Spargo v North Essex District Health Authority

[1996] LS Law Med 219

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION

and Mr Justice COLLINS

Limitation — Knowledge — Attributability — Plaintiff released from compulsory admission to mental hospital in November 1981 — Cause of action accruing by time of release — Writ issued 12 years later — Whether plaintiff knew that injury was “attributable” to act or omission alleged to constitute negligence — Whether plaintiff's solicitor took all reasonable steps within meaning of Limitation Act 1980, section 14(3)