When is the deadline for delay caused by the defendant - six months to bring the claim?
The catalogue records a 6 months period from Day on which the claimant first knows or ought reasonably to know that the belief that the claim would be resolved by agreement was unfounded. This draft page remains free only until its source, worked example and limits are reviewed.
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- Period
- 6 months
- Trigger
- Day on which the claimant first knows or ought reasonably to know that the belief that the claim would be resolved by agreement was unfounded
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- Statutory relief on objective conditions, not a judicial discretion. Never treat it as a general power to extend.
- Section 1(3) is important: 'Any reference in this Act to a limitation period established by this Act does not include a reference to the period described in section 22.' So the s 22 window is not itself capable of being restarted by acknowledgment under s 19 or part payment under s 20, and is not suspended by s 17 or s 18.