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Limitation Periods, 7th Edition

Limitation Periods, 7th Edition

Author: Professor Andrew McGee
Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell U.K.
ISBN: 9780414028630
Published In: July 2014
Format: Hardback
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Limitation Periods steers practitioners through the complexities of the law of limitations, giving detailed guidance in all areas of law from preliminary issues to proceedings. The leading title in the field and now into its 7th edition, Limitation Periods also covers European and International limitation issues.

The passage of four years since the last edition has produced a crop of cases considering, and deciding, important points in limitation.

Identifies aspects of EU Law and Human Rights Law, which continue to generate case law. This includes Bedford v Bedfordshire CC on extensions of time under the HRA and the latest instalment of the Franked Investment Income Litigation on retrospective curtailments of the limitation period.
Features interesting cases from real property dealing with, among other things, mistakes on the Register (Parshall v Hackney) and limitation in relation to the river bed (Couper v Albion Properties Ltd).
Updated Section 21, this time from the Supreme Court, which in the important case of Williams v Central Bank of Nigeria, restricted the scope of the unlimited time given to bring an action under section 21(1), thereby resolving a controversy of some antiquity.
Discusses the possible end of attempts to use section 21 as a way of evading the section 2 limitation period by characterising many tort cases as involving breaches of fiduciary duty.
Refers to Philips & Co v Bath Housing Co-operative Ltd, which came to an important conclusion about the meaning of "debt or other liquidated pecuniary claim" in relation to a solicitor's bill of costs.
Covers Chandra v Brooke North and D&G Cars Ltd v Essex Police Authority, which both considered yet again the notion of an action arising out of the same set of facts as an existing claim for the purposes of section 35. Also refers to Nemeti v Sabre Insurance Company which dealt with the circumstances in which the substitution of a party is necessary for the continuance of the original action.
Includes Bach v Davis, where enforcement of judgments was considered, whilst Morrisons v Mastercardconcerned the use of a procedural device to allow an application to amend to be treated as having been made in time.
Features the Foreign Limitation Periods Act, which was before the court in Bank St Petersburg v Archangelsky.

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Provides guidance on time limitations in all areas of law, from preliminary issues to proceedings.
In a notoriously complex and confusing area of law, this title cuts through the complexity to focus on what you need to know, saving you research and planning time.

Definition, background and policy
The running and expiry of time
The relevance of the remedy
Categorisation
Actions founded on tort
The Latent Damage Act 1986
The Consumer Protection Act 1987
Personal Injuries and Defamation
Judicial review and other Crown proceedings
Accrual of cause of action in contract
Actions to recover sums due under statute
Personal property
Real property
Trustees and personal representatives
Contribution
Arbitration
Miscellaneous cases
Acknowledgment and part-payment
Disability
Fraud, concealment and mistake
Pleading questions
Procedural delays
General
The Merchant Shipping Act 1995
The Foreign Limitation Periods Act 1984
The Carriage Statutes
Other Statutes

Professor Andrew McGee is a Barrister of King Street Chambers, Manchester, and Professor of Law at the University of Manchester. Author of the previous five editions and a renowned authority in this field.