Fletcher v Sheffield Health Authority

(1994) 5 Med LR 156

COURT OF APPEAL

Lord Justice HENRY, and Lord Justice MILLETT

Limitation — Knowledge — Constructive knowledge — Necessity for expert medical opinion — Whether judge correctly found substantial degree of overlap between evidence on separate issues of limitations and negligence — Whether defendants were right in claiming that expert evidence relevant to limitation would fall within comparatively narrow compass — RSC Order 33 rule 3 — Limitation Act 1980