The Court of Appeal decision in Watkins v Jones Maidment Wilson was handed down on 4 March 2008. In 2006 the House of Lords in Law Society v Sephton raised the prospect of claimants having wide scope to litigate stale claims, and Watkins enters the difficult territory of how those principles are to be applied in practice. The claimants in Watkins relied on Sephton and the earlier Lords case of Nykredit, but the decision suggests that in many cases the courts will remain reluctant to indulge claimants who delay.