Limitation Period

In Re A Debtor (No 2672 of 2000) (TLR 5 December Ch D)

Section 24 of the Limitation Act 1980 provided ‘An action shall not be brought upon any judgment after the expiration of six years from the date on which the judgment became enforceable’. Although the date of an order for the assessment of costs is an order for the payment of costs which, for some purposes, would take effect as at the date it was pronounced, (for example, it is the starting date for the computation of time limits for the assessment of the costs), the order only becomes enforceable for the purpose of starting the time limit to run, when the costs had been quantified and certified by the process of assessment.