The Weekly Law Reports
[2023] 3 WLR 963
Supreme Court
Potter
v
Canada Square Operations Ltd
[2023] UKSC 41
2022 June 14 15; 2023 Nov 15
Lord Reed PSC, Lord Hodge DPSC, Lord Sales, Lord Lloyd-Jones JJSC, Lord Kitchin
Limitation of action— Breach of duty— Concealment of facts— Credit relationship between claimant and defendant unfair because of defendant’s failure to disclose fact and extent of commission payment— Claimant becoming aware of commission payment more than six years after end of credit relationship— Whether claimant’s claim for statutory remedy time-barred— Whether commencement of limitation period postponed on basis that facts “deliberately concealed” by defendant— Whether non-disclosure of commission amounting to concealment— Whether defendant deliberately committing “breach of duty” so as to give rise to concealment— Whether recklessness sufficient to establish requisite mental element of deliberateness—
Consumer Credit Act 1974 (c 39), s 140A
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Limitation Act 1980 (c 58), s 32(1)(2)