Even before the tougher approach to compliance with rules and practice directions recently adopted by the courts, limitation was the area of the law most likely to cause practitioners sleepless nights. The recent TCC decision in Lincolnshire County Council v Mouchel Business Services has re-enforced the courts’ lack of sympathy for claimants who fail to progress their claim expeditiously, and leave themselves vulnerable to ending up with no remedy at all as a result.
