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Williams v Fanshaw Porter & Hazelhurst

[2004] EWCA Civ 157
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
Year2004
Statusunclear

Key Principle

Constructive knowledge asks what a reasonable person in the claimant’s position could have discovered with reasonable diligence.

Area of Law

Civil Procedure — limitation-knowledge

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