LATE (BUT NOT VERY LATE) AMENDMENTS ALLOWED: LIMITATION DEFENCE WAS NOT “MUCKING AROUND AT THE LAST MOMENT”

In Vilca & Ors v XSTRATA Ltd & Anor [2017] EWHC 2096 (QB) Mr Justice Stuart Smith allowed a late, but not "very late" application by the defendant to allow it to plead limitation.
"To my mind...  all of the modern authorities can best be seen as applications of the principles inherent in the...

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