limitations, personal injuries, sexual offences by sally

A v Hoare (No 2) [2008] EWHC 1573 (QB); [2008] WLR (D) 230

“In considering the factors relevant to the exercise of the court’s discretion under s 33 of the Limitation Act 1980 to extend the limitation period beyond that specified in s 11 of the Act, the reasons for the delay in issuing proceedings, and its potentially prejudicial effect, mattered more than the length of the delay, and it was reasonable to delay on account of the defendant’s impecuniosity.”

WLR Daily, 9th July 2008

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Spencer v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions; Moore v Secretary of State for Transport and another – WLR Daily

Posted July 3rd, 2008 in damages, EC law, law reports, limitations, personal injuries by sally

Spencer v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions; Moore v Secretary of State for Transport and another [2008] EWCA Civ 750; [2008] WLR (D) 218

“A cause of action for damages against the Government for failure to implement Community law and provide a remedy in a personal injury case accrued as soon as some measurable damage had been suffered.”

WLR Daily, 2nd July 2008

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Giles v Rhind and Another (No 2) – Times Law Reports

Posted March 25th, 2008 in jurisdiction, law reports, limitations by sally

Giles v Rhind and Another (No 2)

Court of Appeal

“The court had power to extend the limitation period where a party, allegedly in breach of duty, had entered into a transaction defrauding creditors.”

The Times, 25th March 2008

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Legal Services Commission v Rasool – WLR Daily

Posted March 7th, 2008 in costs, law reports, legal aid, limitations by sally

Legal Services Commission v Rasool [2008] EWCA Civ 154; WLR (D) 75

“For the purposes of limitation and ascertaining the date of accrual of a cause of action permitting the Legal Services Commission to recover costs following revocation of a legal aid certificate, it was not a condition precedent that the quantum of any such costs should first be established before time started to run.”

WLR Daily, 6th March 2008

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O’Byrne v Aventis Pasteur MSD Ltd – WLR Daily

Posted October 11th, 2007 in law reports, limitations, substitution by sally

O’Byrne v Aventis Pasteur MSD Ltd [2007] EWCA Civ 939

“A party could be substituted under s 35 of the Limitation Act 1980 where the ten-year limitation period for making a claim for damage caused by a defective product had expired, even where the correct party was known to the claimant before the limitation period expired, if the claimant had made a mistake about the name of the defendant and substitution was necessary for the purpose of determining the original action.”

WLR Daily, 10th October 2007

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Adelson and Another v. Associated Newspapers Ltd. – Times Law Reports

Posted July 18th, 2007 in law reports, limitations, substitution by sally

Addition of parties is not same as substitution

Adelson and Another v. Associated Newspapers Ltd.

Court of Appeal

“An order would be made substituting a party to an action after the expiry of the limitation period on the ground that there had been a mistake in relation to the name of a party only if the person who had made the mistake was the person responsible for the issue of the claim form and, had the mistake not been made, the new party would have been named in the pleading.”

The Times, 18th July 2007

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