Since the turn of the century the Dutch Supreme court delivers yearly two or three compelling decisions regarding the rules on prescription of tort claims. Prescription is the legal defence that bars civil actions on a claim after the expiry of a certain amount of time. Due to these ongoing developments in case law the rules and limits of the legal institution of prescription are rapidly changing. Seeing that the doctrine of prescription aims to serve legal certainty, one may consider this as striking. An overview firstly shows a flexible interpretation and relativisation of the rules on prescription in Dutch tort law … (more)
[Anne Keirse and Emanuel van Dongen, UCALL Blog, 16 October 2024]
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