The Weekly Law Reports
[2008] 1 WLR 1188
Court of Appeal
*O’Byrne v Aventis Pasteur MSD Ltd
[2007] EWCA Civ 966
2007 July 16;
17;
Oct 9
Sir Anthony Clarke MR, Arden and Moore-Bick LJJ
Practice— Parties— Substitution— Action brought against wrongly identified manufacturer— Whether power to allow substitution of defendant after expiry of long-stop ten-year period— Whether power existing where party wrongly identified— Whether substitution “necessary”— Whether substitution to be allowed—
Limitation Act 1980 (c 58), ss 11A(3) (as inserted by Consumer Protection Act 1987 (c 43), s 6, Sch 1), 35(4)(5)(6)
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CPR r 19.5(2)(3)
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Council Directive 85/374/EEC, art 11