Limitation Periods

This is a guide for the busy practitioner, unfamiliar with this area of litigation, together with an examination of the subject for use in courts of all types. The basic propositions of the law are stated and there is also an examination of the problems generated by the ambiguities of the statutory provisions and case-law. An account is given of the Limitation Act 1980 together with all the significant developments including the Latent Damage Act 1986, the Consumer Protection Act 1988 and the House of Lords decision in the Pirelli vs Oscar Faber 1983. The case-law and statutoru provisions covering all aspects of limitation and the procedural issues directly concerned with the substansive law are considered. Also considered are actions in the European Court of Justice and the various Carrriage Statutes which incorporate the time limits of the International Carriage Conventions.