Slevin v Southampton and SW Hampshire Health Authority

[1997] LS Law Med 175

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION

and Mr Justice MANTELL

Limitation — Knowledge — Actual and constructive knowledge — Action separated from events giving rise to it by 26 years — Date when plaintiff had actual and constructive knowledge under Limitation Act 1980 — Whether fact relevant to plaintiff's right of action deliberately concealed from her or her parents — Whether equitable to allow action to proceed under sect 33