Part 2: Limitation Periods Section 8: Restrictions on time limits to bring actions: England and Wales
Subsection (1) introduces Schedule 2, Part 1 which amends the rules governing the court’s discretion to disapply the three-year time limit for bringing claims for personal injuries and deaths as set out in the Limitation Act 1980 (LA); it provides that the limitation period cannot be extended beyond six years, and specifies additional factors to which the court must have particular regard when exercising its discretion. These changes apply only to claims for personal injuries or deaths which are connected with overseas operations.
	Subsection (2) explains that Part 2 of Schedule 2 amends the Foreign Limitation Periods Act 1984. These changes ensure that where foreign limitation periods are to be applied in personal injury and/or death claims connected with overseas operations which are brought in England or Wales, claimants will not benefit from more generous time limits that may be available in that foreign law.