The Business Law Reports
[2008] Bus LR 993
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), s 11A(3) (as inserted by Consumer Protection Act 1987 (c 43), s 6(6), Sch 1, para 1), s 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