Limitation Training
Taken from the contents of the accompanying manual.
Limitation Course
- Introduction
- No Limitation at Common Law
- Limitation and Prescription
- Burden and standard of proof
- Pleading
- Following steps
- Strike out
- Preliminary issue
- Trial
- Calculating time
- Date of commencement of proceedings
- Date on which cause of action accrues
Contract claims
- Introduction
- Time period - specialties
- Time period - simple contracts
- Accrual of cause of action in contract – Once and for all breaches
- Contracts for the sale of goods
- Anticipatory breach
- Loans
- Bank accounts
- Guarantees
- Accrual of cause of action in contract – Continuing breaches
- Part payment and acknowledgement
- Debt or other liquidated pecuniary claim
- Acknowledgement
Negligence claims
- Introduction
- Time period
- Accrual of cause of action in negligence
- What is damage?
- Negligence liability where there is no damage
- Professional negligence cases
- Execution of documents
- Negligent valuations
- Where defendant could avert the loss
- Scope of duty of care and damages
- Contingent losses
Latent Damage
- Introduction
- Comparison between personal injury and non-personal injury cases
- Latent damage provisions do not apply in contract
- Limitation periods
- Starting date
- The knowledge required for bringing an action for damages in respect of the relevant damage
- The other facts relevant to the current action
- Attributability
- Knowledge of the identity of tortfeasor
- A right to bring such an action
- Knowledge of legal characterisation irrelevant
- Constructive knowledge
- Long stop date
- Successive owners
Fraud, concealment and mistake
- Introduction
- The fraud of the defendant
- Concealment
- Mistake