The Law of Limitation

Gerard McMeel, Barrister, University of Manchester / Guildhall Chambers, Bristol

Gerard McMeel is a Professor of Law at University of Manchester, and a member of Guildhall Chambers, Bristol, as well as a door tenant at Quadrant Chambers in London. He is the author of The Construction of Contracts 2e (OUP, 2011), a co-editor of McMeel and Virgo on Financial Advice and Financial Products 2e Looseleaf (OUP, 2007).
Guildhall Chambers in Bristol has a national reputation as a leading Barristers Chambers, and specialist teams in Commercial Litigation (including professional negligence); Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence; Insolvency; and Property. Expert practitioners from the Chambers will address the role of limitation in their specialist fields.

Introduction
1. Background (including Historical Introduction), Henry Stevens and Daisy Brown
2. Calculating Time, Henry Stevens and Daisy Brown
Statutory limitation and general categories of claim
3. Claims in Tort: General Principles, Adrian Palmer QC and John Virgo
4. Claims in Tort: Personal Injury, Adrian Palmer QC, Julian Benson and Oliver Moore
5. Claims in Tort: Fatal Accidents Act, Adrian Palmer QC, Julian Benson and Oliver Moore
6. Claims in Tort: Defective Products, Adrian Palmer QC, Julian Benson and Oliver Moore
7. Claims in Tort: Defamation and Malicious Falsehood, Adrian Palmer QC
8. Claims in Tort: Exclusion of Time Limit in Personal Injury Cases, Adrian Palmer QC, Julian Benson and Oliver Moore
9. Claims in Tort: Extending Time in Property Damage and Financial Loss Cases, Adrian Palmer QC and John Virgo
10. Claims for Breach of Contract, Ross Fentem and Holly Doyle
11. Claims in Unjust Enrichment and Restitution, Neil Levy, Gerard McMeel and Nicholas Briggs
12. Equitable Claims and Laches, Raj Sahonte and Simon Passfield
13. Claims under Statute, John Virgo
14. Claims in Respect of Personal Property, Gerard McMeel and Nicholas Briggs
15. Claims in Respect of Real Property: General, George Newsom, Ewan Paton and Michael Selway
16. Claims in Respect of Real Property: Mortgages and Charges, George Newsom, Raj Sahonte and Michael Selway
17. Claims for Contribution and Indemnity, Simon Passfield and Holly Doyle
18. Claims in Public Law: Judicial Review and the Human Rights Act, Kerry Barker
FACTORS POSTPONING OR EXTENDING TIME
19. Acknowledgement and Part Payment, George Newsom, Raj Sahonte and Michael Selway
20. Factors Postponing Time (1): Fraud and Deliberate Concealment, John Virgo and Holly Doyle
21. Factors Postponing Time (2): Claims based on a Mistake, Neil Levy and Gerard McMeel
22. Extending Time: Disability, Adrian Palmer QC, Julian Benson and Oliver Moore
LIMITATION IN CONTEXT
23. Limitation and Banking: Loans, Overdrafts and Guarantees, Neil Levy and Ross Fentem
24. Limitation and the Administration of Estates, Malcolm Warner
25. Limitation : Employment and Discrimination, The Guildhall Chambers Employment Team
26. Limitation and Companies: Dissolution, Restoration and other Orders, Stephen Davies QC, Jeremy Bamford and Daisy Brown
27. Limitation and Insolvency, Stephen Davies QC, Jeremy Bamford and Stefan Ramel
28. Limitation and Arbitration, William Batstone and Gerard McMeel
MISCELLANEOUS REGIMES
29. The Merchant Shipping Act, Gerard McMeel
30. The Foreign Limitation Periods Act, Stefan Ramel
31. International Transport Conventions, Gerard McMeel
32. Other Statutory Limitation Periods, Henry Stevens and Lucy Walker
33. Contractual and Other Time Bars, Gerard McMeel
PRACTICAL MATTERS
34. Practice and Procedure, Gerard McMeel
APPENDIX: STATUTORY MATERIALS
Limitation Act 1980
Foreign Limitation Periods Act
Relevant Provisions of the Civil Procedure Rules