Read the full judgment text of CACV 000051/1983 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. We allowed this appeal at the conclusion of the hearing for reasons which we felt might usefully be reduced to writing. Our decision turned purely upon a question of law so that it is necessary to go into the facts no further than to say that the plaintiffs' claim is based upon matters that occurred no later, at least, than the Summer of 1973. Their action then had to be brought before the summer of 1979 : Sec. 4, Limitation Ordinance Cap. 347. The plaintiffs made that date with only a few m