Out of time?
The outcome of a Court of Appeal judgement has the potential to alter the time limit on professional indemnity cases coming to court, meaning old mistakes may never be forgotten. Mike Willis explains.
On 28 February 2002, the House of Lords reviewed an issue which isoften crucial to civil actions and particularly the defence of
professional negligence cases, that of limitation periods and the
definition of 'deliberate concealment'.
The case of Cave v Robinson, Jarvis & Rolf had not been resolved at the
time of going to press, but the key questions the House was asked to
clarify were: what was intended by section 32(2) of the Limitation Act
1980 and what is meant by deliberate concealment?
The
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