The Weekly Law Reports
[2020] 1 WLR 4638
Court of Appeal
*Holt v Holley & Steer Solicitors
[2020] EWCA Civ 851
2020 June 24; July 7
McCombe, King LJJ, Keehan J
Limitation of action— Negligence— Accrual of cause of action— Solicitors instructed by wife to act in financial remedy proceedings failing to obtain expert evidence as to value of matrimonial assets— Wife bringing claim in negligence against solicitors more than six years after final hearing but less than six years after making of financial remedy order— Whether claim time-barred— When wife’s cause of action accruing—
Limitation Act 1980 (c 58), s 2