Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Bill 2013

Public bill · Private Member · Introduced

The measure would give women who underwent symphysiotomy or pubiotomy without medical justification a one-year opportunity to bring personal-injury or negligence claims, even if the usual time limit had expired. It recognises that many survivors learned only decades later what had been done and that it may have caused serious harm. They would still have to prove their cases, and courts could dismiss claims where the delay made that necessary in the interests of fairness.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to provide that certain persons shall be under a disability for the purpose of bringing actions relating to symphysiotomy and pubiotomy performed on them without medical justification, for that purpose to amend the statute of limitations, 1957, and to provide for matters connected therewith

Last updated 25 April 2018