Oral Answers to Questions — Personal Injuries (Limitations of Actions)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 23 June 1964.

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Photo of Sir John Hobson Sir John Hobson , Warwick and Leamington 12:00, 23 June 1964

This raises a difficult question. It was considered by the Tucker Committee, which reported in 1949 before the 1954 Act was passed. In general, I would not have said that people who suffered a personal injury were in a situation in which they could not make up their minds whether they ought to issue a writ only—only no more, not to pursue it—within the period of three years from the time when they were injured.