Limitation of Actions in UK Law
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Doreen Ann Letang (Respondent) Frank Anthony Cooper (Appellant)
... ... 4 Under the Limitation Act, 1939, the period of limitation was six years in all actions founded ... ...
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Paragon Finance Plc v DB Thakerar & Company
... ... 5 In 1994 the Plaintiffs brought two actions, one against Thimbleby & Co. and the other against Thakerar & Co., ... of the relevant transactions, and prima facie any applicable limitation period had expired. The Plaintiffs' applications in the Thimbleby case ... ...
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R (C) v Middlesbrough Council; A v Hoare and other appeals
... ... years before the commencement of proceedings are barred by the Limitation Act 1980. The general rule is that the period of limitation for an action ... by the Limitation Act 1975, which create a different regime for actions for "damages for negligence, nuisance or breach of duty", where the ... ...
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Williams v Central Bank of Nigeria
... ... issue turns wholly on whether they were subject to statutory limitation by virtue of section 21 of the Limitation Act 1980, which deals with time limits for actions in respect of trust property. It is common ground that so far as any of ... ...
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James v Williams
... ... As the judge pointed out the limitation period for an action to recover any land expires after 12 years. Paragraph ... Frank Hinks entitled "Executors de son tort and the limitation of actions" published in The Conveyancer in 1974, contended that this was a case ... ...
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Roberts v Gill & Company and Another
... ... , and to the interpretation and application of section 35 of the Limitation Act 1980 and the rules of court which were enacted pursuant to it, first ... , and Professor A G Guest) issued a Final Report on Limitation of Actions: Cmnd 6923. The Committee had been invited in 1971 to consider what ... ...
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Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Group Plc v Commissioners of Inland Revenue
... ... The main point in this appeal concerns the period of limitation applicable to such claims. But that in turn raises some fundamental ... out (para 96), the focus of the present appeal is on limitation of actions. DMG seeks to avoid the six year time limit by taking advantage of the ... ...
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Birkett v James
... ... for want of prosecution before the expiry of the six year limitation period applicable to his cause of action ... 2 It is only very ... whose daily experience and concern is with the trial of civil actions. They are decisions which involve balancing against one another a variety ... ...
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Horton v Sadler and another
... ... a personal injuries action under what is now section 33 of the Limitation Act 1980 where a claimant had issued proceedings in respect of those ... Limitation in personal injuries actions ... 7 As enacted, section 2(1)(a) of the ... ...
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Anns v Merton London Borough Council
... ... 2. What period of limitation applies to claims by such owners or occupiers against the local ... 3 Procedural issues ... 4 The present actions were begun on 21st February 1972. The plaintiffs are lessees under long ... ...
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