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timeYou may have heard or seen the adverts: Have you had an accident in the last three years that wasn’t your fault? – So what is this three years they talk about? It’s called the Limitation Period, covered under British law as the Limitation Act 1980.

What it means is that in most accident claims you have three years from the date of the accident for proceedings to be issued or the claim becomes statute barred meaning a claim cannot be initiated or continued unless you have obtained special permission from the court.
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