Have I thrown away important old financial and legal paperwork?

[CoralTrout]

I have had a big clear out this weekend and chucked out old bank statements, mortgage statements, car records for cars i no longer own, tax returns older than 6 years and household bill and insurance documents. Very satisfying but now i am panicking I have done the incorrect thing. MSE says to keep indefinitely in case of mis selling. Is this correct? Im poised to fish out of the recycling 🤣. Thank you in advance legal experts!

The limitations Act mostly prevents you from any kind of claim prior to six years ago.with a few exceptions.

however a defence to any claim against you older than six years would be just that.

Why would you put that sort of information in the recycling? Anything at all confidential gets shredded or burned. You have no idea who could get hold of your paperwork and do God knows what with it!

Yes take it out of recycling and annonymise it. You shouldn't put things with identifiable info in recycling. We rip off all names and addresses from our paperwork when we recycle