NOTE 9.  Add: Cattley v Pollard [2006] EWHC 3130 (Ch), [2007] 2 All E.R. 1086 at [149].

END SENTENCE AFTER NOTE 9 AND ADD THE FOLLOWING NEW SENTENCE:  The defence of laches can potentially apply even if the Limitation Act 1980 makes it clear that no statutory period of limitation applies: Re Loftus (deceased) [2006] EWCA Civ 1124, [2007] 1 W.L.R. 591 at [40]-[41], disapproving apparently contrary observations in Gwembe Valley Development Co Ltd v Koshy [2003] EWCA Civ 1478 at [140]; see also Cattley v Pollard [2006] EWHC 3130 (Ch), [2007] 2 All E.R. 1086 at [151]; Patel v Shah [2005] EWCA Civ 157 at [22].