Oakes v Hopcroft

[2000] LS Law Med 394

COURT OF APPEAL

Lord Woolf CJ, Lord Justice WALLER, and Lord Justice CLARKE

Limitation — Section 14A of the Limitation Act 1980 — Negligence of medical expert in reporting injuries in PI claim — Economic loss claim for disadvantageous settlement of claim — Date of knowledge — Definition of act or omission alleged to constitute negligence — Whether knowledge of greater injury than reported establishes knowledge for economic loss claim