{"id":112,"date":"2004-06-21T21:59:19","date_gmt":"2004-06-21T21:59:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-06-21T21:59:19","modified_gmt":"2004-06-21T21:59:19","slug":"adams-v-bracknell-forest-borough-council-2004-hl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"Adams v Bracknell Forest Borough Council [2004] HL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[Tort \u2013 time limit of 3 years applied as C could reasonably have been expected to be curious about his injury, dyslexia does not prevent that]<\/strong> <br \/><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana\">D, the local authority where C went to school. C was dyslexic but this was not diagnosed and so he received no special teaching. C grew up with limited reading and writing skills and as a result, he suffered psychological problems and was disadvantaged in the employment market. He met an educational psychologist 16 years later, and he was advised he had a cause of action against the authority, so he sued. C claimed that his cause of action would only be time-barred&nbsp;from when he knew he had a case.&nbsp;<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Held<\/strong>: There was no reason why C should not have been curious about his &#8216;injury&#8217; and he could have consulted his doctor and a solicitor. Therefore, s 11 of the Limitation Act 1980 which sets a time limit of 3 years for actions involving personal injury could not be extended. <strong><u><em>Phelps v London Borough of Hillingdon<\/em> [2000] HL<\/u><\/strong> and Robinson v <strong><u><em>St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council<\/em> [2002] (CA)<\/u><\/strong> approved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>C lost<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Tort \u2013 time limit of 3 years applied as C could reasonably have been expected to be curious about his injury, dyslexia does not prevent that] D, the local authority where C went to school. C was dyslexic but this was not diagnosed and so he received no special teaching. C grew up with limited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}