Limitation Act 2005

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 The Limitation Act 2005 came into effect in Nov 2005.  Surprisingly, for non-lawyers anyway, there remains a fair amount of uncertainty as to such new scheme’s effect in several important respects, particularly:

  • in terms of the time for claims alleging medical negligence.  This uncertainty is not as to the overall time (which in most case

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 Further to my earlier post, time is now extremely short for birth injury claims, for children born before Nov 2005.

As I have previously posted, the Limitation Act 2005, retrospectively (and without any publicity) shortened the time for claims relating to alleged negligent obstetric (or midwifrey) care, prior to its introduction in November 2005.

Before…