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False imprisonmentLiabilityFalse imprisonment consists of the complete deprivation of liberty without a lawful basis. Claims will in practice be made...
The employer’s duty of careThis Practice Note considers the scope of an employer’s common law duty to ensure the safety of their employees with...
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Time limits under the Limitation Act 1980—personal injury claimsThis Practice Note considers the Limitation Act 1980 (LA 1980) and sets out the time limits within which claimants are entitled to bring various claims. In general terms, any claim that is brought after the expiry of the applicable time
Date of knowledge—section 14 of the Limitation Act 1980Actual or constructiveDate of knowledge, defined by section 14 of the Limitation Act 1980 (LA 1980), is in fact a slightly misleading expression because it can arise when a claimant has actual knowledge of the necessary elements of the tort or
The court’s power to extend the time limit—section 33 of the Limitation Act 1980The power to disapply the primary limitation periodWhen dealing with personal injury claims that fall within LA 1980, s 11, the court has a discretion to disapply the primary limitation period even though a claim has not
If a rentcharge is shown as being informally exonerated on title information, does this apply to the current registered owner? Or does the informal exoneration only apply to the parties to the document which informally exonerated the rentcharge?This Q&A considers the situation where, at some
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