When is the deadline for fatal accidents act - dependants' right to sue where the estate does not?
The catalogue records a 6 months period from Day of the death of the deceased. This draft page remains free only until its source, worked example and limits are reviewed.
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- 6 months
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- Day of the death of the deceased
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- Not a discretion: the right accrues automatically once the six months pass without an action by the estate.
- Added on verification: missing from the researched catalogue. This is a period AFTER which a right arises, not a deadline. The dependants' own outer limits remain s 22(1)(a) and (b). Section 16(3): if an action is brought but not set down for trial within six months after it was begun, the statement of claim may on application be amended to substitute or add the persons for whose benefit it should have been brought.