By way of an overview, the Bill will: • extend the scope of the five-year prescription in a number of respects (sections 1 -3); 2 Scottish Law Commission Report on Prescription, December 2017 https://www.scotlawcom.gov.uk/files/3414/9978/5138/Report_on_Prescripti on_Report_No_247.pdf 2 This document relates to the Prescription (Scotland) Bill (SP Bill 26) as introduced in the Scottish Parliament on 8 February 2018 • reform the so-called discoverability test in section 11(3) of the 1973 Act relating to the state of knowledge of a creditor in cases of latent damage (section 5); • set the start date...