Reference, pending review
Limitation periods and procedural time limits, each with the provision that sets it. Shown as the rule, never as a calculated date for someone's case.
Time limits
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Time limits
Application to the European Court of Human Rights
Reduced from six months by Protocol No. 15.
Time limits
Claims in tort
The general limitation period for tort, other than personal injury and defamation.
Time limits
Claims on a deed
Actions on a specialty, such as a contract made by deed.
Time limits
Claims on a simple contract
Breach of a contract not made by deed.
Time limits
Defamation and malicious falsehood
Subject to the court's discretion to extend.
Time limits
Judicial review
Shorter periods apply to some planning and procurement decisions.
Time limits
Notifying a personal-data breach to the supervisory authority
Unless the breach is unlikely to result in a risk to people's rights and freedoms.
Time limits
Personal injury claims
The court has a discretion to let a late claim proceed (s.33).
Time limits
Recovering land
Actions to recover land.
Time limits
Unfair dismissal complaints
Extended by the ACAS early-conciliation period; later only where it was not reasonably practicable to claim in time.
Areas of law
What we do not have yet
- No legislation in the corpus is tagged with this domain's concepts yet.
- No court decisions in the corpus are tagged with this domain's concepts yet.
A gap is reported, not hidden: an empty section here means nothing is loaded, not that nothing exists.
Sources Limitation statutes and rules of court